THE ARTIST
Penelope Morout is an interdisciplinary dance artist, choreographer, scenographer and theatre maker. She is also the founder of CROSS IMPACT Company.
Her practice brings together choreography, performance, visual arts, scenography and moving image. She explores how these different languages can meet within live performance.
Penelope graduated from the National School of Dance and the School of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens. She holds a Master’s degree in Theatre Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands.
Artistic Practice
Penelope works in Greece and internationally as a performer, choreographer, scenographer and theatre maker. Her interdisciplinary background shapes the way she approaches choreography.
She works with a cinematographic gaze, bringing ideas of framing, perspective, spatial composition and time into live performance. Movement, performers, space and image remain in constant dialogue throughout her work.
Her choreographic works include THE BOX: That Dead Space Between Us, EMOTIONAL DOGS and COME HELL OR HIGH WATER. She has also developed moving-image work and participated in video-dance festivals internationally.
Teaching Practice
Penelope has developed Sculpting Body-Images (SBI), a movement practice that combines physical research with physical training.
SBI uses body–voice improvisation, pattern recognition, transformation, curiosity and play. The practice also explores contact, coordination, rhythm, stamina and motor skills. Together, these elements support the development of an agile and resilient body.
Penelope has shared SBI through workshops and teaching engagements in Greece and internationally, including India, Costa Rica, Chile, Belgium and Germany.
Her pedagogical approach is informed by 16 years of training in Fighting Monkey, founded by Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek.
Cross iMPact | Penelope Morout
Cross iMPact is an interdisciplinary dance company founded in Athens in 2021 by choreographer and performer Penelope Morout.
The company works across dance, theatre, sound, scenography, visual arts and multimedia. Its practice places the body at the centre of attention and explores the relationship between performer, spectator and space.
Cross iMPact creates performances that bring together different artistic languages. The work explores embodied identity, memory, human connection and the relationship between personal experience and collective history.
Cross iMPact has received support for artistic creation and touring from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation. The company collaborates with festivals, schools and cultural institutions in Greece and internationally.