LIVING HAPPILY FOREVER AFTER

A physical piece about the art of not dying. By living happily forever after in someone’s memory, on a tattoo, on a monument built in your honour, one becomes immortal. Immortality refers to non physicality, so it will be interesting to view it from the body’s point of view. Lia Haraki proposes a way to live forever through the memory of others and puts together a performance, where all actions are reactions to the fear of death.

The five performers-dancers deal with immortality by trying to convince us they are truly very special, using a variety of ways to reach heroism and everlasting happiness. By realising their human expiry date, they write their own funeral speeches, reveal their biggest secrets, pay a tribute to old musicals and even die for the sake of staying alive.

In her latest works, Haraki works with stereotypes from film and old musicals and mixes text, song and dance in a way that turns her performances into a kind of entertainment, accessible to large audiences.

Credits 

Performances Concept, Choreography, Direction: Lia Haraki

Commissioned by: Isolde Matkey

Dancers, Performers, Creative Contributors: Ariane Thalheim, Arianna Marcoulides, Antoni Stella, Cynthia Gonzalez, Evie Demetriou

Music: Winterberg

Text: Lia Haraki and Performers

Set Design, Costumes: Petra Schlüter

Lighting Design: Lia Haraki, Petra Schlüter

Graphic Design: Christina Olympiou

Photography: Carola

Technical Production: Brave New Media - Yiangos Hadjiyiannis

Production: Festival TANZherbst Neubau

Funding: Department of Cultural Services - Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture

Performances 

Premiere: 4 November 2006, Kleines Haus, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Germany

17 November 2006, Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus

19 November 2006, Strovolos Theatre, Nicosia, Cyprus