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 Estefania Dondi & Penelope Morout

• Co-living program

shared accommodation & daily meals

collective dialogue & co-regulation circles

• For dancers & movement practitioners

no previous professional experience required

• Limited number of participants

About

WILD is a 20day late summer intensive dance training and co-living program taking place at Paleohori eco-art project, 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 Estefania Dondi, will share tools, practices and their overall approach to self mastery by unlocking their own unique experience. 

Estefania brings her movement practice Awakening of the Senses inviting participants into an immersive process where technique, improvisation, and the natural environment continuously inform one another. Through guided movement research, improvisational scores, and embodied exploration, participants investigate body qualities, spatial awareness, rhythm, and compositional tools while cultivating a sustainable technical foundation rooted in listening, adaptability, and presence. The work encourages each participant to strengthen their artistic agency, expand their physical vocabulary, and develop a personal movement language through curiosity, creativity, and embodied experience.

→ Explore more about Estefania’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 

✔ Full 20 day program, including 84 hours of workshops, guided practices and collective activities.

✔ Three daily shared meals are offered and participants are hosted in shared living arrangements, at no additional cost.

A payment plan in two or more installments is available.

Few supported spots available – talk to us! 

Registration

To complete your registration, please fill in the registration form and submit the 50% deposit within 48 hours after receiving confirmation of your spot.

As places are limited, your participation is confirmed upon receipt of the deposit payment.

For any questions, feel free to get in touch with us 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!