THE BODIES WE SWORE
2023
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 twentieth 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 2025 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 a meeting with the audience on the stage of the Rialto Theatre, where we together recalled the elements and themes from our body of work through discussions, memories, creative games, representations, and listening.
Credits
Concept, Direction, Lyrics: Lia Haraki
Collaboration on Concept Development: Alexis Vassiliou
Text, Dramaturgy, Research on Archive: Lia Haraki and Performers
Performers, Musicians, Devising Artists, Movement Collaborators, Creative Contributors: Alexis Vassiliou, Arianna Marcoulides
Guest Performers: Eleana Alexandrou, Petros Konnaris
Music: Team of Collaborators
Promotional Image: Harry Antoniades
Photography: Pavlos Vrionides
Technical Direction: Yiangos Hadjiyiannis
Production: Rialto Theatre (in the frame of the Rialto’s Associated Artist Scheme)
/ Pelma.Lia Haraki
Funding: Politismos Cultural Funding Scheme2023 - Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture / Rialto Theatre (in the frame of the Rialto’s Associated Artist Scheme)
Performance
Premiere: 13-14 December 2023, Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus