269:'s beach resorts and the blockage it has created when accessing public beaches in the area, as the issue has quickly grown since the Lebanese civil war (1975 - 1990). In the performance, El Khoury attempts to swim into one of the many resorts for free. Prior to the staging, she shared booklets with fishermen and around the city, where a map of the city pin pointing the history of the resort-filled coastline.
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They have to pick a card with a name and match it to the wooden tombstone, once the audience member has found the correct grave, they dig. Shoe-less and protected by a plastic poncho, the audience members have to excavate, not to find bones, but a voice telling the stories of those who lost their lives during the regime. The production has been touring globally.
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Choreograph Me, You'll Feel Better (2011) - while El Khoury stands on the street with headphones, the audience stands and watches through a window, while a male audience member dictates her actions, chooses a name and a costume for her. "Results were seldom pretty, as the men frequently
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Gardens Speak (2014) - El Khoury drew inspiration from a picture she had seen on social media of a woman burying her deceased son in her garden, after he was killed at the beginning of the Syrian uprising by the Assad regime. In the immersive performance, only 10 participants are allowed at a time.
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El Khoury was selected as a 2019 Soros Arts Fellow, where 11 of the selected artists, filmmakers, curators and researchers whose work involved immigration were granted US$ 80,000 each "to realize an ambitious project over the next 18 months."
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