2024 Movement Research Festival presents Charlie Prince
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Movement Research
The Movement Research Festival returns with events happening over two weeks, February 28-March 9, 2024. The 2024 Festival is curated by Marýa Wethers, Director of the GPS/Global Practice Sharing Program at Movement Research, with a focus on the artists and partnerships developed through MR’s GPS MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Exchange Program. The Festival features performances at Movement Research at the Judson Church and Danspace Project, artist talks (GPS Chats and Studies Project), and movement workshops led by festival artists.
The program on Saturday, March 9, features Charlie Prince (Lebanon).
Cosmic A* (2021), created and performed by Charlie Prince, is a 45-minute solo performance concert that observes the body as an archaeological space, and engages this body in rituals of excavation, revealing new and unbound mythologies, allowing for a limitless agency of self-representation and rootedness. Created in response to the multiple crises in Lebanon between 2019 and 2021, this new stripped-down version for the MR Festival is a meditation on the last three years, looking back, looking in and forward as a transposition of the work for a different context and time.
Charlie Prince is a Lebanese dance and performance artist. His interests are rooted in the intersection of the political and the poetic body, and the many profound resonances this may create. His transdisciplinary choreographic work and installations have been presented in several major festivals and theaters, including Impulstanz (Austria) SPRING Festival (Netherlands), Dansmakers Amsterdam, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (France), Vancouver International Dance Festival, Oktoberdans (Norway), Fabbrica Europa (Italy), and BIPOD (Lebanon). Prince holds a Bachelor of Music from McGill University in Montréal and continues to engage as a composer in his artistic practice. In 2018 he received the Boghossian Foundation Prize for Dance and Performance awarded by Villa Empain in Brussels and Beirut. He was also an APAP 2020 artist supported by the European Union Commission for Culture from 2017 to 2020.
The GPS/Global Practice Sharing program provides a platform for the international exchange of ideas, processes, and reflective practices surrounding dance and movement-based forms between the U.S. and independent performing arts communities internationally. GPS posits that dialogue across differences necessarily catalyzes the generation of new knowledge and creative innovation. By investing in the mobility of artists, curators, and cultural workers, GPS advances cross-cultural understanding and the development of the contemporary arts field at large. Officially established in 2016, GPS consists of an informal network of partners currently supporting exchange projects in Eastern and Central Europe (ECE) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
All events are FREE and open to the public. Advance reservations required at: https://movementresearch.org/events/series/festival/.
