THE BODIES WE SWORE

From the piece ‘Humans Being’ image by Pavlos Vrionides

A performance about the twenty years of creation of pelma.Lia Haraki.

How do performance works exist in the memory of the audience that had witnessed them?
This was the initial question which triggered our creative process in making the work ‘The bodies we swore’.
This year it is the twenty year anniversary of our works, our practices and our collaborations through the creative frame of pelma.Lia Haraki. It was a year of reflection as we dived deep into the organisation of our archive to create this performance and in preparation for a book, which will be distributed in 2024 with texts from collaborators and academics in relation to our body of work.

In the performance 'The bodies we swore' we reflected on past works, shared stories, tried out practices and interpreted songs from our performances and collaborations, together with the audience that has supported us for so many years. 'The bodies we swore' has been structured as an informal meeting with the audience on the stage of the Rialto Theatre, where together we recalled the elements and themes from our body of work through discussions, memories, creative games, representations and listening.
The piece was a part of the Rialto’s Associate Artist Scheme and is supported by the department of Modern and Contemporary
Culture - Deputy Ministry of Culture-Cyprus

Concept / direction / Archive organisation: Lia Haraki
Collaborator in concept development: Alexis Vassiliou
Performers / collaborators: Arianna Marcoulides, Alexis Vassiliou, Lia Haraki
Guest performers: Petros Konnaris, Eleana Alexandrou
Music: Team of collaborators, Images: Pavlos Vrionides
Technical direction: Yiangos Hadjiyiannis
Performance 13th and 14th December at 20.30
with the support of the programme “POLITISMOS” - of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus.