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.

Who Should Apply:

We welcome applications from choreographers, dancers, and individuals from any discipline whose research and practice relate to the residency’s theme. If you are seeking an interdisciplinary horizontal learning-researching-creating setup, this residency is for you.

What We Offer:

• A nurturing environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and self-reflection for 12-16 participants.
• A diverse community of artists dedicated to exploring the thematic of the residency.
• Opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange and experimentation.
• Accommodation in shared bell tents, harmoniously integrated into the natural landscape, full access to our shared facilities and a spacious open-air studio with a breathtaking view.
• Vegetarian/vegan meals with fresh products. 
• Time and space for the participants to exchange engaging activities including thematic workshops, collaborative projects, book readings, hiking, swimming, gardening, woodworking, and others related to the local community such as traditional dance classes, music concerts, etc.

What You Have To Take Care Of:

• Travel expenses: Participants are responsible for their own travel costs. 
• Participation Fee: €700 to contribute to the residency’s expenses.

More Details Regarding the Residency:

Nestled in the serene beauty of Lefkada Island, this artist-run residency offers a supportive environment for 12-16 participants to delve into the art of dance making.
Kyveli Kouvatsi and Yorgos Sioras Deligiannis will provide gentle facilitation, focusing mostly on practical aspects such as space operation and safety. However, this shared experience of co-living and co-practicing is primarily designed to be self and collectively regulated. 

Day-to-day activities can vary from sharing movement practices to collective book readings and movie nights, as well as engaging in creative initiatives, open talks with or without the local community, public interventions, bread making, or hiking to the waterfalls. 

We will have daily group circles and take care of the space to maintain its functionality. There will be no requested outcome for the residency, instead, our focus will be on simply being and being together.

During the residency, participants will engage in various practices of decision-making within their crafts and research processes, as well as in relation to the co-living experience. These decisions serve as opportunities for personal and collective growth in a set up where everyone is seen, and seen as equal.

Through making choices in movement and life, participants are invited to deepen their understanding of dance-making, expand their creative strategies and ways of collaborating, while engaging in a sharing and self-learning processes.

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.

We would love to meet individuals interested in topics such as:

– Decolonised techniques

– Decentralized dance narratives

– Choreo and micro activisms

– Choreographic strategies for reflection

– Dramaturgical integration of the audience in the reflecting process 

– Re-moving trauma and re-empowerment through the ‘other’

– Posthumanism and eco-dances

For more information about this residency please visit our website > https://paleohori.com/events-posts/dance-creation-as-a-reflective-practice/