WILD

A unique opportunity for dancers and movement practitioners to reimagine technique not as hierarchy or competition, but as a shared vessel for resilience, embodiment and growth.

• August 28 – September 16, 2026

arrival August 28 — departure September 16

• 20-day immersive program

• Lefkada, Greece

Paleohori eco-art space

• 84 hours of training

6 hours daily of workshop practice

• Facilitated by Rafaela Sahyoun & Penelope Morout

• Co-living program

shared accommodation & daily meals

collective dialogue & co-regulation circles

• For dancers & movement practitioners

no previous professional experience required

• Sliding scale participation fee until March 31

• Limited number of participants

About

WILD is a 20day late summer intensive dance training and co-living program taking place at Paleohori eco-art space, in Lefkada. A unique opportunity for experienced dancers and movement practitioners to reimagine technique not as a measure of skill or hierarchy, but as a shared vessel for resilience, and growth.

The program questions how dance training often reproduces competition, prioritises productivity, and focuses on self-optimisation. Instead WILD seeks to open an active space where technique becomes a language of care, a process of unlearning, and a collective practice of embodiment.

Some of the questions that this program will deal with…

⫸What can technique offer us beyond perfectionism and performance?

⫸How dancing techniques can enhance our listening to ourselves, others, and the environment?

⫸In what ways can discipline transform into devotion, precision into presence, repetition into ritual?

⫸How can dance become a vessel for resilience, supporting our processes of change, and renewal?

⫸Can training be an act of commemoration, a way to remember those who moved before us, and the more-than-human bodies that move around us?

Facilitators Penelope Morout and Rafaela Sahyoun, will share tools, practices and their overall approach to self mastery by unlocking their own unique experience. 

Rafaela brings her methodological frame The Body The Player The Journey this time focusing on two aspects of her work: Sensorial shape-shift  &  The pulsing anatomy. Through improvisation, play-based scores, and experiential anatomy, participants are invited to explore movement as a sensorial, relational, and shape-shifting field, grounded in perception, attunement, and agency. The work cultivates a physically sustainable and collective process, supporting co-regulation, neural connectivity, and authorial choice within an ever-evolving relational field.

→ Explore more about Rafaela’s practice here 

Penelope brings Sculpting Body-Images, an intensely physical movement practice that approaches the body as a dynamic instrument for poetic expression and dance as an intelligent practice. Through task-based improvisation, playful sculptural processes, and tools drawn from architecture and cinema, participants are invited to explore adaptability, stamina, and continuity while transfiguring habitual movement patterns. The work supports self-mastery as a reflective, embodied process, cultivating presence, personal methodology, and storytelling through movement in relation to space and time.

→ Explore more about Penelope’s practice here 

The program invites participants and facilitators into a constant dialogue by incorporating a co-living set-up, six hours of daily training, circles for emotional co-regulation and critical dialogue.

Who is it for

WILD is addressed to experienced and less experienced dancers who regularly nurture their movement practices.

Participation Fee

 €2100 

The participation fee covers the full 20 day program, including 84 hours of workshops, guided practices and collective activities. In addition, during the program, daily shared meals are offered and participants are hosted in shared living arrangements, at no additional cost. A payment plan in installments is available.

Registration

Fill out the registration form

Pay the deposit within 48 hours

Send confirmation to: paleohoriartspace@gmail.com

Due to the limited number of places, participation is confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you’d like to connect, we’re always happy to arrange a free call to answer your questions and help you feel confident about your participation! 

*This program is open to learners funded through Erasmus+ Adult Education and Youth mobility schemes. Tripudium Collective is registered in the Erasmus+ system and can act as a receiving organisation for Erasmus+ participants. If you are eligible for Erasmus+ funding through a sending organisation, you may use your grant to participate in this program.

If you face any problem with registration, as well as for any questions, please contact us at paleohoriartspace@gmail.com