THIS IS A SHOP WHERE
performing and PERFORMANCE
RELATED ART IS AT THE SERVICE OF ANY
INDIVIDUAL WHO WANTS TO
EXPERIENCE IT
performing and PERFORMANCE
RELATED ART IS AT THE SERVICE OF ANY
INDIVIDUAL WHO WANTS TO
EXPERIENCE IT
The
Performance
shop
OPENING DAY NOVEMBER 15TH
A project conceived and organized by .pelma.lia haraki in the frame of the Nicosia Pop up festival 2014
This is a shop where performing and performance related art is at the service of any individual who wants to experience it.
Performances and their process of creation are made available to individuals of any age over 18, sex or profession by buying a performance service of a one to one session with an experienced artist or by buying a performance. Through this process individuals will have the chance to apply the information given to them for the wellbeing of their own reality.
The Shop will offer anyone that is willing:
the chance to perform
be performed by others
experience intense physicality
become a director for a day
discover their inner creative child
buy a custom made performance
witness exposure as a form of communication
allow the body to become an extraordinary tool of self-expression.
The Performance shop will offer
-8 different performance services (one to one sessions)
-Group workshops (look for monthly schedule)
-Performances for sale
-Photographs for sale taken from different productions by .pelma.lia haraki.
-Books related to performing and performance art (in collaboration with Moufflon bookshop)
To perform is to dare transform! view services, group workshops and performances for sale
Performance Services
SERVICES THAT WERE USED IN CREATIVE PROCESSES
PERFORMANCES TO ORDER
RUNNING PERFORMANCES
Group Workshops
Performing biography
With Lia Haraki
The director Game
With Marios Ioannou
From motion to emotion
With Lia Haraki
I Perform U
With Marios Ioannou
Numerology
With Evi Haraki Mahera
Light Body Activation
With Evi Haraki Mahera
Private classics
With Marios Ioannou
The homemade project
With.pelma.lia haraki
AN OCCASIONAL SHOW
With.pelma.lia haraki
Your funeral show
With Lia Haraki
Hand shame
With.pelma.lia haraki
On display
With individual artists/performers
Introduction to Dance Movement Psychotherapy
With Maria Charalabous
Nude The Body
With Petros Konnaris
IntuNition
With Lia Haraki and Eva Haraki Mahera
Mentoring for dance artists
With Lia Haraki
The Artists
Lia Haraki
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Marios Ioannou
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Evi Haraki Mahera
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Maria Charalambous
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Petros Konnaris
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Andonis Liveropoulos
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Lia Haraki
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Marios Ioannou
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Evi Haraki Mahera
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Maria Charalambous
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Petros Konnaris
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Andonis Liveropoulos
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Location
Nicosia (opposite City Plaza) Aphrodite’s street, Makarios Avenue Days and opening hours : Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 – 13:30 and 15:30 – 20:00Performing biography
Lia Haraki
CREATE AND PERFORM YOUR OWN SOLO!This is a one to one session where the participant ends up performing their own autobiographical solo after going through a creative process guided by the artist. The process will include the creation of a specific type of a life map and the introduction and understanding of some very basic performance tools. Material will then be developed and presented in the form of a short solo performance. Guidelines will come from Lia’s ‘Standup PerformDance’ practise where one’s history can be used to build a unique universe in time and space. This will enable the participant to gain an understanding of several performance possibilities, to discover his/her performance abilities as well as allow for a process of awareness related to his/her life journey. The small solo can have the chance to be developed further if the participant wishes to in 3 more sessions, so that it can then be performed at a particular night at ‘The Performance shop’ for the participant’s friends and family.
Who can participate:All kinds of individuals of different age (over 18), sex, gender, race, profession with a curiosity to experience a creative process for the making of work and an interest to perform themselves. No previous dance or music or theatre experience needed.
Duration: 3 hours
Price: 100 euro
Further development and performance: 300 euro
Booking: 99182683
The director game
Marios Ioannou
BE THE DIRECTOR FOR A WHILE!This is an offer not to be missed!
The participant in this session has the chance to step into the director’s shoes for an hour and experiment with several stage possibilities, by guiding the actor’s actions and behaviour.
The participant will be given guidelines and rules for the game which include proposals and suggestions of several directing possibilities. The rules also include the participant’s responsibility to choose out of the shop’s wardrobe the props the actor will play with and the costumes he will wear. Different music tracks will also be available from a lap top device. The participant will be given the power to guide the actor through suggestions and proposals.
In the words of the actor (Marios Ioannou) himself: ‘i will try my best to be the best performer possible for you and there is a limit to what i can do that depends on my physical and spiritual integrity. It’s up to you to find out those limits.’
Who can participate: All kinds of individuals of different age (over 18), sex, gender, race, profession with a curiosity to experience the role of a director.
Duration: 60’
Price: 50 euro
Booking: 99182683
Numerology
Evi Haraki Mahera
FIND OUT YOUR SOUL NUMBER!Numerology has many systems, traditions and beliefs, in the mystical or esoteric connection of numbers and physical beings. It was popular among the first mathematicians like Pythagoras. It is no longer considered part of mathematics and is more associated with the metaphysical.
In this one to one short session the number of the participant will be calculated (according to their date of birth) and information will be given regarding his/her Soul characteristics, as well as where he/she is in their life journey at this moment. The individual will be reminded of the timeless perspective of his/her being, outside the limits of time and matter. An understanding which propels the eternal inner child (soul) to activate and take the lead on the stage of everyday life. Self becomes a player, performer, creator, of reality, on the ride of its evolving soul.
This method was used during the creative process of the pieces ‘IntuNition’, ‘Tune In’ and ‘Humans Being’ by .pelma. lia haraki, for which Evi was an artistic mentor.
Who can participate: All kinds of individuals of different age (over 18), sex, gender, race, profession with that want find out more about their energetic body.
Duration: 40’
Price: 30 euro
Booking: 99182683
From motion to emotion
Lia Haraki
MOVING THE NOW!In this one to one session Lia takes the participant on a physical journey to embody whatever is there in the moment, through a process of repetitive movement.
Through focussing on the breath and the heartbeat at first, participants will have the chance to move their way into becoming at ease with their physicality and detach from a notion of fearing movement. As a result, the session promises a purely vibrant body that is ready to take any action of its choice for the rest of the day.
‘From motion to emotion’ is a part of the ‘IntuNiton’ practise which was developed from the choreographer and her collaborators during the making of several works by .pelma. lia haraki
Who can participate:All kinds of individuals of different age (over 18), sex, gender, race, profession with an interest in physicality and movement. No previous dance experience needed.
Duration: 40’
Price: 30 euro
Booking: 99182683
I perform U
Marios Ioannou
ENJOY AN INTERPRETATION OF YOU!This is a unique opportunity to have a performance of the participant, made for the participant. By the end of this session the award winning actor Marios Ioannou will perform a solo in which he will give his own interpretation of who he thinks the participant is. The process of the two hour session includes a walk with Marios with the participant where they spend an hour getting to know each other. Later they return to the shop and Marios creates and performs the solo. Lastly they have a dialogue on what the participant experienced and he can choose if he wants Marios to further develop the solo into a full performance.
If the participant wishes to share this performance with his/her own circle of friends and family, then he/she can book an evening show at the performance shop.
Who can participate: All kinds of individuals of different sex, gender, race, profession and age (over 18), with a curiosity to experience and participate in a creative process for the making of a performance as well as watch a piece made of them and for them.
Duration: 2 hours
Price: 80 euro
Price for a performance: 200 euro
Booking: 99182683
Light Body Activation
Evi Haraki Mahera
EXPERIENCE ENERGETIC TRANSFORMATION!Covered beneath the burdens of the material world, a vibrant and illuminated Light Body, is waiting to come back to light.
Through tuning into frequencies of Light, Reiki and Meditational methods, the energetic field of the participant is examined, in order to unblock trapped matter, release negativity and restore the flow of life.Feedback is then given with advice and recommendations, for each specific person. This includes invocations, bibliography and recommendations for further development.
Light Body Activation is part of ‘Life Shift’, a practice which involves the awakening of the Inner Self towards Transformation. A Shift from normal to natural (normal referring to our social conditioning, natural referring to the immaculate perfection of our true nature). A Shift from the egoic mind, (fear) to the heart, (love).
This method was used during the creative process of the pieces ‘IntuNition’, ‘Tune In’ and ‘Humans Being’ by .pelma.lia haraki, for which Evi was an artistic mentor.
Who can participate: All kinds of individuals of different age (over 18), sex, gender, race, profession with a curiosity to understand more about their energetic body and their connection to their higher self.
Duration: 90’
Price: 60 euro
Booking: 99182683
Mentoring for dance artists
Lia Haraki
HAVE A DIALOGUE ON CREATION!This service will be done both through group and one to one sessions with dance artists that seek to have a dialogue about a creative process they are going through for the making of a piece. Lia will be available to have a series of conversations about the artist’s project which will include basic questions related to the creative process, observations, practical examples, bibliography, printed material and further suggestions focussing on each particular way of working.
Supported by the ministry of education and culture-cultural services.
Who can participate: Dance artists, choreographers, physical theatre and dance performers.
Duration: 3 group workshops (2,9,16 Tuesdays in December) from 9.00-15.00
Price: Free
Booking: send an email with your interest and what you are working on to Lia at pelma@cytanet.com.cy
Transforming the day
Marios Ioannou
THE MANY IN ME!The actor will take you through a journey of experiencing transformations of voice, gesture and energy that you have already stored in your body. It is like spending an hour of zooming into your everyday behavioural patterns and acknowledging the mannerisms you use vocally and physically in your daily life. This process of transformation which you do anyway as a social human depends on which hat you are wearing for each occasion. In other words which role or version of yourself you happen to play at each moment in your everydayness. The session will help you understand how you carry yourself in time and space and become aware of the transformative power you hold since it can have also a big effect on others.
Who can participate: All kinds of individuals of different age (over 18), sex, gender, race, profession with a curiosity to become aware of their transformative power.
Duration: 75’
Price: 40 euro
Booking: 99182683
Introduction to Dance Movement Psychotherapy
Maria Charalambous
A three hours experiential workshop to introduce Dance Movement Psychotherapy and its potential for discovery, change and healing.Themes will include developing an awareness of the philosophy of the mind/body integration, nonverbal communication and emotional expressive movement as well as the process of finding personal meaning in a thoughtful embodied experience.
Who can participate: People who are interested in gaining some insight into dance movement psychotherapy and its applications in dance, health, welfare and education; as well as others who may simply be curious to explore a different application of dance.
Date: 22 November
Duration: 3 hours(16:00-19:00)
Price: 15 euro and 12 euro for students
Booking: 99182683
IntuNition
Lia Haraki and Evi Haraki Mahera
Being in tune with being and moving from that realityIn the workshop the body will be treated as a vessel of information and undoubtable knowledge and will be given the chance to explore its vast universe beyond the limits of form and matter. Participants will have a chance to be introduced to the basic principles of the practise which include meditation techniques, repetitive movement as a transformative tool, work in nature, rituals of cleansing and opening while a big emphasis will be given to working with the heart body part.
The workshop can be a great tool for stress free living, energy management and balance, raising awareness, dissolving feelings of fear and guilt, opening the creative self through physical activity and embracing individual uniqueness.
As Evi Haraki Mahera describes it: ‘Easy practical steps of Tuning to the heartbeat of Life and to the rhythm within. By transcending through movement and tuning into the Love frequency we get to share the experience with others in a process where Me becomes We’
Previous IntuNition workshops:
• Dance House Lemesos November 2012 www.dancehouselemesos.com, www.liaharaki.com
• Studio 11 Cologne March 2013 www.studio11-koeln.de/
• Tanec Praha festival June 2013 www.tanecpraha.cz
• Venice Biennale for visual arts www.oo-oo.co/
Who can participate: All kinds of individuals of different age, sex, gender, race, profession with a strong interest in movement and curiosity to find connections between the formed and formless self. No previous dance experience is needed.
Date: 29 Saturday and 30 Sunday November. Participants should come both days of workshop
Duration: 10.00 till 17.00 including break
Price: 60 euro. And 50 euro for students. To be paid with booking
Booking: 99182683
Nude The Body
Petros Konnaris
‘Nude the body’ is a body practice based on the principles of gymnosophy and Petros Konnaris’ personal research on the nude body. Its main goals are to reach tranquillity and to gain a new perception of the body in time and space. Using the nude body, slow pace, stillness and meditation as the main tools, we can experience a personal nude stroll.Who can participate: The body practice is open to everyone with an interest in nudity regardless of sex, age and physique.
Date: 17 + 24 November (Mondays)
Duration: 2 hours 10.00-12.00 am
Price: 10 euro and 8 for students
Booking: 99182683
Private classics
Marios Ioannou
This is an opportunity to watch the actor perform monologues privately for you and a group of people you choose (you can choose the setting or location). There is a choice of 2 monologues you can choose from:1. ‘The Diary of a Madman by Gogol’ (Cyprus dialect) .This was the first sample of how the Cyprus dialect was used on stage with no guilt. It was directed by award winning director Spiros Charalambous and it has travelled to all of Cyprus ,Cairo ( Experimental Theatre festival) and London ( The Hellenic Centre).It then made a tour at ten remote villages of Cyprus in traditional kafenia (coffee places) and village squares. This is for Mario Ioannou a performance he will never give up. It is seven years old and is still being performed and will continue for a long time.
2.‘The three tagic Ladies’ (Ifigenia-Cassandra and Helena from Euripides) was born in the streets of Berlin. The costume designed for the performance as seen in the streets and on stage was by Melita Kouta. This costume initiated the performance. It travelled to all of Cyprus and Cairo and also Vienna ,Zurich ( in the streets) the buffer zone, the streets of Old Nicosia and especially Ledra Street. It was directed by Emanuelle Balzani.
This can be bought as one performance 45-50 minutes or as 3 separate monologues lasting 15 minutes each.
Price: 300 euro
For the separate monologues (100 euro each)
The homemade project
.pelma.lia haraki
A group of 4-5 performers under Lia Haraki’s direction, spend 2 days in your house improvising and getting to know its identity and energy. They talk to you and your family gathering information about your style, interests and way of living. They finally choose a room or section of the house and create a performance based on the character of your family and its surroundings for you and your guests to watch.Price: 1000 euro
Booking: Book an appointment with the director by sending an email to pelma@cytanet.com.cy
Lia Haraki
Limassol-born Lia Haraki juggles contemporary dance and performance in innovative ways. Haraki views the body as a carrier of identity, yet subject to the transformative potential of performance. At the centre of the artist’s investigation in recent years is what she terms ‘IntuNition’, which seeks to investigate how movement can come as a result of an intuitive impulse.Her works have been presented internationally in festivals like the Kalamata International fetsival, Julidans Amsterdam, The Athens Festival, Royal Festival Hall London, Bozar Brussels and other. She has been awarded two times the choreography award at the Cyprus dance platform (2003, 2005) and her works were two times short listed by the Aerowaves network (2004, 2009). Her choreographic practices ‘Standup PerformDance’ and ‘IntuNition’ are taught to performance makers in structures like Dance House Tilburg and Impuls Tanz in Vienna.
In 2005 she initiated the birth of Dance House Lemesos by inviting other 4 partner companies to share a dance space. Eventually it became the space which supports professional contemporary dance locally and also functions as an international link for Cyprus based dance artists. Lia is the president of its committee.
In 2007 she has been one of the core team that started the dance programme of the University of Nicosia. She is now a part time lecturer of the programme teaching composition based courses.
Last year she was one of the artists that represented Cyprus at the Venice Biennale for visual arts with her solo performance ‘Tune In’ (Special mention for the Cyprus and Lithuania pavilion), that continued touring to 15 European festivals. This year her company .pelma.lia haraki is a co-organiser in the EU Programme ‘The Underwater Heart of the Mediterranean’ and the representative of the Aerowaves network EU Programme, on behalf of Dance House Lemesos.
Her Tedx talk ‘Whatever you perform is right’ was extremely successful in inspiring individuals to dare form what they are being since creativity belongs to all. The concept for ‘the performance shop’ she came up with, is also based on this belief.
www.liaharaki.com
Marios Ioannou
‘Julius Caesar’ by William Shakespeare, the Pope of the Vatikan in ‘Doctor Faustus’ by Christopher Marlowe, ‘Dracula’ by Stoker, ‘Madman’ by Nicolai Gogol, or his role of Ben in the staging of ‘Dogville’ are some of the characters Mr. Ioannou has given life to in the past 13 years of his international acting- and film career. On one of his latest movie performances Dimitris Danikas of the national greek newspaper Ta Nea wrote of Mr. Ioannou’s performance:
“It has been years to see a greek actor keeping
our minds occupied with the movement of the body and
versatility of voice such as that of Mr. Ioannou’s”.
Mr. Ioannou, a greek Cypriot, was born in 1972, and graduated from the Academy of the National Theater of Greece in Athens. Over the years, he has been starring in 24 movie productions impressing with the most diverse of roles such as a raging transvestite, an innocent city employee, or a ruthless army officer. His work further impresses through his versitality in using language and voice as seen in his role of a middle eastern Immigrant in ‘Kalabush’. He stunned the critics in the role of “Mustafah” and in 2004 was awarded the prized
“Thessaloniki Film Festival Award”
for Best Leading Actor.
Mr. Ioannou has played in American and European productions. He performs his roles in English and Greek and is an experienced stage actor with particular love for ancient greek drama and classical plays. Mr. Ioannou played leading roles in Lars van Trier’s “Dogville” and William Shakespeare’s “Julius Ceasar” staged by the National Theater of Greece in Athens.
He currently received the Honorary Award for outstanding performance for his leading role in “Fish n’ Chips” currently travelling Film Festivals in Toronto, Montpellier, Mons, Montreal, and London. His subtly endearing performance as ‘Andy’ was postively reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter.
Evi Haraki Mahera
Evi’s research in spirit science has its reference in various theosophical traditions, cultures, shaman and tribal wisdom, occult knowledge and wisdom of highly evolved societies. She initiated her healing work using Chromatotherapy as the base of her Visual Art project Kidstuff (www.kidstuff-cy.com). Kidstuff is about creating artworks that work as positive energy generators directed to children and the child within every human Being. In 2012 she created the practice "Life Shift" which involves the shift from fear-based living to a love-based existence. "Life Shift" consists of the combination of various disciplines such as Numerology, Meditation, I AM Avatar Yoga, Breathing Techniques, Translating Higher Dimensional Realms and other.She is a Reiki practitioner and has undergone Children of the Sun- Rites of Passage 2012. At the same time she is a creative artist with a focus on painting and a mentor to other artists’ creative processes. Her new project "LovIn ActiOn" is a goodwill movement of love activism which involves the spreading of information to the community and encourages Unity Consciousness.
Maria Charalambous
Maria Charalambous has been dancing since the age of three and her passion for dance has led her to study Dance & education at the University of Nicosia. During that period she had gained a wealth of experience in ballet, contemporary dance, theories in dance education and Laban movement analysis. Her care for helping people and working with individuals with difficulties, motivated her to build a career in therapy and went on to gain a Master’s degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy at the University of Derby. She has been practicing as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist since 2010 in education with children with learning difficulties, autism and cerebral palsy, and with elderly with dementia. She has also volunteered with the British Red Cross as well as various community projects that dwell with refugees. Maria is a registered member of the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK. She attends regular clinical supervision with a senior practician to support clinical practice. To this day she cooperates with the Music Therapy Center “Moysiki Epafi” and Veramand Studio.Petros Konnaris
Petros was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1988. Graduated from the Dance Programme of the University of Nicosia with a first class standing and is a holder of a Mathematics and Statistics degree from the University of Cyprus. On 2012 he participated in the DanceWeb Scholarship program 2012, part of the ImpulsTanz festival in Vienna, Austria. In previous years, Petros has collaborated as a performer with .pelma. lia haraki, Doris Uhlich, Selas Dance Company, Asomates Dinameis, Christos Polymenakos, Christina Patsali, Michelle Panteli and Anthi Pafiou. Petros performed in various European festivals in Austria, Greece, Germany, Sweden and the Czech Republic. The last two years he is researching through choreography, performance and collaborations, issues of identity, nakedness and nudity, honesty and simplicity.Andonis Liveropoulos
Andonis has spent a lifetime in the performing arts as a dancer, choreographer and director having worked in theatre, television, live entertainment and show business. There was always a deeper need for adventure in his performances and an experimental appetite that led him discover contemporary dance, with a continuous interest in developing his own movement language. During the last few years he is collaborating with specific artists that share a common way of creating which seeks ways in placing personal truth on stage.His latest role which is the performance host (receptionist) in ‘The Performance shop’ reveals the diversity of his artistic nature as a truly transformative animal!
AN OCCASIONAL SHOW
.pelma.lia haraki
We are at your disposal to plan an unusual way to draw attention to something you feel is of importance at a particular occasion. We can find innovative ways to apply performing in order to serve a cause. The kind of events that could be a frame for the performances are gala dinners, demonstrations, wedding proposals, party gate crashing, conference interruptions and other. Humour and Humiliation can be interesting ways with which art speaks and inspires thought provoking!Price: to be discussed
Booking: Book an appointment with the director by sending an email to pelma@cytanet.com.cy
Your funeral show
Lia Haraki
Can you even imagine what it would be like if in your funeral there was a performance going on which you had planned, for all who are there to witness?In collaboration with artist Lia Haraki, you can plan and create a performance especially for that day which allows you to still have control over what used to be your identity. The process will include conversations with the artist that dwell in the sphere of immortality and personal values. By the end you will end up with a structure of what should happen on that day and who should execute it. Material for the performance can include your own funeral speech, a video, picture display, kinds of flowers, type of music, process of ritual procedure.
Price: to be discussed
Booking: Book an appointment with the director by sending an email to pelma@cytanet.com.cy
Hand shame
Lia Haraki
This is a private performance where one can experiences reality through the sense of touch. The spectator sits on a chair and puts his/her hand through a hole. His hand becomes the receptor of several sensations by materials that come in contact with it. All materials used are part of nature and the human body. The performance takes place at ‘The performance shop’ so please talk to reception for booking.Price: 10 euro