Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/20/2017
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
Irwin Theatre, Lebanese American University
Category(ies)
- Dance
- Video
- Music
- Theatre
- Visual Arts
- Multimedia
- Avant-Garde
- Sculpture
- Electronic
- Experimental
- International
- Premiere
- Sonic
- Symphonic
- Vocal
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LAU Mosaic Ensemble presents An experimental music & performance “I Am Not A Terrorist”
Written & Directed by Martin Loyato
Word of the Director
“I Am Not a Terrorist” is an experimental performance, in which I intend to arouse thoughts and feelings that might create a constructive awareness of today’s current international sociopolitical situation. One can see how Middle Eastern individuals have been mistreated and misjudged by the West just because they were born in these lands.
The topic is not clearly a black and white one. There are important questions that one should be able to ask to oneself and analyze. This does not mean that terrorism should be acceptable, because it is not. The intention of the show is to at least make the audience, throughout an experimental performance, discuss and reflect upon of what creates the environment for these sorts of behaviors and the aftermath of the equation without forgetting the significance of the human being component from the three sides; the West, the Middle East and the terrorist groups. Why do they react that way? Is it due to power, oil, religion, culture, illiteracy, privilege and oppression, or just dominion strategies of fear? By combining multimedia, lightmapping, poetry, music and dance, I set to engage the audience with the question of authenticity, truth, perception and reality.
Artistic Team
- Sandra Azki — voice, percussion, sound sculptures instrument
- Karl Bou Rjely — guitar, electronics
- Nadine Daouk — voice, dancer, choreography
- Lynn El Jbeily — voice, piano
- Omar Hamadeh — voice, choreography
- Mortada Hariri — oud
- Majd Khiami — voice, sound sculptures instrument
- Natalie Maalouf — voice, percussion, choreography
- Rayan Najd — voice, piano
- Mohammed Zahzah — clarinet, electric guitar, electronics
- Martín Loyato — trumpet, percussion, sound sculptures instruments
- Ali Fakih — videographer
- Rayan Chehab — videographer, editor
- Mira Zebib — motion/kinetic typography
- Ramy Inaty — light-mapping