2023-06-22 17:39:42
Joy overcame sadness in an official meeting organized by the Lebanese American University to celebrate the handing over of the rich archive of her career by choreographer Georgette Jabbara to the Riad Nassar Library on the university’s campus in Koraytem.
Jabara’s memory, which is very rich in black-and-white or colored photos of dancing parties, or some of her interviews with leading figures in the world of theater and ballet, woven all people through her body, which told us fictional stories, as is the case in the story of “Cinderella” or “The Sleeping Princess” and others.
In the era of adults, which seems to have passed forever, the creative Georgette Jabbara managed to bridge the distance between dance and poetry by harmonizing the movement of the body with poetry, that is, through her interaction with the recitation of seven poems: “The Gate” by Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab, “Abeer”. by George Ghanem, “That Evening” by Fadwa Touqan, “Small Affairs” by Nizar Qabbani, “The Hermit” by Elias Abu Shabaka, “Adha Al-Tana’i” by Ibn Zaydun, “I Had It Yesterday” by Gibran.
The Jabrani title “I had it yesterday” stops you as if it is a mirror of the beautiful, distant yesterday and the reality of the deadly doom at the bottom of hell today…
Jabara’s archive is like a group of butterflies moving from one flower to another, carrying nectar to feed all kinds of flowers.
The sections of this memory turn into a “nectar” rich in correspondence, photographs, the first ballet dance costume, and a sample of the book “Between Two Steps” that she personally published about her experience in ballet, in addition to a collection of newspaper clippings and a number of honors and awards granted to her, including the Saeed Akl Award in The year 1972, to be a woman ahead of her time, who made a golden march over the course of 70 years…
What does it mean today to talk about this archive? It is, in fact, an attempt to break the tragic reality of the decline existing in the corridors of arts and culture in Lebanon and the region, in addition to an attempt to reconcile the younger generation, who will visit the library to dive into this very rich archive, with our Lebanon in crisis because the real Lebanon, which was stolen from us by the war and its men, knew a woman above The custom is called Georgette Gebara, the “Ballerina”, who raised Lebanon’s name high through her elegant dance.
Georgette Gebara succeeded in her profession because she embraced freedom and fought for it through ballet dancing on stage.
She paved her way 70 years ago for the sake of human freedom in general and the liberation of women in particular from the legacies that restrict her life.
Gibara raised dance to the glory of life through the association of body language and its swaying with poetry and music and raised it to a sublime and sacred rank…
Who came to the party? All her fans, starting with her husband, Mr. Robert Arida, and all the way to her companions on the path in acting, most notably Gabriel Yammine, Rifaat Tarabay, Georges Shalhoub and Elsie Fernini, Randa Al-Asmar, Nicolas Daniel, Julia Kassar, Lina Abyad and long-life friends, including the plastic artist Salima Zod, who painted Jabara has costume designs inspired by her drawings for the ballet “Ecstasy” by Georgette Jabara…
The important thing is that we were able yesterday to get out of the bottle of watching the ruling class, which pounced on us without mercy, through this ceremony, in which the President of the University, Dr. lunar.
The day of “Georgette Gebara” included a special stop by the choreographer, Dr. Nadra Assaf, who knew Georgette Gebara closely, and presented with the Mirage Dance Troupe, consisting of dance teachers Jimmy Bashara and Sarah Fadel, a dance inspired by Georgette Gebara’s career in ballet, and even derived from her archive. Al-Ghani and the importance of the role of dance in conveying knowledge to the viewer…
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