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Stephanie Kayal is a Lebanese choreographer, theatre maker, and performer based in Brussels. Her work blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, weaving dance, music, text, and video into absurd, personal-political, and often darkly humorous performances.
Her projects include Evidence of Things Not Seen (2021), The Time It Took You to Realize It Was a Dream (2023), Galactic Crush (2022) and Galactic Crush 2: Into the Cold (2025) co-created with music composer and performer Abed Kobeissy in collaboration with multidisciplinary artists Firas El Hallak and Pôl Seif.
Since 2025, she has been produced by Hiros. Her artistic trajectory has also been supported by Plateforme Parallèle (2025), Common Stories (2023–2025), and Campo (2026).
Her works have been developed and presented at venues including Kunstencentrum Buda, Beursschouwburg, Fabrik Potsdam, Frankfurt LAB, Zoukak Theatre, Kaaistudios (workspacebrussels), Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, and La Friche Belle de Mai.
As a performer, she was a member of Koon Theatre Group in Beirut (2015–2019) and has collaborated on numerous projects with various makers. Most recently, she joined Maison Ravage/Adeline Rosenstein for their latest production, Ravage tout court.
Kayal holds a Master’s degree in Choreography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (ARBA-EsA / ISAC) and a Master’s degree in Theatre Studies from the Lebanese University – Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture.
Abed Kobeissy is a Beirut-based musician, composer, and producer working across contemporary music, performance, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Centering the buzuq within experimental and contemporary contexts, his work explores an unapologetically confused present-day Levant, drawing from urban sonic environments.
His work spans solo performances, collaborative projects, and original compositions for theater, and film. Since 2014, he has developed an extensive body of work for contemporary dance, notably through long-term collaborations with choreographer Ali Chahrour and as co-creator and composer with choreographer Stephanie Kayal.
Kobeissy’s works have been presented internationally since 2013. He has received numerous commissions in music composition and research, including from The Berlin Biennale & The Berlin International Film Festival (2018), UNESCO (2018), CTM Music Festival Berlin (2020), and the Irtijal/Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival commission (2021).
He has released multiple albums and collaborative projects since 2017. He is co-founder of the Lebanese electroacoustic duo Two or The Dragon and the Lebanese-German beat-noise quartet Stellar Banger. He is currently preparing three forthcoming albums in collaboration with Two or The Dragon & Hala Omran, with Lynn Adib, and with Sary Moussa.
Kobeissy holds a Master’s degree in Advanced Studies on the semiotics of music in Arabic cinema and has lectured at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. He has also contributed as a juror for academic arts programs.