Dolly Sfeir is a director and choreographer who grew up in Lebanon and moved to the States at the age of 19. She is a 2022 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Choreography, the 2019 Grand Prize winner of the Palm Desert Choreography Competition, recipient of a 2023 NYSCA choreography grant and a choreographic fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow. She was awarded a residency with CUNY Dance Initiative to create an evening-length work which premiered at LPAC in Spring 2022, and was artist-in-residence for Abingdon Theatre Company.
It Cries Too Loudly (2021)
Devastated and powerless as she watched the 2020 Beirut explosion and its aftermath from afar, Lebanese American choreographer and director Dolly Sfeir set about creating a work to express her delicate state of mind. It Cries Too Loudly is a dance film exploring the overlap between joy and tragedy in her tumultuous home country and the experience of being an émigré.
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