Workshops w/ Penelope Morout & Vasiliki Tsagkari at “Rest in Motion” Summer Dance program | Lefkada island, Greece
ᴀᴜɢᴜsᴛ 𝟸𝟽 – sᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 𝟹 ⋗ ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 ᴄʏᴄʟᴇ 𝟹
𝕞𝕖𝕝𝕥 : 𝕡𝕠𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝕡𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕖 ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴠᴀsɪʟɪᴋɪ ᴛsᴀɢᴋᴀʀi
𝕊𝕔𝕦𝕝𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔹𝕠𝕕𝕪-𝕀𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕖𝕤 ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴘᴇɴᴇʟᴏᴘᴇ ᴍᴏʀᴏᴜᴛ
A week of movement as transformation—where bodies soften, sharpen, listen, and respond. We will explore dance as an ever-shifting conversation with gravity, rhythm, and imagination. Through play, improvisation, and deep physical exploration, we step beyond habit and into the unknown, tuning into the raw intelligence of the body. Patterns dissolve, new possibilities emerge, and movement becomes a space of discovery—fluid, unpredictable, alive.
𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝
🌀Recognizing personal movement patterns to consciously deconstruct and reconstruct them, cultivating adaptability and new physical possibilities.
🌀Layering Skinner Releasing Technique, improvisation, and the practice of melt-ing to nurture the connection between body and imagination, transforming movement into a sensory experience.
🌀Using poetic imagery from nature, along with anatomy, sound, music, and guided gentle touch-based partner explorations to allow dance to emerge naturally and reshape our sense of self and space.
🌀Experience dance as a shared and relational space, where movement connects us with nature and unfolds as joy, intimacy, and discovery.
🌀Engaging in continuous movement to test bodily structure, generate energy, and develop agility through coordination, rhythm, and elastic footwork.
🌀Cultivating a supportive, judgment-free space where participants inspire and motivate each other, encouraging individuality and collective growth.
𝙰𝚗𝚍…
🫀Heart Circles: Participate in reflective and heartfelt group sharing sessions
🌿Enjoy three delicious and nourishing vegetarian meals daily
🪻Stay in a serene natural environment that supports self-regulation and slow-paced living
☀️Share space with a vibrant like-minded community
🐚 Beach trip on free day
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬
𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐭 (GR-FR), founder of CROSS IMPACT Company, is an interdisciplinary dance artist, intrigued by creating hybrid projects through the fusion of various performing and visual art mediums. Penelope works constantly between Greece and abroad as a performer, choreographer, dance teacher and scenographer. As an educator, she has shaped her own movement practice “Sculpting Body-Images”, which she shares around the world (PERA GAU School of Performing Arts, Munus Encuentro Mexico, Nunart Guinardó Barcelona, Points to Play Mulhouse, Akropoditi International Dance and Performing Arts Festival Syros, Unplugged Dance Lefkada, Kalamata International Dance Festival). Penelope implements in her teaching methodology elements inspired by “Fighting Monkey”, a practice by Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek, with whom she has been training for 15 years.
𝐕𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐢 𝐓𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐢 studied education at the Early childhood Education Department of University of Athens and Dance in City of Bristol College in the U.K. Since 2004 she has been working as an independent dance artist, creating performance work and performing, collaborating with dancers, choreographers, musicians and visual artists, in Greece, UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. Since 2022 she has been working on her own dance pedagogy, MELT, giving workshops about dancing with nature, combining several different influences and approaches on somatics and physical experiences like physically working with the earth and allowing for more than human life to have agency in the process of embodied learning. Her main interests are sensitivity and sensuality in movement, the kinaesthetics of language, as well as the transformation of elements of everyday living into physical poetry. The experience of the body moving that asks to be shared, to be articulated as a public statement. She is a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique (introductory) since 2017.
Where: Paleohori art space, Neohori, Lefkada, Ionian islands, Greece
When: August 27 – September 3, 2025
ℂ𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖?
Find all info about this cycle and how to sign up >
https://paleohori.com/3rd-cycle-august-27-september-3-2025/
Find more info about Rest in Motion summer dance program >
https://paleohori.com/events-posts/rest-in-motion-summer-dance-program-lefkada-island-greece/
PS. Early bird offer applies by March 29th!