Alissar Abdel-Halim Caracalla is a Lebanese

dance instructor Dance education is a practice whereby students are taught a broad understanding of dance as an art form or trained professionally in specific dance genres. Dance education also encompasses a research area in which scholars conduct original resear ...

choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...

and

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. She is the founder and director of the Orientalist Dance Company and CDS, the Caracalla School of Dance, which is simply known as "Studio Caracalla: L'art de la Danse." Caracalla is the daughter of

Abdel-Halim Caracalla Abdel-Halim Caracalla is the founder and the artistic director of the Lebanese dance company Caracalla Dance Theatre, a company which would evolve into the first and most prominent dance theatre of the Middle East, creating a new language based up ...

the founder of the

Caracalla Dance Theatre The Caracalla Dance Theatre is a dance company based in Beirut, Lebanon. History In 1968, Abdul Halim Caracalla founded what would evolve into the first and most prominent professional dance theatre of the Middle East, creating a body language base ...

Biography

Alissar Abdel-Halim Caracalla was born 1974 on February 26 in Lebanon. Her father,

a Shiite Muslim from

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, married her mother, a Christian from Zahle, in a church. She spent the duration of the Lebanese civil war growing up in London. At the age of 18, she moved to the United States.

Education

She received her BA in International Communications and Choreography from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and her master's degree in Fine Arts in Dance Theory and Choreography at UCLA.

Career

In 2005, she choreographed the dance sequels in

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's feature film, Bosta. In 2011, she joined forces with

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to raise road safety awareness in Lebanon and became one of their four ambassadors for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020 in Lebanon. Additionally, she was the dance instructor and choreographer in the highly popular, reality TV show, Star Academy.

Personal life

She lived in Los Angeles for several years. Currently, she lives in London and Beirut. Caracalla is married to Nael Chehab an aerospace engineer and founder of the business PrivaSky. They had their wedding in Cyprus in 2012. She gave birth to their first child in 2017. Her main personal hobby is yoga. In addition to Lebanese Arabic, she is a fluent speaker of

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and English.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Caracalla, Alissar Living people Lebanese dancers Lebanese emigrants to the United Kingdom Lebanese choreographers Contemporary dancers Lebanese female dancers Lebanese Shia Muslims 1974 births Lebanese emigrants to the United States Lebanese art directors