NIVINE KALLAS

FāSL explores the connections between the diacritical marks of the Arabic language and bodily movement, paying particular attention to the contexts in which these connections emerge. Using a formal language of infinite variations, Lebanese artist Nivine Kallas dances with words and writes with movement. She brings words, signs and bodily movements into resonance and plays with silence. Wearing headphones, sharing 1970s and 1980s Arabic pop with the audience and surrounded by projected drawings, she moves freely between states of being, improvising with ease and inviting the public into her inner world.

Nivine Kallas is a choreographer, actress and Gùnshǒu. She holds a degree in Dramatic Art from the Lebanese University of Fine Arts. In 2002, Nivine professionalized in traditional and modern dance with the Caracalla company, the most prominent dance theater in the Middle East since 1968. She launched Tarantism in 2021 in Beirut, a type of experimental dance. Today, her new creation FāSL weaves the links between the Arabic language and body movement, which continues to tour in France and Europe. Currently, her new show questions the behavioral repression of an outdated educational system.

Choreography and performance Nivine Kallas / Dramaturgy Mounzer Baalbaki
Coproduction Charleroi danse – Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, UNESCO BERYT, Hammana Artist House, A.mal.gam.