Unplugged Dance 2026: Residential Eco-Somatic Dance Program

Landing week

Fieldwork scores

Rewilding Play

The Loss Lab: Embodied Research in a Damaged World

The body as roots for poetry

Embodied Voice Flow

Ecosomatic practices for living and dying

‘Embodying’ week

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UNPLUGGED DANCE

Residential Dance & Somatic Educational Program

April 26 – June 13, 2026 | Lefkada, Greece

A deeply embodied educational experience in dance, somatics and collective practice

Unplugged Dance is a residential program that brings together contemporary dance practices, somatic inquiry, collective learning and embodied research.

It is an immersive space to live, move, reflect and create together.

This program emerges from the desire to approach dance not only as technique, but as a way of understanding ourselves — through the body, through relational practice, and through shared time and space.

Here, movement becomes a tool for awareness, regulation, expression and transformation.

Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance

This year, Unplugged Dance is oriented toward exploring movement as a regenerative, living practice that nourishes our bodies, our artistic work, and the ecosystems we inhabit.

The program invites an approach to dance that understands movement as a means of ecological awareness and approaches the dancing body as a living, multidimensional organism, inherently interconnected with its environment. Practices are held as ways of cultivating relational sensitivity, an embodied attentiveness to the living networks that connect us with one another and with the world around us.

This year’s workshops are shaped around:

– eco-somatic perspectives that engage with the intersections of dance, ecology, and community, drawing inspiration from principles of permaculture and deep ecology.

– site-specific practices in natural environments that invite direct engagement with the textures, rhythms, and dynamics of the landscapes we inhabit. Space is approached not merely as a backdrop, but as a companion in the creative process, where movement can arise in response to land, weather, soundscape, and living ecosystems.

– process-oriented, participatory, and reflective formats. Unplugged Dance prioritizes experience over external validation, treating movement as a learning field in which every gesture is understood as part of an evolving dialogue between body, environment, and artistic practice.

– approaches that expand our understanding of dance as a political, cultural, and ecological practice, capable of cultivating awareness, resilience, and transformation through deeper connection with ourselves, with others, and with the more-than-human world.

Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance offers a common ground for diverse practices and ways of engaging over the course of the program.

Over the course of seven weeks, you will:

• Deepen your embodied awareness and relationship to your body

• Develop practical somatic tools for self-regulation and creative process

• Expand your movement vocabulary and physical confidence

• Engage in reflective and collective dialogue

• Experience dance as a living, relational and investigative practice

• Strengthen your personal artistic or embodied path within a supportive community

Facilitators – Workshops

Kyveli Kouvatsi & Yorgos Sioras Deligiannis – facilitating landing and introductory sessions

Mariela Nestora ◘ Fieldwork scores

Kate Sagovsky ◘ Rewilding Play

Vasiliki Tsagkari ◘ The body as roots for poetry

Reversed Dances [Franziska Gerth and Lily Pasquali] ◘ The Loss Lab: Embodied Research in a Damaged World

Alessio Castellacci ◘ Embodied Voice Flow

Bodycartography [Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad] ◘ Ecosomatic practices for living and dying

Program Structure

The 7 weeks include:

• Opening week for orientation and collective grounding

• Experiential workshops Monday – Friday led by international facilitators

• A continuous group journey with time to deepen relationships and shared practice

• A mid-program phase with additional activities and communal exchanges

• Free weekends for personal or communal time to integrate and recharge for next week – with breakfast offered.

• Daily dance and movement workshops

• Somatic sessions and embodied research

• Time for morning warm up

• Heart circles – Group reflections

• Critical circles – open discussions

• Space for personal exploration and integration

• Collective care of the space

• Final week dedicated to personal research and creative development

Living together is part of the process. The residential format allows depth, continuity and shared learning.

Arrival is on Sunday, April 26, at a specific time that will be announced later. The arrival day includes a welcoming circle and dinner. Departure is on Saturday, June 13, and includes breakfast and collective cleaning. We cannot accept later arrivals or earlier departures, as both the arrival and departure days are integral parts of the program.

Who is it for?

This program is open to adults who feel called to deepen their relationship to movement and embodied practice.

It is for you if you:

• Wish to cultivate a sustainable and conscious body practice

• Are interested in somatics as experiential knowledge

• Want to explore dance beyond performance and aesthetics

• Seek a community-based learning environment

• Are ready to commit to a 7-week immersive process

Previous experience in dance can be supportive but is not mandatory. Commitment and openness are essential.

Participation Fee

The participation fee is €3600 and covers the full 7 week program, including 180 hours of workshops, guided practices and collective activities.

In addition, during the program, daily shared meals are offered and participants are hosted in shared living arrangements, at no additional cost.

If finances are a concern, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We are happy to explore options together.

Guest Participation

This year, alongside the 7-week core group, we are opening a limited number of guest spots during selected weeks.

These short-term participants join the space while the process is already unfolding, experiencing the work in an intensive format and contributing to the collective dynamic of the group. Guest participation is not a shorter version of the program, but a way to enter the environment of the 7-week journey for a defined period of 1 or 2 weeks.

In this case, priority is given to participants with extensive experience (such as colleagues, professionals, etc.) and/or familiar with the Paleohori environment.

The fee for guest participation is on a sliding scale of €590–€750 per week or €1200–€1500 for two weeks.

Guest Weeks:

• May 3 – May 9

• May 10 – May 16

• May 24 – May 30

• May 31 – June 6

If you are interested in joining through the Guest Participation option, please send us a short email introducing yourself and your experience to: unpluggeddance@gmail.com

Registration

To complete your registration for the full program, please fill out this registration form

Once you submit the form, you will receive an email with our bank details to make the full payment within 48 hours. Please send a copy of your payment confirmation at unpluggeddance@gmail.com.

If you don’t see the email, please check your spam folder as well.

If you’d like to connect, we’re always happy to arrange a free call to answer your questions and help you feel confident about your participation.

*This program is open to learners funded through Erasmus+ Adult Education and Youth mobility schemes. Tripudium Collective can act as a receiving organisation for Erasmus+ participants. If you are eligible for Erasmus+ funding through a sending organisation, you may use your grant to participate in the first part of this program.

If you face any problem with registration through our website, as well as for any questions, please contact us at unpluggeddance@gmail.com

We are looking forward to dancing and connecting with you.

Kate Sagovsky

Kate Sagovsky is an international artist specialising in movement, somatics, dance, & live performance. Her work facilitates embodied experiences to help people connect better to themselves, others, & the world. She works across dance, theatre, & live art as a choreographer, movement director, & director; as well as doing extensive work as a researcher, writer, teacher, & workshop facilitator. Her first book 'Laban’s Efforts in Action: An Actor Movement Handbook' was co-written with Vanessa Ewan & published by Bloomsbury (2019). Her current research focus is on: 'Rewilding Play: Somatic Improvisation, Performance, & Eco-consciousness'. She has been awarded funding from Culture Moves Europe/Goethe Institut to develop 'Sensory Rewilding Encounters' as a form of immersive outdoors installation; from Create Berwick for a cross art-form exhibition & participatory workshop on the theme 'Wild Hope'; & from Arts Council England for development of the Eco-somatic practice ‘Rewilding Play’. As Artistic Director of MOVING DUST, Sagovsky creates artworks that are hybrid in form, blurring the boundaries between dance, theatre, installation, & live art. Past work has been performed to critical acclaim across the UK, & been described as: “raw, uncompromising & very beautiful… leaving vapour trails of brilliance in its wake” (The List); “deeply moving…provocative & stimulating” (Scotsman). Sagovsky has also worked as a movement specialist in many contexts, including at Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company, & the National Theatre. She has taught Actor Movement at conservatoires both nationally & internationally, including LAMDA, RCSSD, RCS, Oxford School of Drama, Rose Bruford, UniArts (Finland), AFDA Film School (South Africa).   As Director & Co-Founder of STUDIO SOMA, Sagovsky regularly teaches Feldenkrais classes, Somatic Performer trainings, & specialist workshops for the studio, as well as developing their ongoing programme. Having completed a four-year professional training, she is a qualified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method, & a member of the Feldenkrais Guild UK. Full bio

Mariela Nestora

Mariela Nestora works within the field of dance and performance as choreographer, researcher, co-curator and mentor and is based in Athens, Greece. She, graduated from the Master's program on artistic research at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Holland (Master Theatre Practices) in 2019 and has also studied the Feldenkrais method (Greece 1 Training with director Ruty Bar, IFF International Feldenkrais Federation), Contemporary dance and Choreography (London Contemporary Dance School, UK), Biology (B.Sc., Queen Mary and Westfield, U.K.) and Human Molecular Genetics (M.Sc. St.Mary’s Medical School, Imperial College, U.K.). She creates performances for the stage, as well as site specific and public space projects, both as a choreographer for YELP danceco. and independent dance maker. Mariela's work has been supported by organisations and institutions such as the Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Cultural Center, Kalamata International Festival a.o. Her artistic research is mobilized by the urgent review of the relationship between humans and the environment. Situated within Post Humanism she investigates choreography as a gathering speculating on different modes of coexistence. Since 2020 she is developing a methodology for what she coined as "molecular choreography". Her interest in gatherings and collaborations since 2011 led her to instigate the Collective Choreography Project CCP, the artist led initiative for the Greek dance scene from stage to page (an artist led platform including publications for the Greek dance scene) as well as becoming a member of several collectives (Green Park, Kolektiva Omonoia, Embros Theatre, Syndesmos Chorou) and other collective projects and publications. Full bio

Vasiliki Tsagkari

Vasiliki Tsagkari studied education at the Early childhood Education Department of University of Athens and Dance in City of Bristol College in the U.K. She has studied improvisation techniques, release and releasing techniques (Skinner releasing technique, Mary Fulkerson's Imagery Release), Alexander technique, Body Mind Centering, martial arts (Aikido and Tai-Chi) and physical theatre (Odin Theatre). Since 2004 she has been creating performance work and collaborating with dancers, choreographers, musicians and visual artists, creating performances and performing in Greece, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. From 2008 to 2010 she was an artist in residence and a member of the artists' collective ARM based in artspace Rondeel in Maastricht (NL). Vasiliki has taught improvisation and contemporary dance workshops and classes for children and adults in U.K., The Netherlands and Greece. She is a mother of a twelve year old boy and the last eight years she has been looking after an olive farm in Messinia, Greece. Physical work close to the earth as well as the observation of nature's elements through the process of cultivating, opened up a wide research field and has informed a lot her approach to dance. In 2022 she created the solo ritualistic performance “The passage”. It was a project related to climate change and environmental crisis and later on, in 2023, it became a performance pilgrimage, along the line of the Hellenic Trench, a sea biome that is currently under threat of drilling for oil in the sea. For “The Passage” pilgrimage she collaborated with several local activist organisations as well as photographers and videographers. Since 2022 she has been working on her own dance pedagogy, MELT, giving workshops about dance with nature, combining several different influences, approaches on somatics and physical experiences like physically working with the earth and allowing for more than human life to have agency in the process of embodied learning. Her main interests are sensitivity and sensuality in movement, the kinaesthetics of language, as well as the transformation of elements of everyday living into physical poetry. The experience of the body moving that asks to be shared, to be articulated as a public statement. She is a certified teacher of SkinnerReleasing Technique (introductory) since 2017. Full bio

Franziska Gerth & Lily Pasquali

Lily Pasquali Born in 1993 in Genoa, Italy, Lily is a queer, non-binary artist moving between dance, anthropology, cooking and ecological practice. Their background in environmental studies led to a deep dive into the politics of waste, capitalistic logic in supply chains and systems of care. Dance emerged in their life as a practice of healing and poetic resistance. They have trained in Butoh, contact improvisation, and somatic work across Europe since 2016. Lily also co-founded in 2020 an experimental community farm Larret en Mouvements dedicated to improvisation practices, food sovereignty, and radical pedagogy and promoting cultural events in deep rural region. In 2022, they co-founded Reversed Dances with Franziska to explore eco-political and intimate questions through movement. ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ ◘ Franziska Gerth Born in 1991 in Altenburg in the former GDR, Franziska’s practice is rooted in the social transitions of post-reunification Germany. Her studies in Latin American political theory and embodied research shaped her decolonial, body-centered approach. Her artistic journey with Butoh and somatic movement began in Colombia in 2014. She has since performed, taught, and collaborated across Europe and Latin America, including long-standing work with Minako Seki and performances with Tadashi Endo and others. Franziska co-founded maizbrasil and works with treemedia e.V. at the intersection of art and political education. Her focus lies in the body as a site of resistance, relationality, and transformation. In 2022, they co-founded Reversed Dances with Lily. Full bio

Alessio Castellacci

Alessio Castellacci is a voice embodiment teacher, contemporary dancer, and sound artist based between Berlin and Rome. Since 2007 he has worked internationally across performance, pedagogy, and sound design, developing an interdisciplinary approach to voice and movement. His teaching focuses on the relationship between voice, body, and perception — exploring how sound emerges from the living, sensing body. Through his method Embodied Voice Flow, Alessio invites participants into a deep listening practice, where vocal expression becomes a form of movement, relational awareness, and self-regulation. He has taught workshops and seminars for over 15 years at art universities, festivals, and independent venues throughout Europe. His practice integrates elements from somatic disciplines (Body-Mind Centering, Release Technique, Experiential Anatomy), voice research (Estill Voice Training), and systemic psychotherapeutic approaches such as Internal Family Systems. Together with Slovenian artist Irena Z. Tomažin, he co-runs The World is Sound, a Berlin-based platform dedicated to experimental and embodied voice practices. Full bio

Olive Bieringa

Olive Bieringa works at the intersection of creative practice and pedagogy in dance, performance, somatics and media. Born in Aotearoa, she is a first generation New Zealander of European Jewish descent based in Oslo. She holds a BA in Dance from European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands and an MFA in Performance and New Media at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. She is a doctoral candidate at Uniarts, Helsinki. She is Certified Movement Therapist (ISMETA), Infant Developmental Movement Educator® and Body-Mind Centering® Teacher and Program Director of Somatic Education Australasia. She is also a Certified Shiatsu practitioner and DanceAbility® teacher, working with performers of all abilities. She has extensive experience working with groups with/without disabilities, youth, and scientists. Her work has been profoundly influenced by teachers and collaborators including Otto Ramstad, Lisa Nelson, Margit Galanter, Steve Paxton, Eva Karczag, and founder of Body-Mind Centering® Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Olive teaches in dance programs and festivals such as Cullberg Ballet, Stockholm, Carte Blanche, Bergen, TanzFabrik, Berlin, Norwegian Theater Academy, Fredrikstad, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Impulstanz, Vienna, Movement Research, NYC, Independent Dance, London and for Body-Mind Centering® certification trainings internationally. Since 2018 she on the board of PRAXIS Oslo where she curates and produces local dance programming. Past curatorial projects include art, and science collaborations such as St Paul’s City Art Collaboratory and SEEDS Festival, improvisational performance events and festivals, and dance film festivals. Her writings appear in numerous publications including the first two books about site dance internationally: Site Dance, the Lure of Alternative Spaces and Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance published by Routledge. Full bio

Otto Ramstad

Otto Ramstad (USA), is a dance artist who makes performances, video works and installations for theaters, galleries, museums and different site and context specific encounters. He has an MA in Choreography from KHiO, Oslo, a BA in Dance, Improvisation, and the Moving Image, from Goddard College, Vermont and is a Certified Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®. He has worked intensively for over twenty years with three primary dance/somatic artists: He assistant teaches for Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering®. Researching and teaching Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores. With Steve Paxton’s contact improvisation and Material for the Spine, which he taught in the exhibitions Steve Paxton: Swimming in Gravity, Brussels and Steve Paxton / Drafting Interior Techniques, Lisbon. He also has taught, amongst many other places, at organizations: Praxis Oslo, Independent Dance, TanzFabrik and ImPulsTanz, companies: Cullberg Ballet and Carte Blanche, universities: KHiO, Oslo; SKH, Stockholm and Yokohama University. His commissions include Lyon Opera Ballet, Walker Art Center and Performance Space New York. He has been featured as a dancer in the work of DD Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Shelton Mann, Karen Nelson, Lisa Schmitt, Scott Wells, Kitt Johnson and Mia Habib. Full bio

Yorgos Sioras Deligiannis

Graduate of National School of Dance (2014), dancer, choreographer and curator in the field of dance research and education. He curated Platform for the performing arts Meta (2015-2019), meetings for artistic research and creation (2018-2019) and co-curated festival Lycabettus (2020-2021). For the past seven years collective initiatives have been a main source of interest, reflection and a place to be. His personal artistic research raises questions regarding identity and creates practices that provoke the relation between the public and the private space. Since 2018 he has showcased two series of works, The Selfy Series and Regulatory Bodies, both partly founded by the Greek Ministry of Arts. Since 2009 he has been a yoga instructor and currently he has been giving classes mainly outdoors throughout the year. Full bio

Kyveli Kouvatsi

Kyveli Kouvatsi lives and works in Lefkada, where her practice continues to shift, learn, and take shape through daily life—between facilitating workshops and collective processes, co-shaping dance education and somatic movement programs, administrative and organizational work, cooking, and an ongoing wish to spend more time farming and touching the earth. Her practice centers on cultivating contexts through dance, inviting people to flourish through embodied experience. Since 2022, together with Yorgos Sioras Deligiannis, she has been developing Paleohori, an eco-art space in her home place of Neohori, Lefkada, dedicated to practices grounded in nature, community, and movement. Her practice is rooted in somatic movement and dance improvisation through the prism of experiential anatomy, influenced by practices of ecology, permaculture, and somatics. She understands embodied awareness as a slow, deep, and political process, unfolding through listening, sensing, and staying with what is present in the body, cultivating listening within and between bodies, as a practice that extends toward the world. The workshops she holds are approached as a watery, living bubble: a flexible and receptive space that adapts to those who enter it, inviting each person to shape and nurture their own practice rather than receive knowledge to wear. Through practices of attention, touch, improvisation, and reflective movement, participants are encouraged to trust the body’s innate capacity to move, shift, fall, recover, regulate, and express. Within this framework, there are no right answers or mistakes—only exploration through honest self-observation, active listening, and respectful relation with others and the environment. The work opens toward presence, fluidity, and embodiment, moving through play, renewal, and the simple joy of being. She is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance (2021) and is currently completing her studies at the School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Full bio

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Few frequently asked questions…

Participation & Requirements

Do I need to have previous dancing experience to join Unplugged Dance?

There is no need of previous experience in any dance technique. Though, this year’s program is seeking individuals who are ready to commit to a deeper learning and research process. It is open to both professionals and non-professionals with an interest in dance, movement, and somatic practices.

What age groups is the program aimed at?

Unplugged Dance is an all levels program for adults of any age. As long as one wants to be part of a co-moving practice and community is more than welcome to participate in our workshops.

Are the classes therapeutic?

The workshops are clearly artistic and part of non-formal adult education. They are not therapy sessions and are not intended to directly address trauma. Their focus is on artistic expression, dance improvisation, conscious movement, self-observation, and creative exploration. However, engaging in these practices—especially within a supportive environment—may naturally bring up emotions, thoughts, or personal insights.
Facilitators are present to guide the workshops and hold a respectful and attentive space within their scope. They are informed of any relevant medical information you have shared, but they do not provide medical or psychological treatment. Participants are encouraged to take responsibility for their own wellbeing, honor their limits, and communicate any needs or concerns.

Practical & Logistics

What time should I plan to arrive and depart?

Arrival is at 15:00 PM, which allows everyone to arrive with ease and settle gently into the space.
We usually organize a bus or taxi transfer for those who are interested, with a small additional cost (paid directly to the driver). The transfer departs from Lefkada approximately 45 minutes earlier than the meeting time.

Arrival Day Schedule:
Meet at the village at 15:00 PM, and from there we will walk together to Paleohori.

17:00 / 18:30 – Dinner

18:00 / 19:30 – Welcoming circle

On the final day, departure is by 12:00 PM. We begin the morning by waking up, doing some collective cleaning and tidying of the space so we can leave it fresh and clean for the next people, just as we found it, sharing breakfast together, and then saying our goodbyes.

Is there electricity, Wi-Fi, and phone coverage at the venue?

Paleohori is an unplugged, off-grid venue powered by solar energy, which covers our essential electricity needs.
Electricity is available for approximately two hours per day to charge essential devices such as phones, laptops, flashlights, and power banks. Please note that the system cannot support high-consumption appliances, such as hair dryers.
Mobile signal is available throughout the area. Wi-Fi is available during the day in a designated shared space and is suitable for light use, such as emails, messaging, and browsing, rather than heavy streaming or large uploads.

What should I bring with me (clothing, bedding, workshop materials)?

Please bring comfortable, versatile clothing suitable for movement and practice. We recommend dressing in layers.

Some essentials we suggest are:
Backpack
Sleeping bag
Shoes suitable for natural/uneven ground
Comfortable layered clothing
Raincoat
Flashlight

You will receive a detailed INFO PACK with further practical information to help you prepare.
There are no specific materials required for the workshops, except a notebook that you might want to keep notes, tasks etc. Other than that, just come ready to move, explore, and feel at ease.

Are there dietary options other than vegetarian? (e.g., allergies, vegan, gluten-free)

All meals are vegetarian, with vegan, gluten-free, and dairy-free options available if needed. We cook seasonally, using fresh ingredients from local producers and our garden at Paleohori, as we believe that eating locally and in season is a simple and nourishing way to support both the body and the environment.
If you have allergies or specific dietary requirements, please let us know in advance. We will do our best to accommodate your needs, but if your diet is very specific, we recommend bringing any personal essentials with you.
We believe that eating seasonally and locally is a simple and nourishing way to support both the body and the environment.

Is local medical or emergency support available nearby?

Yes. The nearest town with medical services is Nidri, about 20 minutes away by car. The main hospital is in Lefkada town, approximately 40 minutes away, and you can receive care there without medical insurance.
We also keep basic medical emergency supplies at the venue for immediate needs.
If you have any allergies, medical conditions, or specific health needs, please let us know in advance. If you require any personal medication, please make sure to bring it with you and keep it accessible during your stay.

What happens in case of rain?

In case of rain, the workshops will take place in our indoor space — a spacious room with a wooden floor in Neohori village. The program will continue in a protected environment, with some adjustments to the schedule and flow of the day.
Part of our philosophy is to stay in dialogue with the natural elements and adapt with them. Rain may invite us to slow down, rearrange, or experience the activities in a different way, and we embrace this as part of the process. We encourage everyone to come with a spirit of openness and flexibility, trusting that the experience will remain meaningful, engaging, and enjoyable.

Community & Expectations

What is expected of participants in terms of community engagement (shared chores or care of space)?

Everyone staying at Paleohori is invited to take responsibility for their presence, both through practical care and conscious participation in the community.
Paleohori is a self-managed space, without cleaning staff, so everyone contributes to caring for the environment we share. This includes small, collective, and individual actions to keep the space clean, tidy, and well-maintained. These simple daily rituals are part of our shared rhythm, as this place becomes our home for a while.
Community engagement also includes respectful communication, participation in Heart Circles, openness, and consideration toward others. We value mutual support, awareness of our impact, and a willingness to coexist with care and sensitivity.
Caring for the space and for one another is part of our philosophy. Through these small acts, we cultivate shared responsibility, reciprocity, and a deeper connection with the land and the community.

What are heart circles?

Heart Circles are a simple daily ritual and an important part of the shared rhythm at Paleohori. They take place each day (except on free days), creating a consistent moment to pause, notice what is present within, and, if one wishes, share it with the group.
They are not therapy spaces, and there is no pressure to share anything “important” or personal. The invitation is simply to listen, acknowledge and express what feels true in the moment. Through our shared intention to be present, listen without judgment, and respect one another, we collectively cultivate a space that feels safe, supportive, and human.
Heart Circles are part of the core practice of the program, and everyone is invited to take part in this shared moment. They help us connect beyond roles and surface interactions, nurturing trust, emotional awareness, and collective care. In our experience, this simple ritual holds a deeply meaningful and grounding power, supporting both individual and collective presence.

Will I be able to work at the same time I am participating in a program?

Unplugged Dance is an immersive program and invites your full presence. With 6–7 hours of daily practice, along with communal and reflective time, we do not recommend working during the program.
Working regularly alongside the program can make it difficult to fully arrive and engage in the shared experience. Presence and continuity support a deeper connection — both personally and within the group — and dividing attention may affect this collective rhythm.
The intention of the program is to offer a space to unplug, reconnect with nature, return to the body, and cultivate meaningful relationships with oneself and the community.
There are also designated free days for rest and personal time, which participants may use as they wish. We encourage using this time to rest and integrate the experience.
We invite participants to join with the intention and availability to be fully present.

Will I have enough time to visit the beach and places on the island?

Yes. The program includes two free days (weekends), giving participants space to rest, explore, or spend their time as they wish.
During those days, you’ll have the opportunity to visit the beach, explore the island, or simply rest and integrate your experience in a way that feels right for you.

Registration & Fees

Is there an early-bird discount or sliding scale for fees?

There is a sliding-scale participation fee up until a certain time. This year the sliding-scale participation fee for Unplugged Dance is available until February 28, 2026.
We invite you to choose the fee option that best reflects your current financial situation. Paleohori eco-art space is an independent, self-funded, non-profit project sustained entirely through participation fees. Any contribution above the regular price helps make supported places possible for others – because we may all be in the same sea, but not in the same boat.

What is included in the participation fee?

The participation fee covers the full program, including all the workshops (hours may differ in between workshops and duration), guided practices and collective activities like excursions to nearby villages that are part of the workshop processes.
In addition, during the program, daily shared meals are offered and participants are hosted in shared living arrangements, at no additional cost.

Is there a payment plan or installment option?

Payment is normally made in two installments. However, if it is easier for you, we are happy to offer additional installments.
Please note that for three or more installments, an additional fee of €3 per transaction applies to cover the bank transfer costs charged to us.
In all cases, the first installment serves as a deposit to secure your place. The final installment is due one month before your arrival. Any intermediate installments can be arranged, and we will be happy to create a payment plan that feels manageable and convenient for you.

Can I transfer my booking to another person?

Yes, you can transfer your booking to another person. Please inform us in advance and provide their full details so we can update the registration accordingly.
The new participant will need to complete the same application process, including filling out the registration form and, participating in an introductory call with us. This helps ensure that the program remains supportive and aligned for everyone involved.

What happens if the program is cancelled by the organisers?

If the program is cancelled by us, you will receive a full refund of the amount you have paid. Alternatively, if you prefer, you may transfer the full amount to another program within the same season or to a future program.

Is there a scholarship or supported place available?

A number of supported places are available through our sliding scale participation fee, offering further flexibility to help make the program accessible to a wider range of participants.
In addition, this year, we offer seven full scholarships for Greek citizens for the Unplugged Dance program, supported by a fund from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Lastly, limited partial scholarships may be offered in situations of genuine financial need. They are considered with care, on a case-by-case basis, and are intended as a supportive exception rather than a standard option. Eligibility is grounded in economic disadvantage, with particular priority given to individuals who have been directly affected by war, conflict, or displacement.

What is the cancellation policy in your program?

As an independent, non-profit project without regular public funding, we strive to offer the lowest possible price. The project relies on the commitment of all participants, which is why, in case of cancellation on your side, the amount paid is non-refundable, with the only exception being circumstances of force majeure, such as closed borders, a pandemic, war, or natural disasters preventing your travel. If the event is canceled for any reason, the entire amount paid will be refunded without reservations.

How will I get to Neohori?

You can find detailed information on how you can get to Neohori Lefkada here

Please feel free to send us your questions!

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