Collaboration with NiMAC for OPAP City Theatre

Written By Lia Haraki

NIMAC FOR THEATRO POLIS

NiMAC [The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] and choreographer Lia Haraki’s artistic structure .pelma. are pleased to announce their creative collaboration for 2019, having as their centre the OPAP City Theatre.

In the framework of this collaboration, the OPAP City Theatre will host a series of interesting synergies that will include art exhibitions, theoretical presentations and lectures, performances, dance and dance theatre, residency programmes for Cypriots and foreign artists, workshops, as well as educational programmes.

A detailed programme of the activities and events of this collaboration you can see in the calendar section

Lia Haraki

Lia Haraki is an interdisciplinary performer, maker and practitioner working across performance, devised theatre, choreography, song, spoken word and what she calls repetitive poetry. As a creator, she is occupied with issues related to identity, community and value and she beleives in the power of art as a medium that can trigger shifts in perception towards a fairer world.

Lia usually works with the moving and sounding qualities of the human body, in order to speak about its sociopolitical position, by challenging notions of normality associated to it. Beginning from self-sarcasm and working with satire, she enjoys finding performative ways to crack socially constructed narratives and reveal the illusion we have of them as ‘real’. In her pieces vulnerability and empathy are celebrated as human super powers and act as threads that connect the performer with the audience.

Her work in general takes the shape of staged works, site-specific pieces, one on one experiences, sound installations, standup shows, music bands and performances in shops.

At the same time she is proud to have developed several practices through the collaborative artistic research of the past twenty years in the forms of workshops, coaching and artists’ mentoring. In general she considers inspiring others and triggering creativity awakenings especially in younger artists is her most sacred of services !

https://www.liaharaki.com/
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