Paleohori

21/01/2025

Last year we applied for the first time heart circles during our first residencies, and the effect of their presence was so profound that we just can’t go back anymore. ✨

Paleohori is not just a hosting space. It’s a field of exploration of togetherness, of meltingness through the other, in order for one to enhance profound transformations. Every year we get to understand a bit more about the unpredictable nature of human dynamics and feel no more than humble as hosts to all that unfolds. Heart circles helped us to see the other beyond the rational, the image, and its projections, by engaging in deep active listening and articulating emotions.

We saw people growing from individuals to communities with collective emotional intelligence that we rarely encounter. We see people traveling from country to country to reunite after the courses end or engaging in new adventures together.☀️

We know that heart circles can engineer higher emotional availability in order to process intense emotions collectively and individually. They hold a space for anyone ready enough to evolve through a highway of collective care or for the shy hearts that absorb like sponges, all contributing to a collective emotional regulation, release, and growth.

From now on, we’ll be implementing heart circles in other programs, including Unplugged, because beyond better regulation, we need rituals that ground us to our human nature. 🫂

O dusty mountains,
rugged mountains
Were you laughing at us,
watching us walking with strain?
When we’ve all been rejoicing
while seeing your veins.

O rusty mountains,
clumsy mountains,
What were you thinking
during our distant complaints?
All crying in a circle after we
shared our common pains.

20/01/2025

Dance Creation as a Reflective Practice 🍃✨

Are you a dance artist, and want to explore the creative process of dance as a reflective practice?
Paleohori invites you to apply for an immersive residency in Lefkada island. 🌊☀️

A co-living and practising set up within a diverse global community for 5 summer weeks, where participants will get the opportunity to explore their preference of practices, movement and dancing while focusing on simply being and being together with the rest of the group.

If you are interested in decolonised techniques, decentralised dance narratives, choreography and micro activisms, choreographic strategies for reflection, dramaturgical integration of the audience in the reflecting process and more, then this will be the nest for you to deeply explore, evolve and connect with similar thinking individuals and creators.

Dates: July 6th - August 10th, 2025
Location: Neohori, Lefkada, Ionian islands, Greece
Venue: Paleohori art-space
Duration: Five weeks
Application deadline: March 20th, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 27th, 2025

Regarding the collaborative nature of this residency, we hope it will go beyond its role as a platform for cultural exchange and become a community-building experience that addresses social issues, challenges norms and inspires positive change. 🦎

16/01/2025

Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance 🌻🐝

We are very happy to announce that the Permaculture residency which has been cooking since last year, will finally come to life this coming April!

This residency aims to explore how we can share a dance of equal bodies, not just as a life event, but as a way of being and being with others, inspired by the principles of permaculture.

Dates: April 14th - May 4th
Location: Neohori, Lefkada, Ionian islands, Greece
Venue: Paleohori art-space
Duration: Three weeks

Application deadline: February 15th 2025

Have you ever thought of dance as a sustainable practice? Have you ever thought of art as part of nature? Have you ever thought about how and if your actions affect the environment around us?

Topics that we will explore: Dance, permaculture, sustainability, self and collective care

For more information, you can find everything in our bio and if there is anything you might wonder about, please do not hesitate to slide in our DM’s.

🍃🌷

06/12/2024

A space can only come to life through the people who inhabit it, take care of it, nurture it and warm it up with their souls.

Here are some moments from the people that passed through our nest and left their mark.

1. Sandra’s creation from July’s residency
2. Julianna, painting the beams for the platform 👩🏻‍🎨
3. ⁠Hammock’s invitation to lay down and rest 😴
4. ⁠Nature salutation through a dance by Casey and Camil
5. ⁠Michalis and Kyveli are so strong! 💪🏼
6. ⁠Kyveli and Enora while Vasiliki’s Tsagari workshop in Unplugged Dance 2024
7. ⁠Well…
8. ⁠Performance in the silent forest by Michalis and Yorgos
9. ⁠A collective moment with all the lovely people who came to volunteer in the spring
10. ⁠Meditation spot
11. ⁠Showing us who the real boss is 🦗

Thank you all!

02/12/2024

With today’s sunrise marking the 2nd of December we can officially say that winter is here. Crispiness has started gathering in the air and we are really feeling the change of seasons while witnessing nature alternating her colours. 🧣🍁🍂

Things are slowly brewing as we have been given the space to brainstorm and organise our actions for the upcoming season. In the act of noticing you can often find the answers you had been looking for, and winter is the ideal season to do just that. We want to wish everyone a cosy and warm winter and we’ll be back with more updates regarding the program very soon!

Until then, have a happy festive month ahead and let the winter settle.

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27/11/2024

After some time of well deserved and very much needed rest, following an intense yet inspiring summer, we are back on track ready to dive into new creative processes for the next year! 🌱

As fall arrived, we found the space to reflect and digest everything that happened during the previous year and really felt our hearts full of thankfulness for every soul that our nest had the chance to host.

Speaking of that, as the seasons are changing and developing, so do our plans for the next year. Very soon, we will announce the new residencies and programs that Paleohori will be hosting for the next season, so if you want to stay up to date, all you have to do is keep an eye out through our instagram. 👀

Additionally, if you want to make sure that you won’t miss any important date or announcement, you can subscribe to our newsletter through the link in “contact us” or here.

Newsletter link: https://paleochoricamp.gr/contact-us-new/

We cannot wait to let you know about all the exciting things coming very soon 🙏🏼✨

07/09/2024

05/09/2024

23/08/2024

📣Looking for a volunteer to help us this September!

2 - 29 September we will be hosting an artistic residency with a diverse community of dance artists sharing and exchanging movement and artistic practices.

Dates: arrival could be between 1st - 9th of September, departure is on 29th of September.

Please contact us at [email protected] or DM for more info!



📸from July's artistic residency at Paleochori

16/08/2024

Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance: Dance, Permaculture, and Sustainability October

Dates: October 7th – 28th, 2024

We are excited to announce an open call for our upcoming residency, “Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance,” which focuses on the intersection of dance, permaculture, and sustainability. This residency aims to explore how we can share a dance of equal bodies that is not just a life event but a way of being and being with others.

Duration: three weeks

Application Deadline: 31st of August

For more info check the link in bio..

04/08/2024

Last month was a blast of new inputs, new practices, fun, work, sun, and grasshoppers. During our first residency, we grew in so many ways that we can't describe in this post. We'll miss you all 🐚❤️!!

03/07/2024

Our first Dance Improvisation and Movement Research Residency started a few days ago, and we feel so grateful that this wonderful team has arrived in Paleochori! 💚🍃🌳