Jimmy Bechara

Jimmy Bechara is a performer, choreographer, educator, and researcher whose work explores the relationship between movement, perception, and human behavior. He currently serves as Teacher Coordinator at Al-Sarab Dance School and is a Professor at the Lebanese American University. Born and raised in Lebanon, Jimmy pursued his graduate studies at Jacksonville University in Florida, where he earned an MFA in Dance (2019). His research focuses on motion perception within the triad of audience, choreographer, and performer, across both physical and virtual performance spaces. Some of his choreographic and performance credits include Loop(H)ole (2021), Ground 0 (2022), Mining the Gap (2019), and This. Is. How? It. Happened! (2016). Jimmy’s work continues to merge artistic inquiry with embodied research and contemporary performance practice. In The Inside Man, Jimmy performs as both mover and storyteller, navigating the tension between vulnerability and control while shaping the emotional rhythm of the work through embodied presence and dynamic physicality.