Takween

Takween-Beirut Contemporary Dance School (BCDC) was an annual, three-month intensive contemporary dance-training program for young dancers and performance artists interested in pursuing professional careers. Mostly attracting students from the Levant, the program consists of rigorous physical classes alongside courses in choreographic composition and conceptual thinking, which are given by renowned local and international artists, dancers and choreographers. Stemming from a regional lack of educational facilities and instruction and professional opportunity, Takween–BCDC not only provided its participants with the training and discipline needed to professionally establish themselves, but also with a platform for cultural cooperation and exchange necessary for them to become leaders and entrepreneurs in the long-term development and institutionalization of dance as an influential social and cultural practice; thus creating an artistic foundation to begin forging communal dialogue, social bonds and civil change.