The Body as Site, the Site as Body
Organization:
Kaiafas Residency
Location
International
, XX
Entry Fee
Paid Entry
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Artist Residency & Site-Specific Performance Intensive Greece 2026| Greece 2026
A curated international performance residency in a Natura 2000 landscape in Lake Kaiafa, Peloponnese region, Greece (Europe).
9–12 July 2026
Tutors: Dimitra Nikolopoulou & Eliza Soroga
The four-day site-specific performance & artist residency “The body as site, the site as body” at Lake Kaiafas is an intensive educational program in performance & live art offering opportunities for artistic research and creative experimentation within the natural landscape of the Peloponnese.
Participants will engage with fundamental tools for creating performance and live art actions in dialogue with nature and the extra-urban environment through site-specific approaches centered on the concepts of “place” and “body.”
Workshop participants will cultivate spatial and artistic methodologies on both research and practical levels, developing new individual and collective performance works while exploring new concepts in dialogue with the surrounding environment: the lake, the regenerated Strofilia pine forest, the two ancient therapeutic springs, and the distinctive coastline with its unique sand dunes. The Kaiafas area is a protected Natura 2000 site and has functioned as a thermal spa location since antiquity.
How do we create a site-specific performance?
How does the body function as a rich site of experiences, social and political identities, emotions, memories, etc.?
How can the poetics of a place be integrated into the compositional process?
Within the artistic residency framework, questions are activated through experiential practices aiming toward the creation of new individual and participatory collective works through a site-specific approach, where the natural landscape becomes the starting point of the work and enters into an interactive dialogue with its central concept, informing its structure, research, and development.
Body – natural landscape – movement – time functions as key conceptual axes.
During the practical sessions, emphasis will be placed on developing the spatial awareness of the artistic subject through the body, introducing notions such as time, natural elements (water, flora, fauna, soil, etc.), scale, sensorial-motor experience, personal storytelling, spatial memory, rhythms of trust, and more.
The exercise toolbox includes: walking meditations, activation stillness practices, butoh, collaborating ensembles, scores, sensorial-motor actions, field research, community art practices, psychomotor exercises, voice-body-speech activation, non-linear narratives, and development of individual artistic poetics. Exercises and activities combine both individual and collaborative processes and will primarily take place within the natural outdoor landscape.
A curated international performance residency in a Natura 2000 landscape in Lake Kaiafa, Peloponnese region, Greece (Europe).
9–12 July 2026
Tutors: Dimitra Nikolopoulou & Eliza Soroga
The four-day site-specific performance & artist residency “The body as site, the site as body” at Lake Kaiafas is an intensive educational program in performance & live art offering opportunities for artistic research and creative experimentation within the natural landscape of the Peloponnese.
Participants will engage with fundamental tools for creating performance and live art actions in dialogue with nature and the extra-urban environment through site-specific approaches centered on the concepts of “place” and “body.”
Workshop participants will cultivate spatial and artistic methodologies on both research and practical levels, developing new individual and collective performance works while exploring new concepts in dialogue with the surrounding environment: the lake, the regenerated Strofilia pine forest, the two ancient therapeutic springs, and the distinctive coastline with its unique sand dunes. The Kaiafas area is a protected Natura 2000 site and has functioned as a thermal spa location since antiquity.
How do we create a site-specific performance?
How does the body function as a rich site of experiences, social and political identities, emotions, memories, etc.?
How can the poetics of a place be integrated into the compositional process?
Within the artistic residency framework, questions are activated through experiential practices aiming toward the creation of new individual and participatory collective works through a site-specific approach, where the natural landscape becomes the starting point of the work and enters into an interactive dialogue with its central concept, informing its structure, research, and development.
Body – natural landscape – movement – time functions as key conceptual axes.
During the practical sessions, emphasis will be placed on developing the spatial awareness of the artistic subject through the body, introducing notions such as time, natural elements (water, flora, fauna, soil, etc.), scale, sensorial-motor experience, personal storytelling, spatial memory, rhythms of trust, and more.
The exercise toolbox includes: walking meditations, activation stillness practices, butoh, collaborating ensembles, scores, sensorial-motor actions, field research, community art practices, psychomotor exercises, voice-body-speech activation, non-linear narratives, and development of individual artistic poetics. Exercises and activities combine both individual and collaborative processes and will primarily take place within the natural outdoor landscape.