the body symphonic
Charlie Khalil Prince
About the body symphonic
Created in response to the multiple political and geopolitical crises in Lebanon, the body symphonic is a meditation on the body’s place in the struggle against occupation. Lebanese dancer, choreographer and musician Charlie Khalil Prince transforms the stage into a space of resistance in a magnetic solo performance, where the body asserts its agency against erasure. At once a concert and a choreographic offering, the work blurs the line between dance and music; gestures generate sound, while rhythms from virtuoso percussionist Joss Turnbull give rise to movement. Prince draws from both contemporary and folk dances, allowing traditions to fracture and reconfigure into new mythologies. It is a meditation, a purge, a prayer, invoking the possibility of imagined futures.
A visual and sonic jolt which left the public both breathless and in admiration
La Depêche, on the body symphonic
About Charlie Khalil Prince
Charlie Khalil Prince is a Lebanese dancer, choreographer, and musician whose work merges movement, sound, and political consciousness into transcendent performance. His practice explores the body as site, symbol, and archive, positioning vulnerability as rebellion, and performance as a space of memory, resistance, and renewal. Blending music and movement into one living gesture, he transforms the body into both vessel and witness, navigating between mourning and visionary futures that resist cultural subjugation.
Prince’s choreographic work has been presented internationally at FTA - Festival TransAmèriques, ImPulsTanz, Dansmakers Amsterdam, Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and the Vancouver International Dance Festival among others, and the Beirut International Platform of Dance. In 2023, he was artist-in-residence at the Villa Empain in Brussels, where he received the Boghossian Foundation award for dance and performance. He was selected as one of the Aerowaves 2025 artists with his solo work the body symphonic. For Prince, dance is essential: an insistence on life, memory, and resistance in times of crisis.
the body symphonic Cast & Creatives
Choreography & Performance: Charlie Khalil Prince
Live Music: Charlie Khalil Prince and JossTurnbull
With samples and recordings from the voice of MouneerSaeed, from Mustafa Said’s Into The Silent Zoneفي رحاب الضمت and of an excerpt from Sextantby Stellar Banger
Dramaturgy: Erin Hill
Light Design: Joe Levasseur
the body symphonic Credits
With the support of Aerowaves Europe
