The Performing Biography series of workshops is a deep exploration of how one's story and experiences can be vehicles that connect the performer to the audience by sharing feelings of empathy, fragility, and humour.

The participants have the opportunity through the workshops to embody personal stories, perform confessions, exaggerate lies, reveal truths, and expose hidden talents and faults in a series of short solos, all within a very safe group environment. The practice is physical, mental and emotional, as expected when dealing with personal life stories.

For anyone who is occupied with storytelling, devised theatre, theatre, and any kind of performance on an amateur or professional level, and is open to exploring the body and voice as expressive and creative tools in the form of short informal performances within the group.

• Confidence in working with the voice and a microphone

• Immediacy and flow in speech and communication

• Familiarity with the physical body through the embodiment of situations and emotions

• Enrichment of knowledge in methods and tools from the performing arts that can also be useful for other professions.

• Learning ways of cultivating trust and cooperation within a group

• Empowerment of oneself through the experience of fragility and sensitivity as strengths.

• Inspiration for future performance projects

• Α possible beginning to a creative process for the making of a solo piece

The practice has been shared in the form of workshops guided by Haraki and often taught together with Guy Cools within the frame of several European festivals.

Dance House Lemesos, with Cathryn Robson -2009

Kalamata International festival with Guy Cools - 2010

Tilburg, Danshuis Station Zuid with Guy Cools, 2012

Impuls Tanz Vienna, with Guy Cools, 2012

Dance House Lemesos, 2016

Theatro Polis, 2019

Performance Lab 2021 - 2022

Impuls Tanz Vienna, with Guy Cools, 2022

RialtoΤheatre 2023

Podcast - On the Performing Biography workshop

Tedx Limassol - Whatever you perform is right