Symbiotic Danscapes Residential Research Workshop in the sloping forest of Paleohori, Lefkada, Greece.

Where: Paleohori art-space, Neohori, Lefkada, Ionian islands, Greece

When: September 22 – October 12, 2025

Deadline for applications: Due to limited spots, participation will be confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis.

A new hybrid program that 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 forth specific questions emerging from their personal practice to be explored collectively.

Together, the group will engage in a process of co-inquiry, exploring scores, inventing rituals, sharing meals, and allowing time to shape their discoveries.

This series of research workshops seeks to reclaim time as a privilege: to unlearn and
rethink the ways we create dance, to acknowledge and highlight our interconnectedness and
to reimagine spectatorship beyond presentation, through dances shaped by encounters.

To remember why dance was important to us in the first place.

Symbiotic Danscapes is a unique artist residency series that examines choreography through three different lenses:

⫸ Dancer as both a feeling and thinking subject

⫸ Choreography as a decentralised practice for reflection and improvisation

⫸ Dramaturgy that considers the audience—not by serving it, but by unlocking its political potential for social commentary

This October, Androniki Marathaki, a Greek dancer and choreographer who adopts “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 interwaved 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.

How to register:
Register through this form: https://paleohori.com/research-workshop/

Costs for participants:
A minimum contribution of 550 euros is required to support the food expenses for the 21 days of your participation.

Contact details:
For any questions please feel free to contact us at info@paleohori.com

For further information, please visit https://paleohori.com/

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