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→ produced
/ 'KING LEAR' /
Led by Britney Brady @ Walt Disney Modular theater
We investigate the story of Lear in the context of America and its stereotypes.
moments from the production below
design process below
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→ produced
/ 'METAMORPHOSIS' /
with L'academie Libanaise Des Beaux-Arts
@ Beiteddine Festival, Lebanon
This is a visual series of transformative sequences expressing Metamorphosis.
* responsible of designing two of the scenes here
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→ THEORETICAL
Սէւ կէտ - نقطة سوداء - "black dot"
site specific
history repeats itself !!
As a descendent of Armenian genocide survivors, and a Lebanese citizen, I am aware that we have a black hole in our history.
materializing that black hole in physical spaces.
@ Phoenix, AZ
black dot @ galery Tanit, Beirut
to be made by locals who will get paid in USD
HYPERINFLATION
When I left Lebanon in 2018, 1 USD was = to 1,500 LL, today 1 USD is = to 30,000 LL (constant fluctuation)
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black dot @ TUMO, Gyumri, the city where so much blood has been spilled
originally, opera theater built in 1860.
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→ THEORETICAL
'Hamletmachine'
@ The Egg and on the way to the Egg
Hamletmachine is based on images from Heiner Muller's memory of East Germany, this Hamletmachine will be based on images from Beirut's memory.
"The Egg" below is an unfinished cinema structure built in 1965 in Beirut. It's construction was interrupted during the Lebanese civil war.
The Eggs arrive in the egg, where Hamlets are frying eggs, while Ophelia eats the fried eggs.
* The word eggs (بيضات) in Arabic can refer to the men's balls.
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→ THEORETICAL
/ 'ORPHEO ET EURIDICE' /
Opera America Designer-Director competition
Euridice is being tested in this story.
Is she a good wife for Orpheus?
Is she appropriate?
in the underworld and the Elysian fields
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→ GESTURAL MODEL
/ 'GHOSTS' /
written by Henrik Ibsen
Mrs. Alving is obsessed with the illusion that she has a perfect life, which in reality is far from being perfect.
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