Dance Creation as a Reflective Practice · artistic residency program

This residency offers an interdisciplinary, horizontal learning-researching-creating setup, allowing you to explore the creative process of dance as a reflective practice.

Overview:

Dates: July 6th – August 10th, 2025 (new dates for 2026 will be announced soon)

Location: Neohori, Lefkada, Ionian islands, Greece

Duration: Five weeks

Application Deadline: Applications will be reviewed as soon as they are received, and participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis until all remaining spots are filled.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/L3PcL2M15iawpLDe7 

Who Should Apply:

We welcome applications from choreographers, dancers, and individuals from any discipline whose research and practice relate to the residency’s theme. 

What to expect:

⫸ A nurturing environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and self-reflection for 12-16 participants.

⫸ A diverse community of individuals dedicated to exploring the thematic of the residency.

⫸ Opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange and experimentation.

⫸ A spacious open-air studio with a breathtaking view.

⫸ Vegetarian/vegan meals with fresh local products and shared accommodation. 

⫸ Time and space for the participants to exchange engaging activities including thematic workshops, collaborative projects, book readings, hiking, swimming, gardening, woodworking, and others related to the local community such as traditional dance classes, music concerts, etc.

More Details Regarding the Residency:

Nestled in the serene beauty of Lefkada Island, this artist-run residency offers a supportive environment for 10-14 participants to delve into the art of dance making.
Kyveli Kouvatsi and Yorgos Sioras Deligiannis will provide gentle facilitation, focusing mostly on practical aspects such as space operation and safety. However, this shared experience of co-living and co-practicing is primarily designed to be self and collectively regulated. 

Day-to-day activities can vary from sharing movement practices to collective book readings and movie nights, as well as engaging in creative initiatives, open talks with or without the local community, public interventions, bread making, or hiking to the waterfalls. 

We will have daily group circles and take care of the space to maintain its functionality. There will be no requested outcome for the residency, instead, our focus will be on simply being and being together.

During the residency, participants will engage in various practices of decision-making within their crafts and research processes, as well as in relation to the co-living experience. These decisions serve as opportunities for personal and collective growth in a set up where everyone is seen, and seen as equal.

Through making choices in movement and life, participants are invited to deepen their understanding of dance-making, expand their creative strategies and ways of collaborating, while engaging in a sharing and self-learning processes.

Regarding the collaborative nature of this residency, we hope it will go beyond its role as a platform for cultural exchange and become a community-building experience that addresses social issues, challenges norms, and inspires positive change.

We would love to meet individuals interested in topics such as:

⫸ Decolonised techniques

⫸ Decentralized dance narratives

⫸ Choreo and micro activisms

⫸ Choreographic strategies for reflection

⫸ Dramaturgical integration of the audience in the reflecting process 

⫸ Re-moving trauma and re-empowerment through the ‘other’

⫸ Posthumanism and eco-dances

Contribution:

⫸ As Paleohori is an artist-run independent space, a minimum contribution of 700 euros is required to support part of the costs for your 35-day participation.

Please note :  

• Participants are responsible for their own travel costs. 

• You’ll need a video link of you (max 5′) describing the reasons you want to be part of this residency and your relation to the residency’s thematic. 

How to apply: 

Please complete this Google Form.

Contact Us:

For inquiries or assistance, please email us at paleohoriartspace@gmail.com