DANCE

Galactic Crush - جَلاكتيك كراش
Part 1 of a science-fiction saga
2022
Dance performance by Stephanie Kayal and Abed Kobeissy
Music by Abed Kobeissy

The events of this performance take place in a parallel universe, where in retaliation to decades of evil & corruption, a dancer anti-hero & her tactical support side-kick musician, will form a cheaply equipped & loosely organized crime-fighting power couple to exact justice! With good intentions & no experience whatsoever; they are a so-so summary of the contemporary reality in Beirut.
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Dramatized figures on stage (Stephanie Kayal and Abed Kobeissy), with a light designer in the control room (Pôl Seif), go through a don quixotic seizure of self-proclaimed heroism facing total despair; “Galactic Crush” flirts with the notion of fiction, in order to console it, in a place where an absurd reality has deprived fiction of its capacity to exaggerate.
Created and performed by: Stephanie Kayal and Abed Kobeissy
Choreography: Stephanie Kayal
Music: Abed Kobeissy
Light and Set Design: Pôl Seif
Featured photos: Pôl Seif
​Video documentation: Klaas