THIS IS A SHOP THAT CREATES the frame
for any individual to WITNESS
perFoRMANCE AS A UNIQUE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
for any individual to WITNESS
perFoRMANCE AS A UNIQUE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Open Call to Performance makers
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The
Performance
shop
The Performance shop is a project conceived and organized by performing
and performance artist Lia Haraki and her company .pelma.lia haraki.It was initially created in the frame of the Nicosia Pop Up Festival 2014 organized by the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre and this year it is popping up again in the city of Lemesos. This year the Performance shop is funded by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus.
The conception of the shop is based on the idea that any individual can gain accessibility to the world of performance which is treated here as an experience rather than a spectacle, as a pathway to self-awareness rather than entertainment, as the ultimate luxury of our time which comes down to experiencing something totally unique !
The shop includes Performances by Lia Haraki and other invited local and international artists. Visitors have the chance to choose from a variety of shows from the following sections:
-‘Private performances’ created to be experienced by one audience member.
-‘Performances to order’ which an individual can order and select a location for.
-‘Invited works’ which are complete performance works hosted within the premises of the shop (see programme)
-‘On Display shows’ by invited artists that share parts of their artistic research in the window of the shop (see programme)
-‘Workshops’ related to performance practices
The working Team:
Artistic Director: Lia Haraki
Managing Director: Marina Makris
Space Design: Vanessa Kirzi
Graphics: Despina Kannaourou
Technical director: Yiangos Hadjiyiannis
Shop assistant: Elena Kallinikou
PRIVATE PERFORMANCES
PERFORMANCES TO ORDER
ON DISPLAY SHOWS
INVITED WORKS
Workshops
HAND
by Lia Haraki
THE SILENT DINNER
by Lia Haraki
SKIN
by Lia Haraki
IN MY DREAMS I'M STILL LYING NEXT TO YOU
by Demetra Kallitsi
SURFACE.TENSION
by Kiriakos Spirou
Private classics
by Marios Ioannou
THE HOMEMADE PROJECT
by Lia Haraki
Your funeral show
by Lia Haraki
Performances in the window shop - Full Programme
THE ACTIVE SPECTATOR
by Lia Haraki
MOTHERLAND
by Sterinai Tsintziloni
SOMETIMES I'M ARrt
by Nikolas Kasinos
PLAYFORMANCE DAY for kids
by Maria Charalambous / Lia Haraki
INTUNITION
by Evi Haraki Mahera / Lia Haraki
The Artists
Lia Haraki
Marios Ioannou
Arianna Marcoulides
Steriani Tsintziloni
Nikolas Kasinos
Demetra Kallitsi
Kiriakos Spirou
Petros Konnaris
Maria Charalambous
Alexis Vasiliou
Evi Haraki Mahaira
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Contact
www.theperformacenshop.orgEmail address: shoptheperformance@gmail.com
Facebook: The Performance Shop
#theperformanceshop
Tel : + 357 99 261 838
Address: Saripolou 14 Limassol
THE SILENT DINNER
by Lia Haraki
The silent dinner is a performance where the participant/spectator shares a meal with the performer
in silence. The shared experience creates a space where both players communicate and meet
themselves beyond speech. The performer guides the spectator to exchange worlds by sharing much
more than food in an hour where personal realizations about morality and mortality reveal themselves in the most delicious manner!Concept / Direction: Lia Haraki
Performance / Improvisation: Arianna Marcoulides
Picture by: Harry Antoniades
Duration: 1 hour
Price: 25 euro (including food and wine)
Booking: 99261838
IN MY DREAMS,
I’M STILL LYING NEXT TO YOU
by Demetra kallitsi
A double duvet is installed across the floor, where the artist lays, inviting the viewer to join
her in this intimate act of sharing a bed; a mutual space where two strangers can experience
how each body melts into each other as they become more accustomed to smell, shape,
and respiration. The performance identifies the body as a tool for investigating the human existence and behavior and attempts to break down the pre-defined roles of the ‘artist/performer’ and the ‘viewer’ by focusing on the primary principal of two bodies pressured/juxtaposed/’in-conversation’ with each other. The ‘struggle' seems to subside,
when embraced by two warm arms, when leaning on someone’s shoulder, by the simple feeling of lying next to someone. Lying is a political statement.
Idea, research and implementation: Demetra Kallitsi
Photo: Resat Korel - ‘drained’ exhibition, 2013, Gallery 40, Brighton - UK
Dates: 6 and 21 December
Duration: From 20.30 to 22.30
Price: Free
Booking: No booking needed
THE ACTIVE SPECTATOR
by Lia Haraki
The ACTIVE SPECTATOR is a solo performance where the actor uses information produced by the audience in order to create the structure and material of the performance on the spot. The piece is performed for a limited amount of audience (up to 10 people) who are willing ‘to play’ and be involved in the fictional situations created. The actor will deal with their actions and reactions by transforming them into more material for play. In general THE ACTIVE SPECTATOR is a show based on ‘transformation’ which soon becomes the common code for everyone in the room!Concept / Direction: Lia Haraki
Performance / Improvisation: Marios Ioannou
Dates: 13, 20, 27, 30 December at 21.00
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: 12 and 10 euro
Booking: 99261838
MOTHERLAND
by Steriani Tsintziloni
The grafitto on a wall of Athens wrote: "Our childhood is our motherland".Our childhood prescribes and affects in different degrees our adulthood. In a positive or a negative way, with nostalgia or guilt we tend to carry our memories. Our life has a certain sensibility because our childhood had a particular feeling, even though everything in our life might be different...
We may feel nostalgia...
Or we may be puzzled...
Or we may laugh...
Or we may cry...
A moment, an image, a place, a face that come as from 'another country', the country of our youth, the country of our past, a country that is ours.
The real or fictional stories refer to something that existed in the past but it is not present anymore, or to something that exists in a different way, or to something that did not exist despite our wish.
But all these stories have a meaning for you today.
Concept/ performance: Steriani Tsintziloni
The texts of the performance are granted by: Danae Thodoridou, Konstantina
Theodorou, Christina Katsari, Panagiotis Kotsolis (from the performance 50’00’’ Short Stories), Vasilis Noula, Eleni Tzirtzilaki, Theofilo Trambouli, Steriani Tsitziloni. The lecture-performance is part of an on-going research on dance, history and identities.
Dates: 11 December at 21:00
Duration: 40 minutes
Price: 12 and 10 euro
Booking: 99261838
SOMETIMES I'M ARrt
by Nikolas Kasinos
Exploring the potentialities of gender and identity through the continuous palimpsest
of performance. Transformation and/or frustration are portrayed and experienced
through characters manifesting spontaneously from the act of live interactive performance,
exposing the self in a metamorphosis, through which we can understand the materiality of our expressive modes.Concept/Performance: Nikolas Kassinos
Date: 18 of December
Duration: 30 minutes
Price: 12-10 Euro
Booking: 99261838
SURFACE, TENSION
By Kiriakos Spirou
Description: A semi-improvised solo piano performance for one or two members of
audience at a private location. Sweeping, sonorous arpeggios generate a
mesmerising drone soundscape which blends with, and reacts to, the city’s sounds.
Part meditation, part mini-concert, the performance takes a plunge into the depths of
sonority and listening; members of audience are welcomed as guests to a private
meeting, where they are invited to explore a more attentive, or tactile even, mode of
experiencing sound. The performance lasts about 15 minutes.Music and Performance : Kiriakos Spirou
Duration: 15 minutes
Price: 15 euro (one or two audience members)
Booking: 99261838
Hand
By Lia Haraki
This is a performance where one can experience reality through the touch of a HAND. The
spectator sits on a chair and is given directions through a set of head phones. He/She makes a
choice of music and soon after puts his/her hand through a hole.
The hand meets a human body on the other side!
Concept / Direction / Music selection: Lia Haraki
Performance / Improvisation: Several performers (It is best for the piece their names to remain unknown)
Many thanks to Panos Bartzis
Duration: 15 minutes
Price: 15 euro
Booking: 99261838
SKIN
by Lia Haraki
SKIN is a performance for one person who blind folded enters a journey of listening and sensing.
The whole body acts as a gate of perception, receiving information mostly through touch and sound
which trigger an inner playground of sensations, emotions and ideas to evolve. The work gives the
opportunity to the one audience member to come in contact with a vulnerable and sensitive part of
the self by allowing the piece to have an impact on their existence, even momentarily.
The 3 performers in SKIN are never seen or announced allowing the work to exist exclusively in the
perception and imagination of the spectator. The spectator becomes the main material for the
performers and therefore a protagonist himself/herself.SKIN is
A tribute to vulnerability
A test of trust
A safe place to feel
Concept / Direction: Lia Haraki
Performance / Improvisation: Several performers (It is best for the piece their names to remain unknown)
Music advisor: Panos Bartzis
Duration: 30 minutes
Price: 20 euro
Booking: 99261838
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: 12 December
Duration: 10.00 till 13.00 including break
Price: 10 euro 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
by Marios Ioannou
An opportunity to watch the actor perform monologues privately for you and a
group of people you choose, as well as in a location of your choice (indoor or
outdoor). There is a choice of 2 monologues you can choose from:
1. ‘The Diary of a Madman by Gogol’ (Cyprus dialect) .This is the first sample of how the Cyprus dialect can be used on stage with no guilt, appropriate to suit the spirit of a masterpiece such as this unique monologue of Nicolais Gogol.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 it is still being performed and will continue for a long time.
Direction: Spiros Charalambous
Performance: Marios Ioannou
Duration: 45 minutes
Price: 200 euro
Booking: 99261838
2. ‘The three tagic Ladies’ (Ifigenia-Cassandra and Helena from Euripides) were initiated by an amazing costume Melita Kouta created for Marios, for the streets of Berlin. Then the play took a more refined shape in the hands of collage artist and director Emanuelle Balzani. The piece travelled to many places in Cyprus (the buffer zone, the streets of Old Nicosia and especially Ledra Street) as well as Cairo, Vienna and Zurich.
Direction: Emanuelle Balzani
Performance : Marios Ioannou
Costume: Melita Kouta
Duration: 15 minutes each monologue but also as One performance 45 minutes
Price: This can be bought as one performance 200 euro
As separate monologues 80 euro each
Booking: 99261838
THE HOMEMADE PROJECT
By Lia Haraki
A group of 4 performers spend 3 days in the spectator’s house with their family, getting to know its identity, energy and history. The performers gather information about the interests, habits and way of living of the family. They gradually create a performance based on their experience! The performance can be watched by the family and their guests on the 3rd night.Concept / Direction: Lia Haraki in collaboration with the performers
Duration: 45 minutes
Price: 700 euro (including the performer’s fees and the performance fee)
Booking: 99 261838
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.She studied BA dance theatre
at the Laban centre in London. Her works have been presented internationally in festivals like the
Kalamata International fetsival, Julidans Amsterdam, The Athens Festival, Royal Festival Hall
London, Bozar Brussels Unesco Paris, Aerowaves Festival, The Place London, Tanec Praha, Kleines
Haus Dresden, Korzo The Hague, Euro-scene Leipzig 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 and its representative for the Aerowaves network
EU Programme and Dance Web Europe.In 2007 she has been in the core team who created the
dance programme of the University of Nicosia. She is now a part time lecturer of the programme
teaching dance composition based courses. In 2013 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. In September
2015 she curated the 6th Open House International dance festival of Dance House Lemesos with the
title ‘SEXPECTATIONS’.Her latest project entitled ‘The performance Shop’ is a shop that sells private
performances as unique experiences for anyone to have. The project attracted the attention of
different international artists and institutions abroad with several proposals for its future
development.Her Tedx talk ‘Whatever you perform is right’ was extremely successful in inspiring
audiences to dare form what they are being. This year she is collaborating together with French
choreographer Sophie Bulbulyan and Greek choreographer Apostolia Papadamaki within the frame of
the EU project ‘The underwater Heart of the Mediterranean’ that presented the first ever underwater
dance performance.
www.liaharaki.com
Marios Ioannou
Marios Ioannou is an actor/performer born in Paphos and currently based in Limassol. His love for
theatre since a very early age led him to pursue acting studies at the Academy of the National
Theatre of Greece from where he graduated in 1994. As an actor for twenty years Marios has been
blessed with many roles some of which include: the madman in Gogol’s “Diary of a Madman”, the
pope of Vatican in “Faustus” by Christofer Marlowe, Woyzeck from the classic masterpiece of Georg
Buchners, Ben in the staging of “Dogville”, Ifighenia, Cassandra and Helena in the ancient Greek
trilogy devised by himself. He cooperated with fine directors both in Greece and Cyprus. His acting
repertoire is impressive and extensive, ranging from ancient tragedy to contemporary devised theatre
and stand-up comedy shows. He is currently touring in Europe with the theatre piece “The Fear
Industry”. He has also been staring in numerous film productions impressing with the most diverse of
roles. Hollywood Reporter compliments his performance as endearing and subtle in “Fish n Chips”
which won third price at the Toronto Film Festival in 2011. Stunning the critics at the Thessaloniki Film
Festival as the leading actor in the film “Kalabush” he earned the prized Award for Best Leading
Actor. He has been staring in 3 new productions-“Bourek”,”Rosemarie” and “Sunrise in Kimmeria”.
He has appeared as an actor in more than thirty movies. He has cooperated with Lia Haraki in the
past and he considers working with her, refreshing and challenging. The Performance shop is a
project he dearly loves and believes in.
Arianna Marcoulides
Arianna Marcoulides is a was born in Limassol in 1982. She is a contemporary dancer, performer and
teacher. Arianna studied at SEAD (Salzburg) from 2001 until 2004. With her return to Cyprus she
worked with many of the burgeoning dance companies and choreographers on the island such as Lia
Haraki and Alexis Vassiliou. Between 2007 and 2009 studied at the Hochschule fur Musik und
Darstellende Kunst (Frankfurt) for an MA in Contemporary Dance Education. From 2006 to current
date- parallel to making her own pieces- she has regularly worked with many distinguished
choreographers. Her choreographic and performance works include: "Fellow People" in 2009 with
Katja Mustonen and Patrick Giesberts, "Reform" (site-specific performance) in 2009, "About Side
Walks" (dance video) with Eleana Alexandrou and Eva Korae, "Shelf life" in 2011, "Along the
Way...Forgotten" in 2013, “Step.4.2” in 2014 and "Stomach Rumblings" in 2015. In 2011 she was
granted a DanceWeb scholarship. From 2012-2013 she was one of the five resident artists of the E-
motional Artistic Research Programme (under the guidance of Cosmin Manulescu). In 2013 she was
the movement coordinator and coach for the theatre piece, “Faust” under the direction of Stephanos
Droussiotis for the Kipria Festval where she was nominated for 'Best Choreography' in the THOC
Annual Theatre Awards. She was a resident artist at the Old Vinegar House performance space
(Limassol/Cyprus) in 2013 and 2014 and at Dance House Lemesos in 2014 and 2015.
Steriani Tsintziloni
Steriani Tsintziloni, a former dancer and ballet teacher, is a dance history scholar and researcher.
She holds a PhD from the University of Roehampton (UK) and an MA in Dance Studies (University of
Surrey), supported by a scholarship by “Alex. Onassis Public Benefit Organisation”. She is also a
graduate of the State School of Dance (Distinction) and the Department of Education, University of
Crete. Steriani worked as Research Associate for the Kalamata International Dance Festival, the
“Isadora and Raymond Duncan” Dance Research Centre and independent projects and teaches
dance history at professional dance schools, university courses and seminars. She is co-founder and
member of the Editorial Board of the online Manifesto Lexicon of the Performance Studies
International and she was co-curator of the Performance Studies International Regional Research
Cluster held in Athens in 2011. Her current interests focus on critical dance history of the 20th century,
on dance, politics and bodies and on convergences of forms (conference presentations, publications
but also lecture-performances) as part of an on-going research process on dance, history and
formation of identities.
Nikolas Kasinos
Born in Cyprus and currently based in Berlin, Nikolas Kasinos received his undergraduate degree in
Film & Video from London College of Communication, UAL in 2011. He is the multidisciplinary artist
behind the online platform Sometimes I’m ARrt, the co-founder and co-director at Ouroboros, where
he works as a freelance filmmaker, and one of the creators of artist-run collective Relapse. Current he
is working on the performance “Cyborg Sunday” directed by Dinis Machado. He has exhibited and
performed in several venues in London and Europe including Royal College of Art, David Roberts Art
Foundation, Weld, and Cafe OTO.
Demetra Kallitsi
Born in 1989, in the city of Nicosia, Cyprus, Demetra Kallitsi completed her MA in Fine Arts at The
University of Brighton, 2013 and a BA in Visual Arts at the University of Salford, Manchester, 2012.
Kallitsi has participated in group exhibitions, workshops and solo and collaborative performances, in
Cyprus and the United Kingdom and has collaborated with various artists from around the world. Her
art practice is personal and autobiographical, where this element of exposure allows the artist to
perform a form of public catharsis. Her art practice unfolds over a variety of different media including
performance, video art and text.
Kiriakos Spirou
Kiriakos Spirou is a pianist, composer and writer born in 1984 in Limassol. After studying piano
(2008), musicology (2009) and composition in Athens, he moved to the Netherlands, where he
completed a Master's in electroacoustic composition at the Utrecht School for the Arts (2013). He has
composed music extensively for contemporary dance theatre, often as a collaborator of
choreographer Ana Sanchez-Colberg. His music has been performed in Greece, Cyprus, the
Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Poland and the UK. In 2010 he was awarded third prize at the annual
composition competition on the Greek Composers' Union for his work "Play". He currently lives in
Athens, where he is working as a pianist for dance schools; he is also the senior editor at international
webzine yatzer.com.
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, where during that period has gained a wealth of experience in ballet, contemporary, theories in dance education and Laban movement analysis. Her care for helping people and working with individuals with difficulties, motivate her to build a career in therapy and went on to gain a Masters 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.
Alexis Vasiliou
Alexis Vassiliou was born in Limassol in 1978. He studied music (B.A in Music) at the University of East Anglia- United Kingdom (1998-2001), composition of music for films and theatre at the University of Bristol- United Kingdom (2001-2002) and dance (Diploma in Dance Studies) at Trinity-Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance- United Kingdom (2007-2008). In 2008 he was selected for the Dance-Web scholarship programme at the 25th ΙmpulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival in Austria.He directed /choreographed the works: Blissfully Happy (2009) , Peep Hole (2010) , Snap (2011) , Blame It On Me (2012) , Generation Y (2012) , Please Be Gentle (2013) , Stay With Me (2014) , sheisheisheis.him/ work in progress (2015) και Noon (2015) .With Please Be Gentle he was selected as an Aerowaves Dance Network priority company for 2014 and participated in several festivals abroad . The work was co- produced by Act Your Age: Dance House Lemesos / Centro per la Scena Contemporanea/ Dutch Dance Festival. With support from EU Culture Programme 2007-2013 he collaborated with the following dance and theatre companies/organisations: Solipsism, pelma.liaharaki, Omada Pende, En Drasi, Interact, Echo-Arts , One/Off, T.H.O.C, Versus, Theatro Ena, Alpha Square.During 2012 and 2013 he was selected to participate in the European programme E-motional Bodies and Cities (Artistic research- Artistic residency) and Act you Age.
Evi Haraki Mahaira
Evi started off with the legal (LLB) work until her need for more colour and freedom led her to Art. She began her Art Studies (OCA, UK) and created her project ‘Kidstuff ‘which resulted to her first solo exhibition. Later on, she was invited to Mentor the creative process of solo 'Tune In' (by .pelma. lia haraki) and co-teach its resulting workshops 'IntuNition', which led to the emergence of her, practice ‘Life Shift’ and work ‘LovIN Action’. In 2015 she had another solo exhibition ‘...and GOD/DESS created Life.’
Petros Konnaris
Petros was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1988. He is currently enrolled in the University of the Arts
Helsinki in the Live Art and Performance Studies MA program in Finland. He has a BA in Dance from
University of Nicosia with first class standing and is a holder of a Mathematics and Statistics degree
from University of Cyprus. On 2012 he participated in the DanceWeb Scholarship program 2012, part
of the ImpulsTanz festival in Vienna, Austria. The previous years Petros has collaborated with
.pelma.lia haraki, Doris Uhlich, Selas Dance Company, Asomates Dinameis, Christos Polymenakos,
Christina Patsali, Arianna Marcoulides, Eleana Alexandou, Michelle Panteli and Anthi Pafiou. Petros
performed in various European festivals and venues such as ImpulsTanz in Austria, Opera Estate/B-
Motion in Italy, Athens Festival in Greece, Frankfurt Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Politik im Freien
Theater in Germany, MDT in Sweden, ARCA theatre in Czech Republic and Next festival in Belgium.
The last years Petros is researching through performance, live art and collaboration issues of the
naked body, playfulness, togetherness, experientiality, nakedness and participatory art.
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
By Lia Haraki
Funerals are performances and performance rituals.In collaboration with artist Lia Haraki, individuals can plan and create a performance especially for that day which allows them to still have control over what used to be their identity. The process will include conversations with the artist that dwell in the sphere of personal values and aesthetics. By the end there will be a structure planned and created of what should happen on that day and who should execute it. Material for the performance can include any of the following elements: a funeral speech, a video, picture display, choices of flowers, music and types of rituals and actions that can take place on that day.
Concept / Direction: Lia Haraki with the individual
Duration: as many sessions needed to create the performance
Price: negotiable
Booking: 99261838 or email us at shoptheperformance@gmail.com
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
ON DISPLAY SHOWS
On Display shows are nights where one to two artists are invited to improvise or show a sample of their work in the window shop.
The shows are for the passers by and for anyone to watch.
All On Display shows are free of charge but there will be 2 boxes for donations for RADIOMARATHONIOS and THE RED CROSS Performances start at 21.00
Programme:
5 / 12‘On Display’: Acapella Solo Loop – Christina Papakyriakou 21:00
7 / 12‘On Display’: Argyris Argyrou 21:00
12 / 12‘On Display’ Irini Kourouvani/ Christina Patsali 21:00
14 / 12‘On Display’: Antonis Liveropoulos 21:00
19 /12‘On Display’: Evripides Laskarides 21:00
28 / 12On Display’: Alexis Vassiliou 21:00