Paleochori

WILD

techniques

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Who is it for

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

Dates

August 28 – September 13, 2026

Participation Fee

We invite you to choose the fee option that best reflects your current financial situation. Paleohori Eco-Art Space is an independent, self-funded, non-profit project sustained entirely through participation fees. Any contribution above the regular price helps make supported places possible for others – because we may all be in the same sea, but not in the same boat.

The sliding-scale participation fee is available until March 31, 2026:

“Supporting” range

€1951 – €2500

Regular

€1950

“Supported” range

€1949 – €1600

From April 1, 2026, a standard participation fee of €2100 will apply.

A payment plan in three installments is available.

If none of the listed fee options feels accessible to you, please contact us at paleohoriartspace@gmail.com.