Movement for people 50+ – Penelope Morout

SCULPTING BODY-IMAGES: 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.

Ages: 50+
Levels: All

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Penelope Morout

A graduate of 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), Penelope Morout is an interdisciplinary dance artist interested in creating hybrid projects through the fusion of various mediums.
As a dancer & performer, she has performed at the Kalamata International Dance Festival, at Athens and Epidaurus Festival, at Teatro de la Danza Guillermina Bravo CDMX 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 exhibitions and various video dance & dance animation festivals around the world (Italy, 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, Murate Art District Florence). Within 2023, she has created original group pieces in collaboration with Area Espai de Dansa i Creació Barcelona, MUDA Dance Center Ghent and 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 Co, and, ever since, is actively creating her own work. Both her previous performance THE BOX || That Dead Space Between Us, as well as her new one EMOTIONAL DOGS have been funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. For the latter, she has gained additional support from X-Church (Gainsborough, UK), El Sortidor (Barcelona, ES) and the Murate Art District (Florence, ΙΤ).