Training with Penelope Morout

December 11 to 21, Monday to Thursday, 9.30 to 11 h

Attention! The activity starts punctually at 9:30 a.m., and at 9:35 a.m. we close the front door. In nunArt there is no bell, it is possible that if you arrive late you will not be able to enter.

☕And starting this September, at 11 a.m., space for coffees and infusions, come network! 🕸️

Jumpsuit coffee with Penelope: December 20, Wednesday from 11 to 12 h

advanced/professional

With ticket or single class:

Single class: € 8

Ticket for 10 classes: € 70

Sculpting Body-Images is a physical movement workshop of high intensity, shaped to challenge the known bodily patterns of each practitioner and to bring awareness to the conscious act of seeing and perceiving the body in relation to interchangeable elements. Whether in real life or on stage, whether through the bare eye or through the lens of the camera, our body is a dynamic instrument in constant transformation. However, in order to sculpt the form, we need to play and provoke its limits.

Through the use of spatial, temporal and physical constraints, as well as game-like situations inspired by Fighting Monkey Practice (founded by Linda Kapetanea & Jozef Frucek) we will engage into constant movement and test our bodily structure, while pushing our corporeal limits, building up stamina and gaining agility, speed and resilience in physically demanding situations.

Sculpting Body-Images is about approaching the body from a 360° view and consciously choosing the perspective we want to present, based upon what we want to communicate with the world. How can we identify our creative skills and combine them in order to establish our own creative methodology? Sculpting Body-Images invites the participant, while keeping the body in the center of attention, to integrate various interdisciplinary tools in order to find their unique artistic voice and make the communication between artist-artwork-audience clearer and more specific.

Penelope Morout

A graduate of the National School of Dance (Athens) and the National Technical University of Athens – School of Architecture (Athens), with a Master’s degree in Theatre Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts (The Netherlands), Penelope Morout is an interdisciplinary dance artist interested in creating hybrid projects through the fusion of various mediums. Her work expands from performance and dance theatre creations to mixed-media video animation and set design. As a dancer & performer, she has collaborated professionally with JUKSTA Company, director Kostas Filippoglou (Athens and Epidaurus Festival), So7 Company and since 2018 she has been working with theatre companies as a director/choreographer/scenographer. As a filmmaker, she has collaborated with TANZAHOi International Screendance Festival Hamburg and has participated in international exhibitions HUMAN RIGHTS? | THE FUTURE'S SHAPE #WomenCanSaveTheWorld and REA!Art Fair (IT), as well as in various video dance & dance animation festivals around the world (Brazil, France, Greece, Indonesia). Within the years, she has evolved “Sculpting Body-Images” workshop, which she shares around the world (PERA GAU School of Performing Arts Cyprus, Munus Encuentro Mexico, Nunart Guinardó Barcelona, The School of Disobedience Budapest, Attivisti della Danza & Collettiv O.Scena Florence). Within 2023, she has created original pieces in collaboration with professional and artistic schools in Europe (Area Espai de Dansa i Creació Barcelona, MUDA Dance Center Ghent, Škola suvremenog plesa Ane Maletić Zagreb). She consistently trains and gets inspired by “Fighting Monkey Practice”(founded by Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek), which she has been teaching since 2021 at the Kalamata International Dance Festival in Greece for participants over 50 years old. In 2021, Penelope Morout founded Cross iMPact Company, and received funding from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports for her performance THE BOX || that dead space between us, which premiered at the 28th Kalamata International Dance Festival 2022, together with her short solo piece, NADEZHDA (world premiere within the context of Munus Encuentro at Teatro de la Danza Guillermina Bravo CDMX). She recently gained financial support for her new creation EMOTIONAL DOGS from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports for 2023-2024, the Murate Art District (Florence, ΙΤ) and X-Church (Gainsborough, UK).