Lydia Xourafi is a dance performer, choreographer and choreosomatic trainer. She was born in Lund, Sweden, and is currently based in Athens, Greece. She studied at Stockholm University of the Arts – Department of Performing Arts (Site Specific in Dance Performance), and at the Department of Theatre Studies (BA) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She also trained in Denmark at CISPA.DK and has attended seminars with renowned choreographers and movement educators, including Eva Georgitsopoulou, Elisavet Pliakostathi, Artemis Lampiri, Matan Levkowich, Sara Erlingdotter, Karoline Aamås, Arina Trostyanetskaya, among others. She has worked in Sweden as a performer and movement researcher in the performing arts (TeaterInterakt, CISPA, Project Otherness). She holds a BA/MSc in Social Sciences/Psychology from Lund University.Since 2023, she has been a choreographer and dancer with Tási Dance Co. (Open Nights Festival, Dance Days Chania, Bios, Red Jasper Festival, Trenó sto Rouf/Compartments Dance Festival, ADVP13/Promenade Bageion, Zante Dance Festival). She creates stage performances and video artworks, including Tidal Bodies (Open Nights Festival 2025), Sea/She/See (TAF – The Art Foundation), The Sky Has Not Fallen, Yet (Screendance Festival Stockholm, Dare Dance Festival), Kinships (Art4More Festival), The Precariat (MEME Gallery/PPLG), and Us, Joints (TV Control Center). In 2020, her work Adult Me won the “Best Digital Experience” award at the Stockholm Fringe Festival. Her research explores how bodily and sensory stimuli, along with posthuman and ecofeminist theoretical frameworks, contribute to the development of a choreographic system for generating movement patterns that support relational, audiovisual, and site-responsive movement practices. In spring 2024, she founded Mind Body LAB in Chalandri, a space dedicated to dance-somatic education, research, and therapy, where she works as a facilitator of choreosomatic practices and as a embodiment/narrative therapist. Finally, she is actively engaged in research within the humanities and social sciences through publications and conference presentations in Greece and abroad.