Caroline Hatem

Caroline Hatem is a Lebanese dancer, an actress and a writer. She studied Philosophy (Masters 2 - DEA), acting (University of Arizona, Tucson, and Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York) and dance (and earned the National dance examination - Examen d'Aptitude Technique, Paris, 2007). Acting in Arabic, French, English. She specialized in dance in the United States (Ballet Arts, Trisha Brown Dance School in New York), in France (preparation of the State Diploma at the RIDC, training with Marc Jebejian (classical), Atsushi Takenoushi (Butoh), Mohamad Haidar (dabkeh) and in Lebanon (Institut de danse Alice Massabki, Art & Movement, Jal el Dib). She's worked with choreographers Alice Massabki ("Rech Mayya", 2010-11), Jack Wiley, Nathalie Pernette (in RIDC) ..., theatre directors (Edwin Gerard, Vanessa Ford, Joanna Andraos & Wissam Koteit...), and filmmakers (Luke Stettner, Michael Stone, Jean-Claude Codsi, Fouad Alaywan, Lara Saba, Wael Noureddine, Shirin Abu Shaqra, Mohamad Sabbah, Rana Andraos...) She has created herself "Hor ch'è tempo di dormire", "How they thought a table is a table", The Joy Series, JoKaRi (Collective) and Solitude, with original music compositions by Joelle Khoury, Michael Ashjian, or Rabih Gebeile. A writer as well, she won the Silver Medal at the Jeux de la Francophonie and the Grand Prix de la Mediterranee for her short stories. She published Beyrouth ete 2006 (collective, Editions des Bords Perdus, France, 2007) and Beyrouth Aller Retour/ Beirut rawha rajaa, (short stories, bilingual Arabic/French, collective, Dar el Saqi, Beirut, 2010). Her text was partly used for Cauchemar en trois mouvements, a play performed in Paris and in the Avignon Off Festival (2008-2009) by the Lebanese/French actress Nadine Malo. She was invited as a writer in residency by the Tarmac Theatre (Paris) in 2013 - she completed there a long-feature film script "Cassandre", and a play: "Dans un coin de l'univers, la lune n'a pas de bornes". She"s performing in Beirut in February 2015, along actresses Camille Brunel and Zalfa Seurat, in the "Critère de Griffith", a multimedia theatrical performance directed by Danielle Labaki, about how much a material (or a woman) can take before breaking. Caroline Hatem founded YAZAN, a collective for films, music and performing arts in 2014 in Beirut to promote works that matter. YAZAN has already produced two documentary films (in post-production). Caroline writes, performs and teaches dance in Beirut.