Hanane Hajj Alí
Sala Tallers - Dissabte 20 d’abril a les 19 h i diumenge 21 d’abril a les 18 h
Durada: 90 min
Espectacle en àrab amb subtítols en català

Hanane Hajj Ali, una figura destacada de l’escena cultural i artística libanesa, és una dona de cinquanta anys que corre diàriament pels carrers de Beirut per lluitar contra l’osteoporosi, l’obesitat i la depressió. Mentre corre, torna a visitar els seus desitjos i desil·lusions. Jogging és un exercici de salut que es transforma en una immersió a les profunditats dels seus somnis i pors més íntims.Un formidable gest alliberador. Premi millor interpretació al festival Off Edinburgh (2017) i Premi Gilder-Coigney atorgat per The League of Professional Theatre Woman (2020).

Text de l'espectacle a la venda durant les funcions. El llibre que conté el text de l'obra n'és una part integrant. Ha estat una eina eficaç per evitar les lleis de censura al Líban. Totes les actuacions al Líban es fan de manera gratuïta gràcies a les vendes de llibres i a les donacions realitzades després de cada actuació a l'estranger.

Chrystele Khodr
Sala Tallers - Wednesday 24 April at 7 pm and Thursday 25 April at 7 pm
Length: 90 min
Show in Arabic with subtitles in Catalan

Chrystèle Khodr is a performer who disagrees with the idyllic reading of the national model. Ordalie speaks about masculinity and the destruction of Lebanon.
A show about hope that seeks to end the cycle of impunity and destruction in which the Lebanese have grown up since their civil war.

Concert
Paint workshop - Thursday 25 April at 9 pm
Length: 45 min

Youmna Saba is a musicologist from Beirut who currently focuses on researching the musical dimension or dimensions of the Arabic language as a tool to generate new methods of working with electronic music. Saba focuses her studies on the parallels between classical Arab music and Arab visual art. She wrote her fifth solo album, Wishah, after leaving Beirut to live in Paris.

Maya Zbib
Dramatised reading
Paint workshop - Friday 26 April at 6 pm
Length: 90 min
Show in Catalan

Ghalia's Miles draws the changing map of the Lebanon region through the innocent and courageous eyes of Ghalia, a pregnant teenager who flees Lebanon in hope of building a new life in Europe. The protagonist becomes the representation of young people's ability to adapt to the uncertain environments of today's world. The play by Maya Zbib, director and playwright of the company Zoukak, arrives at the TNC in the form of a dramatised reading with a cast of Catalan actors and actresses who she directs herself.

Ali Chahrour
Dance
Sala Tallers - Friday 26 April at 8.30 pm
Length: 50 min

This dance piece is an idyll immersed in the darkness of forbidden passions. A tragic love story between two men in the Arab world. Far removed from Western models, Ali Chahrour choreographs The Love Behind My Eyes using a language inspired by Arab myths, lyrical poetry and his country’s political, social and religious context, and makes one of the most beautiful loving tributes that have ever emerged on the coasts of the Mediterranean.