Fifth Edition of the 2B Continued Festival and Theatre Laboratory

[\"A Room Filled with Smoke\" was among the four acts produced by the festival this year.] [\"A Room Filled with Smoke\" was among the four acts produced by the festival this year.]

Fifth Edition of the 2B Continued Festival and Theatre Laboratory

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Fifth Edition of the 2B Continued Festival and Theatre Laboratory

January 2014

Falaki Theatre, Cairo

 

Studio Emad Eddin began 2B Continued Festival and Theatre Laboratory in 2008 to support the work of local theatre directors and contemporary dance choreographers under the age of thirty-five. The festival, as its Artistic Director Nevine El Ibiary explains in this video, facilitates the development of a specialized workshop in scenography, lighting, costume design, directing, sound engineering, and stage management, which the studio offers all year round. This year, 2B Continued produced four new shows: a dance piece by Mounir Said titled A Room Filled with Smoke; Mirror by theatre director Yasmine Emam; Triangles are My Favorite Shape by Seif Abdel Salaam; and Mohamed El Deeb’s performance piece What’s left… 

                         [This video is produced by Medrar TV and is featured in partnership with Jadaliyya Culture.]  

 

A Scenography Workshop by Hussein Baydoun

A Scenography workshop by Hussein Baydoun

8-16 September 2013

Falaki Theater, Cairo, Egypt

 

Hussein Baydoun is a Lebanese artist, architect, and scenographer who is known for his unique approach to set design. Baydoun frequently participates in the creation and development of performances from their early stages with the view that scenography is an essential component to the creation of theatrical work, one no less important than the script. His designs are often inspired by the performance spaces in which he works, where he creates fascinating sets from whatever is available as he challenges conventional notions about theater production, such as in his most recent performance "Alice," which was produced in collaboration with Lebanese playwright and director Sawsan Bou Khaled. In September, Baydoun returned to Cairo to lead a scenography workshop following the same vision. At the American University in Cairo`s Falaki Theater, he worked with six upcoming set designers, in addition to amateurs, on creating imaginative environments from the remnants of old sets and other discarded objects. This video highlights the vision and development of the workshop as Baydoun describes the aim of his teaching methods.  


 

      

     [This video is produced by Medrar TV and is featured as part of a new partnership with Jadaliyya Culture.]