Penelope Morout

A graduate of the National School of Dance (Athens) and the National Technical University of Athens – School of Architecture, with a Master’s degree in Theatre Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL), Penelope Morout is an interdisciplinary dance artist interested in creating hybrid projects through the fusion of various mediums.

As a dancer & performer, she has performed at the Kalamata International Dance Festival, at Athens and Epidaurus Festival, at Teatro de la Danza Guillermina Bravo CDMX and since 2018 she has been working with theatre companies as a director/choreographer/scenographer. As a filmmaker, she has collaborated with TANZAHOi International Screendance Festival Hamburg and has participated in exhibitions and various video dance & dance animation festivals around the world (Italy, Brazil, France, Greece, Indonesia).

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Within the years, she has evolved “Sculpting Body-Images” workshop, which she shares around the world (PERA GAU School of Performing Arts Cyprus, Munus Encuentro Mexico, Nunart Guinardó Barcelona, The School of Disobedience Budapest, Murate Art District Florence). Within 2023, she has created original group pieces in collaboration with Area Espai de Dansa i Creació Barcelona, MUDA Dance Center Ghent and Škola suvremenog plesa Ane Maletić Zagreb. She consistently trains and gets inspired by “Fighting Monkey Practice” (founded by Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek), which she has been teaching since 2021 at the Kalamata International Dance Festival in Greece for participants over 50 years old.

In 2021, Penelope Morout founded CROSS IMPACT Co, and, ever since, is actively creating her own work.

Both her previous performance THE BOX || That Dead Space Between Us, as well as her new one EMOTIONAL DOGS have been funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. For the latter, she has gained additional support from X-Church (Gainsborough, UK), El Sortidor (Barcelona, ES) and the Murate Art District (Florence, ΙΤ).

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WORKSHOP – Sculpting Body-Images

Sculpting Body-Images is a movement workshop of intense physicality, shaped to bring awareness to the conscious act of offering, seeing and perceiving the body in relation to interchangeable elements. All participants are invited to engage into a mapping process: through tasked-based improvisation (body & voice) and game-like situations inspired by Fighting Monkey Practice (founded by Linda Kapetanea & Jozef Frucek), we will recognize-deconstruct-reconstruct personal patterns, identify compositional modes of working, and reflect upon the relationship between what is presented and how it is presented. We will work both alone and in couples or groups. There will be physical contact in order to manipulate the body and we will focus on stimulating the nervous system, increasing stamina and developing motor skills that improve agility through coordination, rhythm and elastic footwork skills.

Building upon the idea of a caring, judgment-free community, where all members are encouraged to embrace their individuality and weave their unique artistic voice, we will approach physical exploration with curiosity, playfulness and generosity. SBI is a story-telling practice: it is about approaching the moving body from a 360° view and consciously choosing how, what and why we want to communicate with the world. All stories matter: they nourish our interaction with others and our connection with ourselves.

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Aims & Objectives / Sculpting Body-Images by Penelope Morout

  • Refining and articulating practice through tasked-based physical improvisation (body & voice)
  • Recognizing personal movement patterns, in order to consciously deconstruct and reconstruct them, when applicable.
  • Embracing the child within and allowing a creative, playful, curious, creative approach to physical exploration.
  • Engaging in constant movement and testing our bodily structure, in order to find ways of generating energy throughout the entire duration of the class, without actual pause.
  • Stimulating the nervous system, increasing stamina and developing motor skills that improve agility through coordination, rhythm and elastic footwork skills.
  • Critically developing dramaturgical and compositional modes of working
  • Reflecting on the relationship between what is presented and how it is presented.
  • Supporting, inspiring and motivating each other within a safe learning space
  • Building upon the idea of a caring, judgment-free community, where all members are encouraged to express and embrace their individuality as a valuable asset to the learning process and the individual and collective development.
Penelope Morout

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