Fisher Center LAB International Festival
Choreography of State
Tania El Khoury
December 4–6
Fisher Center LAB International Festival
December 4–6
Tania El Khoury invited six women choreographers from diverse practices around the world to create dance notations that analyze power structures and violence perpetrated by the state. The resulting multimedia installation and performance approaches choreography as a counterforensic practice, exposing systems of militarized police training shaped by racialized surveillance, spatial exclusion, and the pacification of resistance. Taking cues from protests, the installation includes videos of movement scores of resistance to be activated by performers and embodied by the audience in a celebration of self-defense.
Featuring scores by luciana achugar, Rashida Bumbray, Emily Johnson, Nissa Nishikawa, Bhenji Ra, and Farah Saleh.
Tania El Khoury Artist, Director
Participating Choreographers
luciana achugar, Rashida Bumbray, Emily Johnson, Nissa Nishikawa, Bhenji Ra, Farah Saleh
Dancers
Carol Montealegre, Nissa Nishikawa, Brandi Norton, Miriam Parker, Tara-Jo Tashna, Tania El Khoury
Khyam Allami Composer
Abir Saksouk Set Design
Rana Feghali Costume Design
Haitham Haddad Graphic Design
Petra Serhal, Dalia Naous Dramaturgical Support
Ali BeidounVideo Editor, Consultant
Mohamed Ali Agrebi Lights consultant
Tania El Khoury is a live artist who creates interactive installations and performances that generate knowledge and alternative narratives, while reflecting on the production of collective memory and the cultivation of solidarity. Her practice is activated through tactile, auditory, and visual materials collected and curated by the artist and her collaborators, and ultimately transformed through audience interaction. Her work has been translated into multiple languages and shown in 35 countries across six continents in spaces ranging from national museums to the Mediterranean Sea. She is the recipient of the Creative Capital Award, Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Soros Art Fellowship, the Bessie Outstanding Production Award, the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award. Tania is a Distinguished Artist in Residence and Associate Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College in New York, where she is also the founding director of the Center for Human Rights & the Arts. She is a founding member of the urban research and live art collective in Lebanon, Dictaphone Group.
Choreography of State was co-produced by Fisher Center LAB and Chaillot – Théâtre National de la Danse, Paris, with support from Creative Capital Foundation.
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