Movement for people 50+ – Penelope Morout

THE AGE-FREE BODY
Movement workshop for people 50+

Sculpting Body-Images: The Age-Free Body is a workshop shaped for any adult participant interested in movement & play as a way to improve physical and cognitive abilities, while acquiring defense and repair strategies towards a healthy aging.
Based on scientific research, it has been discovered that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain, unless it is done in play, in which case it only takes 10 to 20 repetitions.
In Sculpting Body-Images: The Age-Free Body practice, the space is approached as a movement playground and the participants -regardless of age and previous experience- are introduced in the concept of multi-age play-based learning as a means of reconfiguring the physiological process of aging. 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 test our bodily structure, gain resilience and agility, while connecting with the child within. The main objective of The Age-Free Body workshop is to create a safe learning space, where the participants are guided to motivate each other, while stimulating their nervous system, developing their motor skills and improving their coordination, rhythm and elastic footwork skills.
Far and foremost, it is to build a caring, judgment-free community, where all members are encouraged to express and embrace their individuality as a valuable asset in a mixed-age, movement-based setting.

OPEN PRESENTATION
We invite you to the open presentation of the workshop “THE AGE-FREE BODY” by Penelope Morout on Friday 18/07 at 19:30 at “Horizon” Costas Varotsos sculpture at the port.
(Free entrance)

Ages: 50+
Levels: All

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Penelope Morout

Founder of CROSS IMPACT Company, is an interdisciplinary dance artist, intrigued by creating hybrid projects through the fusion of various performing and visual art mediums. Graduated from the National School of Dance (Athens) and the National Technical University of Athens – School of Architecture, with a Master’s degree in Theatre Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL), her artistic identity lies on a durational creative process, during which academic and artistic research are intrinsically connected with her movement practice. Her latest performance EMOTIONAL DOGS was realized under the auspices and the financial support of the Greek Ministry of Culture and, continuing having the support of the latter as well as of THE J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, is scheduled to tour during 2025.
Penelope works constantly between Greece and abroad as a performer, choreographer, dance teacher and scenographer. As a filmmaker she has participated in exhibitions and video dance & dance animation festivals worldwide. As an educator, she has shaped her own movement practice “Sculpting Body-Images”, which she shares around the world (PERA GAU School of Performing Arts, Munus Encuentro Mexico, Nunart Guinardó Barcelona, Points to Play Mulhouse, Akropoditi International Dance and Performing Arts Festival Syros, Unplugged Dance Lefkada, Kalamata International Dance Festival). Penelope implements in her teaching methodology elements inspired by “Fighting Monkey”, a practice by Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek, with whom she has been training for 15 years.