PELMA

Pelma.Lia Haraki is the artistic framework and production structure that hosts the artistic work and collaborations of artist Lia Haraki. Its core purpose is to create links between art and society through the creation, production, presentation, research and exhibition of artistic work. It is a non-profit association founded by Lia and her associates in 2003 in Limassol, Cyprus and for the first year of its creation it also hosted the visual artist Christodoulos Panayiotou.

In the last twenty years Pelma.Lia Haraki has created and presented over fifty works for the stage and site specific and has supported the development of practices and methods such as 'Performing biography', 'The onion', 'IntuΝition', 'The performance shop' and 'Repetitive poetry'. The creative structure also provided the framework for collaborations with over a hundred performers,  dancers, musicians, sound designers, set designers, photographers, visual artists, technicians, dramaturgs, mentors, assistants and others. Long-term collaborators are the artists/performers Ariana Marcoulidou, Eleana Alexandrou, Alexis Vassiliou, Petros Konnaris, Marios Ioannou, dramaturg Guy Cools, technical director Yiangos Hatzigiannis, sound designers and musicians Yiannis Christofides, Christos Hatzichristou and Pantelis Diamantidis, mentor Evi Haraki Machairas, voice guide Cathryn Robson and many others. 

Works of the structure have been presented in many European festivals such as Julidans Amsterdam, Athens Festival, Royal Festival Hall London, Bozar Brussels, Unesco Paris, The Place London, Tanec Praha, Kleines Haus Dresden, Korzo The Hague, Euro-scene Leipzig, Venice Biennale with the solo 'Tune In' (honorable mention for the Cyprus and Lithuanian pavilion). Works were awarded on the Cyprus Dance Platform and shortlisted twice by the Aerowaves network.

Since its inception, the creative framework has been an important driving force in the development of contemporary dance and performance in Cyprus, prompting structures such as the Dance House Limassol and Training programs for professionals and the community. Pelma also started cooperation with the European network Aerowaves Network and theDance Web Europe - Impuls Tanz festival in Vienna in 2003. As a cultural institution it has participated in various European programs and has created curation and residency programs for works by other artists from Cyprus and abroad.

 Pelma.Lia Haraki is funded mainly by the Department of Modern and Contemporary Culture - Deputy Ministry of Culture-Cyprus and collaborates frequently with the Dance House Lemesos, Nimac (Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre in collaboration with the Pierides Foundation) and the Rialto Theatre in Limassol.