LE CRITERE DE GRIFFITH
multimedia performance by Danielle Labaki
Credits
Directing: Danielle Labaki
Texts and Interpretation: Camille Brunel, Caroline Hatem, Zalfa Seurat
Video: Walid Abdelnour
Light design: Rayan Al Nihawi
Sound: Marc Codsi
Stage manager: Hermine Nurpetlian
Technician: Tamara Badreddine
Photography: Jean-Noel Aoun
Assistant Video: Rami Chams
Production: YAZAN
Support: French Institute in Lebanon, GRAS SAVOYE (Insurance brokers), IXSIR wine, ILLY, the Roberto Cimetta Fund, Conseil Régional d'Ile de France
Help: Compagnie Sans Bagages (Paris), the Art & Movement Dance Studio, Collective Kahraba
The Griffith Criterion indicates a maximal constraint beyond which a material would break.
Lebanon, present times. Three women play out their strengths and weaknesses, their fears, their resistance to the world's jolts and barbarisms, their paradoxes and eventual resources to avoid breaking.
From the sewers to the stars, from Paris to Beirut, going through Arizona, those modern day witches put forth their questions, and the fringes where their bodies and imaginations roam.
In this part of the world, where a woman's role is strictly regulated (her image, her consumption habits, her group, her role of mother and spouse), it appeared vital to address cases of women who do not fit the norms, reject them even and invent their lives in a quest for freedom, however excluded or fringed they become. We intend to show these women's intense power while, a few centuries ago (and still today in some countries), they would have been burnt for witchcraft.
GALLERY
technical details
Production year: 2015
Premiered in: Station Beirut
Presentation format: the audience is seated all around the performance area on simple benches and can also move around to choose its point of view.
Media: live music, contemporary dance, video and text
Languages: Lebanese dialect, English and French
Destined for: galleries, museums, factories, raw spaces, rather than to a theatre.
