About

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. Through an open call, we invite dancers and choreographers to apply with an ongoing project and participate in a 7-day 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 explores 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 behavior. Selected participants would have contributed to this unique artistic journey and become part of the broader SHIFT project spanning Europe and the Mediterranean.