WILD

Dates 

August 28 – September 16, 2026 

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.

Participation Fee

The participation fee covers the full 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.

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.

Registration

To complete your registration, please fill out this registration form, pay the deposit within 24 hours and send a copy of your payment at paleohoriartspace@gmail.com

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! 

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

Erasmus+ Funded 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 are interested, please contact us before applying to discuss arrangements with your sending organisation.

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