Lydia Touliatou is a Helsinki-based choreographer and researcher. Her movement practice emerges from the dialogue between her training in classical Indian dance, Bharatanatyam, and Western dance techniques (BA at Trinity Laban).
Her choreographic work is driven by the need to process and reflect on the psyche of human nature affected by the socio-political challenges of today. The core of her experimentation consists of creating novel movement vocabularies with the narrative tools of abhinaya and mudras found in the classical Indian dance form.
Lydia has worked as an assistant researcher in the Terra-Performing research group (Academy of Finland), where in March 2025, she co-authored the article: Heat Work: Choreography as an Ecological Enquiry of Machine Learning and Extractivism. In 2023, she received her Master's in Choreography from the Theatre Academy.
ATROPOS – A fusion of Bharatanatyam and contemporary choreographic methods, this performance embarks on a profound exploration of the connections between death and migration through the rich tapestry of Greek mythology and the lived experience of a female migrant artist. The dancer’s body becomes the meeting point between cultures, where threads of longing, memories, and grievances are spun into a powerful expression of our shared humanity. ATROPOS (‘the unalterable’) is a new, multimedia solo work by dancer, choreographer Lydia Touliatou.
