Trust that which you know
and cannot explain
Lia Haraki
I learned a lot about not performing in life
from performing on stage
A non-performed life, or rather, to live authentically, is embracing all emotions and aspects of being human and living from a place of personal truth and freedom.
What I love mostly is supporting you on this journey by mirroring back to you the wonder and potential of your authenticity through my performances, practices, and one-on-one guidance.
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I am an interdisciplinary performance artist, a practitioner, and a guide (trauma-informed life coach), using creative practices as methodologies for both creation and as practice-based tools that cultivate resilience, authenticity, and creative agency for living, creating, and becoming.
My performances
I have been creating performances, sound, and interactive experiences with the body and voice as central mediums for over twenty five years, with my works being presented locally and internationally.
My creative works are safe frames for people to experience themselves embodying high frequency emotions like joy and acceptance and interesting states like awareness and discomfort. In a way my performances function as invitations to inspire and move people outside their comfort zones and remember their authenticity as a way to their soul’s calling.
My methods, tools and practices
The creative process of making works all these years has brought several methods, tools and practices which inform and support the creative process of living. I offer them in the forms of workshops and lectures.
My one on one guidance
I have been mentoring artists and coaching creatives in articulating their creative universes for over twenty years (University of Nicosia, the Onion coaching). At the same time I am coaching individuals who have decided to become aligned with their authenticity and remember the essence of who they are (embodied authenticity and trauma-informed life coaching). Holding space, guiding, and supporting humans to become their most true and free versions of themselves is at the core of who I am and what I came into this lifetime to do.
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I believe art and life are both creative and transformative processes, which are necessary to each other. You need to transform your perception of reality to create a new one. Both processes are challenging and empowering as one needs to step from fear into courage, from habit to Repatterning, from an old to a new version of self. My work as an artist, practitioner and guide is to support people who have consciously decided to enter this process.
Read my text: Transformation and Creation go hand in hand - why i do what i do
Running projects
Idealist for searching for her own ‘truth’ as an artist, for new sensibilities. Idealist in believing in art as a social practice and in dance as a vehicle for spiritual, social and personal empowerment.
— Excerpt from the text ‘As a springboard to conceive the world anew’ by Steriani Tsintziloni (Assistant Professor-Dance, University of Athens Department of Theatre Studies), in the book 'Performance Works - Lia Haraki