S.O.M.A
June 15 - August 20, 2023
S.o.M.A. (school of movement arts) is a two-month-long event dedicated to the development, training and exchange around contemporary forms of dance and movement arts in Lebanon. The 2023 summer edition offers different formats for different needs, interests and levels of experience: weekly classes, short workshops, an intensive dance and somatics weekend and our yearly contact festival, with a selection of guest teachers from Lebanon and abroad.
WEEKLY CLASSES
Beginners
Mondays & Wednesdays
6 to 7:30pm
Intermediate
Mondays & Wednesdays
7:30 to 9pm
More about classes here
Contact Improvisation
Weekly Jams
June 15th to July 27th, 2023
Amalgam Studio- Hamra
Facilitated by
Corinne Skaff
About
A series of weekly contact improvisation (CI) jams with focus themes. We will start with a contact improvisation short introductory class and open up to a jam practice.
Bring in your water, towel, long sleeve shirt(s), comfortable pants, knee pads (for sensitive knees), your explorative mood, and join the dance!
Proceeds of these sessions go towards the funding of the S.o.M.A. community support program for ContactCampBeirut.
The Global Underscore (GUS)
June 24th, 2023
4pm- 5pm - Underscore Talk through
5pm - 9pm (Beirut Time) - Full score practice
MaFk
Facilitator:
Corinne Skaff (LB)
About
The underscore is a practice developed by Nancy Stark Smith, bringing together contact improvisation and other improvisational practices into a 3 to 4 hours collective practice. The global underscore (GUS) is practiced around the globe in different countries at the same time.
Join us on June 24th at MAFk, for an introductory workshop explaining the different phases of the underscore and then engage in the global practice from lebanon in sync with the rest of the world.
DanceScapes
July 21st to 23rd, 2023
MaFk
Intensive Teacher:
Corinne Skaff (LB)
Guest Teachers:
Kim Baraka (LB/NDL)
Nisrine Khoury (LB)
Tsharly Prince (LB/CA)
Nivine Kallass (LB)
Elissa Mansour (LB)
Chiara Khatounian (LB)
About
Dancescapes is a 3-days intensive weekend dedicated to creative movement and somatic practices. Bringing together different teachers and approaches to contemporary dance and awareness through movement, the workshops will provide you with tools for cultivating your own potential and relation to your kinesthetic creativity and well-being.
Open to all levels and creative aspiring.
ContactCampBeirut
August 17th to 20th, 2023
MaFk
Teachers:
Emmanuelle Gerin (FR)
Mathilde Loslier Perrin (CA)
Corinne Skaff (LB)
About:
ContactCamp is an immersive 4-days camp festival dedicated to contact improvisation and other instant composition practices. An intensive long weekend of training , workshops , jams, labs, discussions and performance.
Open to all levels and backgrounds.