Workshops w/ Penelope Morout & Vasiliki Tsagkari at “Rest in Motion” Summer Dance program | Lefkada island, Greece
August 27 – September 3 – Rest in Motion Cycle 3
melt: poetic practice with Vasiliki Tsagkari
Sculpting Body-Images with Penelope Morout
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!