Alissar Caracalla
{{short description|Lebanese dancer and choreographer}}
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أليسار كركلا
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Alissar Abdel-Halim Caracalla is a Lebanese dance instructor, choreographer and art director. 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."{{Cite web |url= http://www.bostathemovie.com/About%20music.htm |title= Bosta {{!}} About Music and Choreography |access-date=2007-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607222507/http://www.bostathemovie.com/About%20music.htm |archive-date= 2007-06-07 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url= http://www.meissoun.ch/e/beirut-tanz-e.htm |title=Dance around Beirut 2004 |access-date=2007-04-13 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061114214317/http://www.meissoun.ch/e/beirut-tanz-e.htm |archive-date=2006-11-14 |url-status=dead }}
Caracalla is the daughter of Abdel-Halim Caracalla the founder of the Caracalla Dance Theatre.
Biography
Caracalla was born 1974 on February 26 in Lebanon.{{fact|date=October 2024}} Her father, Abdel-Halim Caracalla a Shiite Muslim from Baalbek, married her mother, a Christian from Zahle, in a church. She spent the duration of the Lebanese Civil War growing up in London. {{fact|date=October 2024}}
At the age of 18, she moved to the United States.http://homeforlebanon.com/2016-04-07-14-47-47/item/549-alissar-caracalla-life-is-theater-theater-is-life {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}
=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.{{fact|date=October 2024}}
Career
In 2005, she choreographed the dance sequels in Philippe Aractingi's feature film, Bosta.[http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Alissar_Caracalla/3564616 Alissar Caracalla at Hollywood.com]
In 2011, she joined forces with Kunhadi 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 reality TV show Star Academy Lebanon.{{fact|date=October 2024}}
Personal life
She lived in Los Angeles for several years. Currently, she lives in London and Beirut.{{fact|date=October 2024}}
Caracalla is married to Nael Chehab an aerospace engineer and founder of the business PrivaSky.{{cite web | url=http://www.privasky.com/private-jet-Lebanon | title=Business private charters | date=8 March 2016 }} They had their wedding in Cyprus in 2012.http://namendb.com/alissar-caracalla{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
She gave birth to their first child in 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://www.seulementpourvip.com/Summer2016/interviewcaracalla14.php|title = Seulement Pour VIP}} In addition to Lebanese Arabic, she is a fluent speaker of French and English.{{Cite web|url=http://whoisshe.lau.edu.lb/expert-profile/alissar-caracalla|title = Alissar Caracalla | Who is She in Lebanon}}
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Category:Lebanese emigrants to the United Kingdom
Category:Lebanese choreographers
Category:Lebanese female dancers
Category:Lebanese Shia Muslims
Category:Lebanese emigrants to the United States
Category:Lebanese art directors