Paleohori (2025)

08/04/2025

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐃! 🌀 𝚂𝚢𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚜 ✨
sᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 𝟸𝟸 - ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ 𝟷𝟸, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟻

Α unique artistic residency series that invites a dance artist to conduct research for 3 weeks, in dialogue with a dedicated and curious group of participants.

What if…

𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦?

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝?

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞’𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝?

𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠?

This October, 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐤𝐢 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐢, a Greek dancer and choreographer who adopt “practice” as her main choreographing method will share her research with us in a dynamic moment where everything remains fluid and possible.
𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘬𝘪 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 ‘𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴’ 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵.
In her work, the different processes of experiencing (choreographing, performing, observing) are intewaved in order to release compositional as well as defamiliarization processes of movement that are also related in everyday life and do develop capacities in world-making and self-creation.

𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚔𝚒’𝚜 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛
on our website 🔗 link in comments

Limited spots available - participation will be confirmed on a first-come first-served basis.

Feel free to dm for questions 🌀

27/03/2025

2+1 days for the early bird offer - only 2 early bird spots left! ☀️

Rest In Motion: Summer Dance Program 2025 🌿

What does it mean to truly disconnect and experience rest in today’s world?

«Rest in Motion» invites you to slip away into the forest and explore rest through movement, community, and nature. Guided by international facilitators, this immersive journey combines workshops in dance improvisation, experiential anatomy, and creative exploration, providing tools to cultivate awareness and presence within a communal setting.
Share nourishing meals, sleep surrounded by nature, and engage in heart circles to build a community of trust and connection. Surrender to the present moment and rediscover true rest-with yourself and others.

Check the link in our bio for more info or slide into our DM’s! 🌻

14/03/2025

Only 6 days left to apply for the second Dance Creation as a Reflective Practice | residency program in Lefkada island, Greece , so we couldn’t help but feel heartwarming joy when we came across these photos from last September. This amazing team of sensing and moving beings, made Paleohori their home for a month. So many things happened that, had we tried to plan them, they never would have unfolded the same way.

Classes, sharings, parties, tears, heart circles, performances, writings, hugs, more hugs, smiles, birthday surprises, full moon, and so much more.

Most of all, a bonded community was created, and still today, from all over the planet, they are trying to keep in touch, meeting and sharing.

After all, this residency is designed to invite people to just be and be together.

What a gift you are, people! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

12/03/2025

"All I've done is to strive constantly to do less and less in order to eventually not have to do anything […] I've spent close to 50 years farming in a way that keeps me looking out for things I don't have to do rather than to find new things to do […] if I were to carry out a social movement of some sort, this would have to be one that consisted of doing nothing. If everyone were to do nothing, the word would become a place of peace and plenty."

Fukuoka's words stand as a great reminder to value being over doing, and presence over progress. Perhaps the most radical act in movement today is to stop and listen.
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One last month until we can collectively rethink dance as a living, evolving force—rooted in care, resilience, and deep connection. 🌍 One last spot is still open for the "Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance: A Permaculture-inspired Residency" !

Find more info through 🔗 link in bio and/or contact us at [email protected]

10/03/2025

Yesterday we had a lovely day gathering daisies with the guidance of and the great help of .en.roos.vanlife who have made our lives sunnier these past few days staying at with us!

Daises are such a valuable herbal medicine, blooming almost all over Neohori's fields🌼

Nature is always so generous with us, freely sharing her gifts -we just need to be aware, notice and appreciate them 🐛🌿

27/02/2025

ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 - 𝚂𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚜
ᴀᴜɢᴜsᴛ 𝟷𝟷 - sᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 𝟷𝟷 ⋗ 𝟺 ᴄʏᴄʟᴇs

In a world of endless scrolling and constant notifications, we’re bombarded with tips on wellness and renewal. But what does it mean to truly disconnect and experience rest in today’s world? We don't have the answer...

Yet, we invite you to
slip away into the forest and explore rest through movement, community, and nature—finding tranquility in motion and reconnecting with your body beyond the digital noise.

share nourishing meals, sleep surrounded by nature, engage in group activities and heart circles cultivating a community of trust and connection.

surrender to the present moment and explore how movement can guide you to a safe "home" where a regulated, breathing self can be.

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𝚆𝚑𝚘 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛

Anyone who wishes to engage with dance and movement improvisation in a safe environment, within a co-living set up in nature is more than welcome! No matter of age, physicality or dance-practice level.

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𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚜

Guided by international facilitators, this immersive journey combines workshops in dance improvisation, experiential anatomy, and creative exploration, providing tools to cultivate awareness and presence within a communal setting.

⋗ 1st cycle | August 11 – 18, 2025 ⋖

Somatic Art Practice® with Marina Tsartsara

Bloom Inside™ with Kyveli Kouvatsi

⋗ 2nd cycle | August 19 – 26, 2025 ⋖

Incognito Bodies with Fernando Nicolás Pelliccioli & Carlos Osatinsky Espaciopropio.augenblick

Body Landscape Lab with Thalia Ditsa

⋗ 3rd cycle | August 27 – September 3, 2025 ⋖

Melt : poetic practice with Vasiliki Tsagkari

Sculpting Body-Images with Penelope Morout

⋗ 4th cycle | September 4 – 11, 2025 ⋖

The Body The Player The Journey with Rafi Sahyoun

The Listening Skin with Maria Papadopoulou

🌊Curious to learn more?

Find all the workshops, facilitators, and program details, along with information about the space, on our website > https://paleohori.com/events-posts/rest-in-motion-summer-dance-program-lefkada-island-greece/

PS. 1 Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis!

PS. 2 Early bird prices apply if you register before March 29th!

24/02/2025

The paleohori team has been working enthusiastically behind the scenes creating and putting together engaging programs for sensing and moving beings! 🦋🌻🐛🐝

Without further ado, three new projects are in the works and almost ready to be announced very soon. We decided to give you some little hints as we were too excited and couldn’t keep them to ourselves for much longer. 🌱

•Rest In Motion | summer dance workshops | August 11 - September 11

Across four immersive 8 day periods, participants will have the opportunity to reconnect with your unique movement through dance improvisation, experiential anatomy, artistic expression and somatic exploration. 8 workshops led by international facilitators, each bringing their own approach to movement practice, offering tools to uncover new pathways of expression and perception and inviting you to be fully present in your body.

•10-day residential workshops program in collaboration with local producers from Lefkada | September 12 - September 21

Tours, seminars and workshops about natural cosmetics, medicinal herbs, herbal tinctures, handmade soaps, olive farming and beekeeping. And of course morning movement classes, hiking, beach time and an international like-minded community!

•Generative Choreographies | Research Workshop | September 22 - October 12

A new hybrid form of a residential research program in Paleohori, Generative Choreographies invites one guest artist to conduct and share their research with a dedicated group of curious people. Over the course of three weeks, in the sloping forest of Paleohori, the guest artist will bring four specific questions emerging from their personal practice—questions to be explored collectively. Together, the group will engage in a process of co-inquiry, trying scores, inventing rituals, sharing meals, and allowing time to shape their discoveries.

More information is coming soon!

If you have any questions do not hesitate to slide in our DMs - we are here to help!

12/02/2025

Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance: A Permaculture-Inspired Residency 🌿

Can dance be a regenerative, sustainable practice, like an ecosystem that flourishes over time? This permaculture-inspired residency invites movers, thinkers, and artists to explore dance beyond consumption and hierarchy, embracing longevity, adaptability, and interconnection.

Over three weeks in Paleohori’s unique landscape, we will co-create a dance culture that sustains rather than consumes, challenges norms, and nurtures both individual and collective transformation.

Themes we explore:
🌱Sustainable dance practices: Embracing Otherness, Honouring Commonalities
🌊Dance as a medium for self-growth beyond stereotypes, comparison, and external validation
🔥Contemporary dance as an active political and cultural force for change

Join us in rethinking dance as a living, evolving force—rooted in care, resilience, and deep connection. 🌍

📅 More info & applications: https://forms.gle/Ay3TJxSGpXzJbgPNA

3 more days to apply!

For more please check out our website https://paleohori.com and contact us at [email protected]

06/02/2025

The courageous almond trees at Neohori have blossomed, bringing light to the dull winter landscape and reminding us that spring is not as far away as it seems… Just like the spring residency “Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance: dance, permaculture, and sustainability"!

During this residency we shall take the time and emerge in ideas, tools and practices towards an active, applied and self regulated approach, while exploring questions such as:

– How permaculture can inspire dance practices that transform ourselves and the world around us?

– How to live-dance in a sustainable way, while imagining the collective body as an ecosystem that affects and is being affected by other bodies?

– What can a permanent culture of dance be?

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Only a few days left to submit your application!
Deadline is February 15th!

Find the application link in bio, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions! 🌿🪻🌸

05/02/2025

Moments in nature captured in Paleohori the summer of 2024

1. Ioana, Lena and Danae on a hot summer day, enjoying each other’s company
2. The reflection of the August sun on the mountain
3. Hello, is anyone hiding over there? 🤫
4. Moment of creation from July’s residency🎨
5. Roeli, having a moment of rest on the platform 🌸
6. When life gives you a pink sky you take it and run 🥰
7. Purposeful set up for Idil’s musical endeavors in the forest
8. Forest heritage 🌱
9. Maider moving according to Vasiliki’s guidance 🌸
10. Gerda’s creation in Marina’s class. You have to be able to look inside🌻
11. Another walk from paleohori, while the sun was falling ☀️

🦋🐝

21/01/2025

Last year we applied for the first time heart circles during our first residencies, and the effect of their presence was so profound that we just can’t go back anymore. ✨

Paleohori is not just a hosting space. It’s a field of exploration of togetherness, of meltingness through the other, in order for one to enhance profound transformations. Every year we get to understand a bit more about the unpredictable nature of human dynamics and feel no more than humble as hosts to all that unfolds. Heart circles helped us to see the other beyond the rational, the image, and its projections, by engaging in deep active listening and articulating emotions.

We saw people growing from individuals to communities with collective emotional intelligence that we rarely encounter. We see people traveling from country to country to reunite after the courses end or engaging in new adventures together.☀️

We know that heart circles can engineer higher emotional availability in order to process intense emotions collectively and individually. They hold a space for anyone ready enough to evolve through a highway of collective care or for the shy hearts that absorb like sponges, all contributing to a collective emotional regulation, release, and growth.

From now on, we’ll be implementing heart circles in other programs, including Unplugged, because beyond better regulation, we need rituals that ground us to our human nature. 🫂

O dusty mountains,
rugged mountains
Were you laughing at us,
watching us walking with strain?
When we’ve all been rejoicing
while seeing your veins.

O rusty mountains,
clumsy mountains,
What were you thinking
during our distant complaints?
All crying in a circle after we
shared our common pains.

20/01/2025

Dance Creation as a Reflective Practice 🍃✨

Are you a dance artist, and want to explore the creative process of dance as a reflective practice?
Paleohori invites you to apply for an immersive residency in Lefkada island. 🌊☀️

A co-living and practising set up within a diverse global community for 5 summer weeks, where participants will get the opportunity to explore their preference of practices, movement and dancing while focusing on simply being and being together with the rest of the group.

If you are interested in decolonised techniques, decentralised dance narratives, choreography and micro activisms, choreographic strategies for reflection, dramaturgical integration of the audience in the reflecting process and more, then this will be the nest for you to deeply explore, evolve and connect with similar thinking individuals and creators.

Dates: July 6th - August 10th, 2025
Location: Neohori, Lefkada, Ionian islands, Greece
Venue: Paleohori art-space
Duration: Five weeks
Application deadline: March 20th, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 27th, 2025

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. 🦎

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