About | Lidadoumouliaka

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Lida Doumouliaka born in Athens, Greece in 1994, is a choreographer, dancer and musician. She finds her artistic interest in combining her music compositions with creative movement material and embodying music scores to bring on stage worlds where music and dance coexist.

After graduating from the Greek National School of Dance in 2016, she performed for Hellenic Dance Company, repertoires of many important choreographers such as Akram Khan, Martha Graham, Jasmin Vardimon etc.

Alongside she began to choreograph and experiment in composing the music for her own creations. Gradually she started participating with her works in some Greek Dance Festivals and she has been working as a freelance choreographer, musician and dance teacher ever since.

In 2018 she became a member of Simone Mongelli's Body Music Company, where she has been performing as a singer and body percussionist until today.

Since 2020 she has been living in Zürich, Switzerland where she also did the Master Degree in "Dance, Choreography" in Zurich University of the Arts. During this period she managed to complete her internship on the side of "Malpaso" Dance Company of Cuba, work and choreograph for the company.

In 2022 she was selected to participate in the "Hannover Choreographic Competition" with her work "Traces" and one year later, she presented her new creation named "Chrónos" for the BA Contemporary Dance students of ZHdK, accompanied by live musicians on stage.

Her creation for the Luzerner Theatre named “Spring of Rites”, premiered in October 2023 and it was part of the production evening called “Exploration of Energy”.

Last season, Lida created a new choreographic work called "We live in a society" for the Bachelor Contemporary Dance of ZHdK. The piece was a different approach to Igor Stravinsky's " Petrushka", with a live music ensemble accompanying the dancers.

Currently, the choreographer and her team are touring their new piece named "Chase the Rabbit" which was created during their residency period at the "Residenzzentrum tanz+" in Baden of Switzerland. Within 2024, the piece was presented at the "Short Cuts" competitional part of Tanzionlten Dance Festival, where it was selected in the final four pieces out of the 54 applications. Moreover, "Chase the Rabbit" was selected to be part of the InciDanse Dance Festival of Fribourg, where it was also awarded with the first prize-the "Carte "Blanche". The new season is about to bring more artistic opportunities that are to be announced soon.