Sculpting Body-Images
with Penelope Morout
During this morning class, we will awaken the body through experimentation and game-like movement situations. We will focus on the moving body and work both alone as well as in groups, in order to test our bodily structure, gain resilience and agility, while having fun and reconnecting with the child within.
We will observe, embody and exchange knowledge through physical contact, while stimulating our nervous system, developing our motor skills and improving our coordination, rhythm and elastic footwork skills.
It is a practice that creates a safe, family-like learning space, where the participants are guided to support and motivate each other· freed from prerequisites of age, backgrounds and disciplines, all stories matter: they nourish our interaction with others and our connection with ourselves.
Sculpting Body-Images is a movement workshop of intense physicality, shaped to challenge the known bodily patternsof each practitioner and to bring awareness to the conscious act of seeing and perceiving the body in relation to interchangeable elements. Whether in real life or on stage, whether through the bare eye or through the lens of the camera, our body is a dynamic instrument in constant transformation. However, in order to sculpt the form, we need to play and provoke its limits.
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 engage into constant movement and test our bodily structure.
Within a safe-learning space and based upon each participant’s personal physical abilities, we will focus on stimulating the nervous system, increasing stamina and developing motor skills that improve agility through coordination, rhythm and elastic footwork skills.
Sculpting Body-Images is about approaching the body from a 360° view and consciously choosing the perspective we want to present, based upon what we want to communicate with the world.
All stories matter: they nourish our interaction with others and our connection with ourselves.
This physical practice invites the participants to keep the body in the center of attention and explore movement tasks through improvisation, collaboration and integration of various tools.
Penelope Morout (GR) is an interdisciplinary dance artist interested in creating hybrid projects through the fusion of various mediums.





