the body symphonic - Charlie Khalil Prince

the body symphonic is a solo performance in concert format where choreographer Charlie Khalil Prince and percussionist Joss Turnbull blur the boundary between dance and musical performance. Through movement, live music, recorded voices and field sounds, the stage becomes a space of resistance where the body emerges as a living archive - fragile, political and constantly becoming.

The work draws from overlapping crises in Lebanon: the 2019 revolution, the 2020 Beirut port explosion, economic collapse and the ongoing attack on southern Lebanon. From this foundation, the performance unfolds as an excavation of personal and collective memory. Drawing inspiration from contemporary and folk dance, Prince allows traditions to crack open and transform into new mythologies - a meditation on the body's place in the struggle against occupation, looking backward, inward and forward.

About Charlie Khalil Prince

Charlie Khalil Prince (b. 1991) is a Lebanese dancer, choreographer and musician whose work moves at the intersection of the political and the poetic. His works have been shown at festivals and venues including FTA - Festival TransAmériques, ImPulsTanz, Dansmakers Amsterdam, Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Vancouver International Dance Festival, Beirut International Platform of Dance, SPRING Festival and Oktoberdans. He was also among the selected artists in Aerowaves25 with the body symphonic. As a performer, he has collaborated with Benoît Lachambre, Compagnie Alias, Andrea Peña & Artists, La Biennale di Venezia (under the direction of Marie Chouinard) and Omar Rajeh - Maqamat, among others. Prince studied music at McGill University in Montreal and received the Boghossian Foundation Prize for Dance and Performance in 2018.

About Joss Turnbull

Joss Turnbull is a percussionist and sound artist working with the Iranian hand drum tombak as a starting point. His practice ranges from minimalist explorations of a single instrument to raw sound landscapes where