TAKWEEN ’10- Beirut Contemporary Dance School

Created and organized by MAQAMAT DANCE THEATRE

In partnership with SASHA WALTZ & GUESTS and SAREYYET RAMALLAH

In Collaboration with DANSGROEP AMSTERDAM & MANCOPY DANSKOMPAGNI

Interested applicants should have a good level and knowledge of contemporary dance and are

Choreographers and Guest Speakers

Krisztina de Chatel • Marco Cantalupo • Luc Dunberry • Omar Rajeh • Radhouane El Meddeb • Jens Bjerregaard • Mia Habis • Rabih Mroue • Damien Jalet • Ghassan Salhab • Walid Sadek • Francesco Scavetta • Vahid • and Pierre Abi Saab •

Classes Offered will focus on contemporary release Technique • Physical theatre • Contact Improvisation • Composition and Choreography • Improvisation skills • Movement analysis • Dance Theories and concepts • Performance Making • Video Dance • Contemporary arts

Dates: 5th of September until the mid of December 2010 in Beirut.


Brief Summary

Takween-Beirut Contemporary Dance School (BCDC) is an annual, three-month intensive contemporary dance-training program for young dancers and performance artists interested in pursuing professional careers. Mostly attracting students from the Levant, the program consists of rigorous physical classes alongside courses in choreographic composition and conceptual thinking, which are given by renowned local and international artists, dancers and choreographers. Stemming from a regional lack of educational facilities and instruction and professional opportunity, Takween–BCDC not only provides its participants with the training and discipline needed to professionally establish themselves, but also with a platform for cultural cooperation and exchange necessary for them to become leaders and entrepreneurs in the long-term development and institutionalization of dance as an influential social and cultural practice; thus creating an artistic foundation to begin forging communal dialogue, social bonds and civil change.