Studies
2018-2020 ArtEZ Uiniversity of the Arts, Master Theatre Practices (Arnhem, Netherlands). Cum Laude.
2009-2012 National School of Dance in Athens, BA in Dance and Choreography (Athens, Greece)
2007-2008 Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Dance Theatre (London, U.K.)
2000-2008 National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.) - School of Architecture, BA of Architect engineer [Master equivalent] (Greece)
Funding
The HAMLET non-profit exhibition program | a relief fund as a support for the ramifications of the Coranavirus pandemic in my current work H.I.I.T..
Residencies
March 2020: The Ecole Nationale de Cirque de Châtellerault in France.
March 2020: The Fabbrica Europa Foundation / PARC Performing Arts Research Centre in Florence, Italy. | postponed due to Covid-19.
April 2020: The Murate Artistic District in Florence, in Italy. | postponed due to Covid-19.
PENELOPE MOROUT is a Greek-French performance artist coming from a background of Dance and Architecture. She began her studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and graduated from the Greek National School of Dance in Athens (KSOT). She has also a bachelor's and master's equivalent in Architecture Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a master's in Theatre Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
She has taken classes and participated in various schools and festivals around the world, such as Deltebre Workshop Danza in Spain, the School of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York, ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival in Austria, DOCH School of Dance and Circus in Sweden, Brocante International Circus Festival in Italy, Kalamata International Dance Festival in Greece, Akropoditi Dancefest in Greece. She has also participated in a series of Fighting Monkey | RootlessRoot workshops around Europe.
Penelope has collaborated professionally with various dance and theater companies, such as Juxtapoz Dance Company (Christine Gouzelis-Paul Blackman) for the creation of the opera Alcestes (2015 – Athens Concert Hall), director Kostas Fillipoglou for the creation of the ancient tragedy Prometheus Bound (2015 – Athens and Epidaurus Festival) and So7 Company (Dimitris Kouroumpalis-Frosso Korrou) for the dance-theatre performance Παρασκευή Παλιμπαιδισμού [Friday Night/Game Night] (2016 – Neos Kosmos Theatre).
As an independent cross-disciplinary artist, her expressive tools are drawing, dancing, crafting, filming. In 2018, she directed, choreographed the theater play Folie à Deux (2019 – Sfendoni Theatre). For this production, she also collaborated with Ioannis Kritikopoulos for designing the sets. In 2019, she choreographed and did the set design for the theater play Ψ. Future plans include participation at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival in September 2020 with T.E.P. | The Elephant Project, an artivist collaboration with choreographer Christina Mastori (a live installation performance already presented in COME TOGETHER #4 Festival in Amsterdam in February 2019, NL), as well as premiering with her solo dance performance HIIT | High-Intensity Identity Training in September 2020 in Amsterdam and rehearsing on her new project SKIN.
Upcoming Events
7-8/09/2020 Performing at Amsterdam Fringe Festival (NL) with T.E.P. | The Elephant Project.
17-21/08/2020 Teaching at MUDA | DANCESTAGE, in Ghent (BE). Sculpting Body-Images workshop.