Image by Giuseppe Follachio

‘The body is a sacred place, because it bursts with life, and lasts briefly’
- Etel Adnan

the body symphonic is a solo performance-concert that observes the body as a site of resistance, an engaged body which journeys through rituals of excavation – revealing new and unbound mythologies and allowing for a limitless agency of self-representation and rootedness.


Created in response to the multiple political and geopolitical crises in Lebanon – this work is a meditation on the body’s place in the struggle against occupation, where looking back, looking in, and looking forward become strategies of steadfastness and liberation.

The body is a site of being. 

It is matter that is shaped, deformed, that ascends and emerges.
It is a site of revolution, of oppression.
Of representation and mis-representation.
Of wholeness and fragmentation.
It is the surface where ideas and action meet.
It is the container of manifestos, of traumas, 
of unanswered questions and fragile answers.
The body has never crystallized.
It is always becoming.
Over and over again.

*All performances of the body symphonic will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Choreography, Performance, Live Music: Charlie Khalil Prince
Joss Turnbull: Additional Music
Dramaturgy: Erin Hill
Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur