EMOTIONAL DOGS | 45'

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EMOTIONAL DOGS is an escapist journey.

Our heroes swirl, dive into a watery world, where their only connection to the upper world is a "control center" with radio transmitters, televisions, cassette players. Fragmented stimuli interrupt their surfacing mission – when the relationship between the rational and emotional brain is violently disrupted, the whole body enters a constant state of survival.

EMOTIONAL DOGS focuses on the concept of trauma and its management, with the aim of freeing the imagination from mental shackles and restoring the ability of the human body, no matter how "broken" it is, to dream and hope.

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PENELOPE MOROUT / CROSS IMPACT​

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Penelope Morout (GR-FR), founder of CROSS IMPACT Company, is an interdisciplinary dance artist, intrigued by creating hybrid projects through the fusion of various performing and visual art mediums. Graduated from the National School of Dance (Athens) and the National Technical University of Athens – School of Architecture, with a Master’s degree in Theatre Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL), her artistic identity lies on a durational creative process, during which academic and artistic research are intrinsically connected with her movement practice.

Penelope works constantly between Greece and abroad as a performer, choreographer, dance teacher, scenographer and filmmaker. As an educator, she has shaped her own movement practice “Sculpting Body-Images”, which she shares around the world. Penelope implements in her teaching methodology elements inspired by “Fighting Monkey”, a practice by Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek, with whom she has been training for 15 years.

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CREDITS​

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Concept & Artistic Direction: Penelope Morout

Choreography & Performance: Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Penelope Morout

Specialized Artistic Advisor: Fenia Kotsopoulou

Music Composition & Sound Design: Chris Parapagidis

Set & Costume Design: Penelope Morout, Ilianna Skoulaki

Set & Costume Construction: Ilianna Skoulaki

Video-projections during performance: Fenia Kotsopoulou

Light Design: Tasos Palaioroutas

Video Trailer & Photography: Fenia Kotsopoulou

Video Mapping: Panayotis Lambis

Executive Production: Kassi Kafetsi (CULTOPIA) & Jenny Mazi

Communication: Jenny Mazi

Production: CROSS IMPACT | Penelope Morout

EMOTIONAL DOGS was held under the auspices and the financial support of the

Ministry of Culture, while its tour under the auspices and the financial support of the latter and the J.F. Kostopoulos Foundation.

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