THE BOX || that dead space between us

THE BOX || that dead space between us

of Penelope Morout

Dance Performance

Plyfa
Korytsas 39, Votanikos 

2-2-4.12.2022 | 21:00  

THE BOX stands. It opens. It transforms. 

THE BOX reveals the body, it devours it. 

It sets boundaries, only for the body to surpass them. 

Inside THE BOX, time dilates, space fluctuates.

Inside THE BOX, encounters emerge. 

Re-defining physical interaction under a state of suspension. 

ENTER. 

THE BOX || that dead space between us lures us into an underground journey between the real and the virtual, between the light and the shadow, between our deepest desires and our utmost fears. Oscillating between remembrance and oblivion, this performance is a pursuit of self-identification, a retrieval sense of purpose, of time, of human nature through tactile communication.

Concept & Direction: Penelope Morout
Movement Research & Performance: Penelope Morout, Ioulia Zacharaki
Dramaturgy: Penelope Morout
Music & Sound Design: Chris Parapagidis
Set Design: Penelope Morout
Costumes & Special Set Composition: Ilianna Skoulaki 
Light Design: Tasos Palaioroutas
Set Construction: ROKANI 
Organisation & Assistance: Nikolas Chatzivasileiadis
Photography: Albert Vidal | Vèrtex Comunicació
Video Documentation: Albert Vidal | Vèrtex Comunicació
Video Trailer: Penelope Morout
Press: Ioanna Iakovidi

Production: Cross iMPact | Penelope Morout

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/765988627

Persons under 16 years old are not allowed to attend

THE BOX || that dead space between us was created with the financial support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports for 2021-2022.

In 2021, Penelope Morout founded the Cross iMPact Company, an organization which emerged from the deep belief that artistic innovation can be found in the meeting points between diverse art forms and techniques and that art is capable of producing a fundamental impact, in both the individual and the community.

BIO

A graduate of the National School of Dance (Athens) and the National Technical University of Athens – School of Architecture (Athens), with a MasterΆs degree in Theatre Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts (The Netherlands), Penelope Morout is an interdisciplinary dance artist interested in creating hybrid projects through the fusion of various mediums. As a dancer & performer, she has collaborated professionally with JUKSTA Company, director Kostas Filippoglou (Athens and Epidaurus Festival), So7 Company and since 2018 she has been working with theatre companies as a director/choreographer/scenographer. Within the years, she has evolved “Sculpting Body-Images” workshop, a dance improvisation technique which she shares around the world (MUDA Arts Centre/Belgium, Murate Art District/Italy, KDF/Greece, Munus Encuentro/Mexico). As a filmmaker, she has collaborated with TANZAHOi International Screendance Festival Hamburg and has participated in international exhibitions and video dance & dance animation festivals around the world (Italy, Brazil, France, Greece, Indonesia).

For her previous work H.I.I.T. | High-Intensity Identity Training, Penelope used herself as a case-study experiment for a year and her latest performance THE BOX || that dead space between us has received funding from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports for 2021-2022. She continues to seek for her personal development by participating systematically in workshops around Europe, including a series of Fighting Monkey | RootlessRoot workshops.

BIO Ioulia Zacharaki

Ioulia Zacharaki is a National School of Dance (Athens) graduate.

Since then, she has been collaborating with Anton Lachky in Brussels and Danae & Dionysios in Greece. For the production THE BOX|| that dead space between us by Cross iMPact Company | Penelope Morout, she collaborated with Penelope on the movement research, choreography and performance of the work. THE BOX premiered at the 28^th Kalamata International Dance Festival 2022.

In regards to her personal creations, in October she will present the site- specific project BRIDGE, which has been funded from the «Open Sails» of the Municipality of Chania for the year 2022. To this day, she has created the site- specific work Definitely Maybe for the Dance Days Chania International Festival (2017), performed Wethericecream Weatheriscream at the Kalamata International Dance Festival (2019) and site-specific work Into the Flux: Jungle for the Dance Days Chania International Festival (2020) .

She is one of Syn-Kinisi's Association of Expressive Dance collaborators in Chania (GR), in terms of teaching and participating  in the companyΆs productions, as well as volunteering to the Dance Days Chania International Festival.