the body symphonic
the body symphonic is a performance – concert that observes the body as a site of resistance, an engaged this body which journeys through rituals of excavation – revealing new and unbound mythologies and allowing for a limit-less agency of self-representation and rootedness. Created in response to the multiple political and geopolitical crises in Lebanon – this work is a meditation on the body’s place in the struggle against occupation, where looking back, looking in and forward become strategies of steadfastness and liberation.
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Biography
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 major festivals such as FTA – Festival Transamériques ImPulsTanz among others. In 2023, he was artist-in-residence at the Villa Empain in Brussels, where he received the Boghossian Foundation award for dance and performance. In 2025, he was selected as an Aerowaves Artist for his solo the body symphonic.