Sara Gebran
Denmark/Venezuela/Lebanon
Mobil: +4523290139
saragebran@yahoo.com
@saragebran
Sara’s works are situated within performance art, exploring medias such as video, text, sound, environmental law, and architecture, mediated by the dancing body, present or not. Her practices oscillate between choreography, dance, teaching and writing.
She has been studying how power works and forms of collective empowerment, through all her works, specifically with the projects developed in refugee camps in the West Bank: Vertical Exile and Vertical Gardening (2009-2011), while being the director of Education in Choreography at the Danish National School of Performing Arts (2012-16), and through performances, lectures, teaching and four publications.
Her current research-performance aims to protect and defend and protect the worlds’ forests and communicating a still novel concept of The Rights of Nature, from 2023 to 2028. Through these years she is working with the theatre space and with books as a courtroom, a kind of Parliament of all Beings and of all Things (thinking with Bruno Latour), to assembly and direct our collective action to safeguarding our planet’s conditions of habitability, particularly when our global political representatives appear to have stopped doing so. See: “The Forests' Trial“ (part 2, 2024) and its continuation in the Book: “The Forests Imaginary Trial: Dirt Roads Of Mercury's Journey”. “Mediating Nature” (part 1, 2023) and the book given to the audience: “The Forests'Imaginary Trial-374 Grieving Poems” and “La-Chicharra: an interactive platform for endangered species“
The sequel in 2025 is called “Forests’ Tales of Repair”, where a human and a more-than-human choir begin the process of healing lands through the vibration of Solfeggio healing frequencies in an interplay between dance, storytelling, sounds, and environmental law practice. While still demanding reparation from the responsible of the two environmental destruction presented in the previous performance.
Sara’s 4 books are part of her research called ‘Choreographic-Publications as Critical Space for Choreographic Practices and Self-Governance.’ Working with the page of a book as stage and the book as theater-venue. It is in this page-stage and book-venue where lies the potential for self- governance, free from curatorial impositions, and the drastic increasing competition amidst the global crisis, as infrastructures for being connected, included, and caring for each other.
Sara began writing books in 2017, resulting in: “Another Hole” (2019), “Quantum Society” (2022), “The Forests Imaginary Trial-374 Grieving Poems (2023), and “The Forests’ Imaginary Trial: Dirt Roads of Mercury’s Journey” (2024). Her books proposes the creation of alternative spaces, or Heterotopias...