Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat, Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee, and Albania Dance Meeting are calling for applications from dancers and choreographers to participate in Telescope Beirut, taking place from 4 to 10 April 2025 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Telescope Beirut is a one-week creative lab offering a unique lens to explore, magnify, and discover new perspectives in dance and performance. Artists selected from across Europe and the Mediterranean will be accompanied by a group of professionals to advise, support, and inspire their ongoing projects.
This open call invites dancers and choreographers to apply with an ongoing project and participate in the mentorship lab; a week of dynamic exchanges, workshops, experimentation, open presentations and creation. Telescope Beirut aims to reimagine performance practices while fostering meaningful connections, enhancing skills, and expanding knowledge.
With guidance from a local and international team of experts, the participants will explore creating for non-dedicated performance spaces and challenge conventional creative approaches. The project is committed to supporting selected artists in their creative journeys while raising awareness of new possibilities in creation, participation, engagement, and ecological behaviour.
Selected participants will contribute to this unique artistic journey and become part of the broader SHIFT project spanning Europe and the Mediterranean.
The artists will be granted full support for the period of the lab in Beirut with a possible coproduction fee for their project.
