Lydia Xourafi
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bodily .
. dances
choreographic .
. landscapes
embodying .
. narratives
self as stories. is a process of artistic research with a core focus on transforming narratives,
memories and social stories into choreographic and
performative dance compositions. Somatic and kinetic techniques are explored in order to transform texts,
interviews, testimonies, and images into embodied landscapes but also to create a new reflective
discourse.
Mind Body LAB. classes and seminars aim in the development of a collaborative somatic and kinetic expression through through the use of dance practices, embodiment, movement improvisation, analysis of theoretical approaches and creative
dialogue. Group reflection in different stages of artistic research is also an important element of our participatory work.
ACTIONS
2026
-Kitsune No Ma(狐の間)Solo dance performance, Labyrinth Exhibition by Athx Collective,
at Plex Athens, Kerameikou 28, May 2026
"The kitsune, a mythological creature from Japanese folklore, moves within a field of moral ambiguity and shifting relations, where its presence is connected to a form of poetic justice. Through continuous transformation and the ability to change form, it adopts identities and kinetic language.
Deception and illusion function as means for the enactment of poetic justice, as mechanisms through which perception is shifted and relations within the field of the real are reconfigured.
Within this framework, the kitsune does not remain fixed in a single identity or position, but moves continuously between worlds and states as a mediating presence that connects the ethereal and the earthly, the human and the non-human, within a hybrid and liminal space of coexistence and transformation.
In current reality this figure reappears within the urban landscape of Athens. Foxes move through streets and in-between spaces as silent observers of a shifting reality. in the present choreographic research, the kitsune is approached as a form of embodiment (figuration), following postmodern feminist phenomenological approaches. The body operates as a site of transition where oppositions coexist and transform."
2025
-Tidal Bodies (Choreographer), Dance Performance Tási Dance Co., Open Nights Festival 2025
-Sea/She/See (Choreographer/Performer), Dance Performance & video installation, Tási Dance Co., TAF The Art Foundation
-Unapologetically, YET | (Performer) A sound movement impro performance, Tási Dance Co. & Akrawa (music), To Pano Spiti
2024
-Bodies of Chthulucene: Kinships, (Choreographer/Performer)Multidisciplinary Dancetheater Performance, Art4more Festival
-JIRITO, (Performer)Site-Specific Performance, Tási Dance Co., New creators and Public space - Dance Days Chania14
-Subrealities (Performer), Dance Performance, Tási Dance Co. at BIOS.PIREOS84
2023
-Bodies of Chthulucene: The sky has not fallen, yet, (Choreographer/Performer) Video Dance (part of artistic research project for Theatre Studies Department - Athens National Kapodistrian University), Stockholm Screendance Festival, Dare Dance Festival 2023
-Bodies of Chthulucene: The sky has not fallen, yet: work in progress, (Choreographer/Performer), Multidisciplinary dance performance, Tv Control Center
2021-2022
-Embodying Narratives: physical theater workshop, Tanzterrain kinetic dance space
-Testa: IDs in transition, (Co-choreographer/Performer) dance performance in collaboration with Trial& - Performing Arts, Compartments Dance Festival 2022, AVDP13 - Promenade at Bagion Hotel, Zante Dance Festival
- RE-narrating space: Performance synthesis workshop, Aspalathos artspace
- Medusa: a tentacle system, (Co-choreographer/Performer) visual & dance research project in collaboration with Trial& - Performing Arts
- AdultMe, (Choreographer) video art project in collaboration with Riscus Theatre Group (12th Athens Dance Video Project - Cine Trianon 2021, 1st Aigio International Film Festival 2022, Stockholm Fringe Festival 2022)
2020-2021
- Body - Semion - Emotion: Movement research workshop, omikron3 artspace May 2021
- Bodyscapes: Opening inner crypts, artistic research, Aparamillon art space, December 2020
2019-2020
- Kypseli: Old and New Playscapes - site-specific research project for Stockholm University of the Arts, 2019-2020
- The Precariat: A work in Progress - (Choreographer/Performer), MEME gallery residency, PPLG conference 2019
- Us, Joints, (Co-choreographer/Performer), dance performance in collaboration with Trial& - Performing Arts, Tv Control Center
- Participatory and Physical Theater Workshops - Utopia Laboratory, 2018-2020





















