Lydia Xourafi
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Lydia Xourafi is a choreographer and dancetheater artist. She was born in Lund, Sweden, and is now based in Athens. She studied in the Department of Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), in Stockholm University of the Arts and trained in Archi Performing Arts School and and CISPA.DK. She has been a dancer and choreographer of Tási Dance Collective since 2023 (Dance Days Chania, Open Nights Festival, Red Jasper Festival, Train at Rouf/Compartments Dance Festival, ADVP13/Promenade Bageion, Zante Dance Festival). She creates dance performances and video artworks (Bodies of Chthulucene – NKUA &TV Control Center, The Sky has Not Fallen, Yet – Screendance Festival Stockholm, Dare Dance Festival; Kinships – Art4more Festival; The Precariat – MEMEgallery/PPLG; Us, Joints – TV Control Center). In 2020 her work Adult Me won the award for “Best Digital Experience” at Stockholm Fringe Festival. Her practice focuses on embodied dramaturgy and choreographic composition. Her research investigates how somatic, posthuman, and ecofeminist frameworks inform the development of a motif-generative choreographic system that supports relational, audiovisual, and site-responsive movement practices. She has worked in Sweden as a performer and movement researcher in the performing arts (TeaterInterakt, CISPA, Project Otherness). She also holds an MSc in Social Sciences/Psychology (Lund University). In spring 2024 she founded Mind Body LAB in Chalandri, a space for movement, research, and embodiment therapy, where she works as a movement instructor and somatic/narrative psychotherapist. She is also active in academic artistic research through publications and conference presentations in Greece and abroad.
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