third cycle

third cycle

August 27 – September 3, 2025

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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.

MELT invites participants into a deep somatic exploration, integrating the Skinner Releasing Technique, ecosomatic practices, and improvisation to discover fluidity, alignment, and a sense of interconnectedness with the environment. Alongside, Sculpting Body-Images challenges participants through intense physicality, task-based improvisation, and game-like structures, inspired by Fighting Monkey Practice. This workshop fosters agility, perception, and storytelling through movement, creating a dynamic interplay between personal expression and collective composition.

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Melt : poetic practice with Vasiliki Tsagkari 

A workshop that is layering Skinner Releasing Technique , improvisation technologies and the practice of melt-ing.
Through elements of Skinner Releasing Technique of Joan Skinner, the poetic mind/body is being nurtured, imagination becomes a kinaesthetic experience.

With poetic imagery inspired by nature, interwoven with anatomy,

with sound and music

and with specific partner graphics (concise somatic studies through touch),

participants are invited to allow dance to simply manifest itself and possibly, instantly transform the self and space.

Expanding from the Skinner Releasing Technique material, dance improvisation becomes a process where by means of language, imagination and physicality, a non-authoritative relationship with the self could perhaps be cultivated. We are
seeking for the cracks, where movement can escape the normative and surrender to lifeforce dynamics.

In this way as I move, as I dance I am becoming a window through which images, sensations, mysteries, can flow into transient forms. An approach of the body and imagination as fields of insurrection, in a state where, at any moment, both could become insurrective seed or ground.

This workshop is also growing out of the melt practice and pedagogy. Melt creates space for different influences and practices to melt and mould together. It is a pedagogy that is oriented towards incorporating the more-than-human in dance and movement education.

In Melt:poetic practice, as we engage in a quest for kinaesthetic bliss, we will play and grow our bodies as plant, animal, soil and water bodies, in resonance with the surroundings.

We will work so that dance can be weaved as a poetic, relational practice, a shared space where we collectively listen for ways to imagine our worlds anew in every gesture, every word, in every way of being. Dance liquefies and becomes
recomposed as a place of shameless joy, intimacy and, at the same time, discourse.

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Sculpting Body-Images with Penelope Morout

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 

• 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 into 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 (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. Graduated from 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), her artistic identity lies on a durational creative process, during which academic and artistic research are intrinsically connected with her movement practice. Her latest performance EMOTIONAL DOGS was realized under the auspices and the financial support of the Greek Ministry of Culture and, continuing having the support of the latter, is scheduled to tour during 2025.

Penelope works constantly between Greece and abroad as a performer, choreographer, dance teacher and scenographer. As a filmmaker she has participated in exhibitions and video dance & dance animation festivals worldwide. 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.