Lia Haraki’s choreographic practice emerges as a dynamic confluence of embodied learning, experiential absorption, and the intentional transmission of dance and performance methodologies. Through a finely tuned process of sculpting lived experience into performative language, she has cultivated a body of work that not only unpacks the personal and the political but also develops adaptable frameworks for creating, performing, and teaching.
Her methods invite artists to delve into their life stories, revealing the creative process both as a site of self-discovery and a source of shared knowledge. In doing so, Haraki extends the stage into everyday life, offering tools and strategies that resonate beyond the studio or theatre—transforming personal narrative into collective insight, and artistic process into a methodology applicable across diverse contexts.
Practices
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Performing Biography - A Standup Solo Performance Practice
The solo performance practice focuses on how autobiography and stories from one's life can become meaningful sources of material for the stage. Inspired partly by stand-up comedy principles, combined with Lia’s choreographic and performative methods, the practice aims the use self-referential, self-sarcastic and experiential information as vehicles which connect the performer to the audience by sharing feelings of empathy, fragility, and humour.
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IntuNition Physical Practice
IntuNition is a physical practice that aims to embody and somatically manifest intuition. As Intuition is the ability to know without conscious reasoning, the body in the IntuNition practice is treated as a vessel of already existing information, with the practitioner opening themselves to a world of endless expressive possibilities. Specifically, the practice, often called a ritual, is about effortlessly following the flow of movement and tracing its transformation as it evolves in time and space through the elements of repetition and variation. The practitioner is alert to the impulses coming from their mental, emotional, physical, or energetic bodies so that they can embody whichever is more present at every moment of movement. The IntuNition practice can be a transformative experience as the practitioner transitions from state to state, from emotion to emotion, from idea to idea, and from energy to energy in a constant variation of all these elements.
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The Performance Shop Concept Coaching
This is a five-day coaching laboratory where participants are guided to explore how they could create a performance service that is useful and valuable in today’s world. The coaching focuses on the value of immaterial art, its use and function in society. Artists are encouraged to find ways through the creation of performance services to fill the missing gaps towards a more functional, healthier and happier way of living for humans, their communities and the planet. In the workshop, the participants have the opportunity to put their preferred services into practice and witness them be experienced by the rest of the group, who offer feedback and open up a dialogue for discussion.
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The Onion Coaching
The Onion coaching is about supporting the creator/artist, in becoming aware of their role and core purpose, embracing their gifts, and consciously creating the art (creations) they imagine. It is about remembering, reflecting, organizing, articulating, and clarifying the parts that make the artist’s creative universe and exploring how they want to share their creativity with the world.
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The Repetitive Poetry Practice
The repetitive poetry practice is both a vocal and an embodied practice. As a continuation of the IntuNition practice, this time, words (not just movement) are repeated, varied, and transformed into sounds through alternating rhythms. The result is a dynamic interplay between meaning and abstraction, text and movement, words and sounds, which stimulates both the mental and the physical body of the performer and the observer.