The lifelong learning group Kinitiras Ω, is opening its doors on Tuesday 16/12/25, 10.30-13.30 inviting people of all ages who want to experience Kinitiras’ energy and learn about Penelope’s Morout practices.

Sculpting Body-Images: The Age-Free Body is a workshop designed for any adult who wishes to explore movement and play as tools for enhancing both their physical and cognitive abilities, and, by extension, to develop preventive and restorative strategies that promote sustainable and healthy aging.

According to contemporary scientific research, it has been proven that approximately 400 repetitions are needed to form a new synapse in the brain. However, when this process occurs through play, the number of repetitions decreases dramatically, requiring only 10 to 20 repetitions.

In the Sculpting Body-Images: The Age-Free Body workshop, the space is approached as a playground based on movement: participants—regardless of age or previous experience—are guided in the use of individual and collective movement tools, through constraints relating to space, time, and movement, while also engaging in play situations inspired by the Fighting Monkey Practice (a practice founded by Linda Kapetanio and Jozef Frucek).

The main goal is to create a safe, familiar learning space, where participants are encouraged to support each other, simultaneously stimulating their nervous system and expanding their skills in rhythm, coordination, and body elasticity.

Above all, however, the seminar aims to foster a community of mutual support, free from judgment, in which members are encouraged to express their movement identity freely and collaborate, with the goal of reconnecting with the “child” within them and reigniting their overall zest for life.

LIMITED PLACES!

Where: Kinitiras Lab
When: Tuesday 16/12/25,10.30-13.30
Cost: drop in 25€/ 15€ for unemployed, students, 65+, Kinitiras’ active members
Reserve your place at info@kinitiras.com or at +30 69 40 576461 every Tuesday and Friday 11.00-13.00 and Thursday 18.00-20.00.

Penelope Morout (GR-FR), 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.
Penelope works professionally between Greece and abroad as a performer, choreographer and scenographer. She approaches choreography through a cinematographic gaze and brings performers and sets in constant dialogue. Through her company CROSS IMPACT, she has received financial support from the Greek Ministry of Culture and the J.F.Costopoulos Foundation, in order to create and tour her works (THE BOX: That Dead Space Between Us, EMOTIONAL DOGS). Her first commissioned work in Canada, COME HELL OR HIGH WATER, premiered in Edmonton in May 2025 and will be presented at Fluit Festival in Calgary in October 2025.
As an educator, she shares her movement practice “Sculpting Body-Images” around the world (Kalakeli Movement Arts India, PERA GAU School of Performing Arts, REVES Festival Costa Rica, Kinissis Dance Festival Chile, Points to Play Mulhouse, Akropoditi Dance Festival Syros, Unplugged Dance Lefkada, MUDA Dance Center Ghent, Nunart Guinardó Barcelona, Škola suvremenog plesa Ane Maletić Zagreb). Her practice is based on combining physical exploration with playfulness and curiosity: it invites all participants to embrace their individuality and weave their unique artistic voice. 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.