30th Kalamata Dance Festival 2024
12-21 Ιουλίου 2024
Artistic Director: Linda Kapetanea
Artistic note
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Kalamata Dance Festival, a cornerstone in Greece’s cultural life.
I can’t envision contemporary dance in Greece without the Kalamata Dance Festival; it is intertwined with its very history.
Founded to inspire audiences and address issues of collective and personal life through the art of dance, the festival also aims to nurture the next generation of artists. Only by cultivating new generations of dancers and audiences can the Festival have a future. Supporting institutions, education, culture, and art, is crucial for the future of Greek society. Yet, art is inconceivable without artists.
That is why the 30th Kalamata Dance Festival is dedicated to the artists of movement, to those courageous individuals who have chosen the challenging path of dance, preserving one of the oldest forms of expression against time and decay.
Furthermore, the 30th Kalamata Dance Festival is dedicated to all the children, teens, and young people who may be encountering dance for the first time, those who already dance, or who dream of stepping onto the stage one day. The future is theirs.
Linda Kapetanea
Artistic Director
Kalamata Dance Festival
Main program
PERFORMANCES
- HESSISCHES STAATSBALLETT | MARCO GOECKE | IMRE & MARNE VAN OPSTAL
MIDNIGHT RAGA / I’M AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR SMILE - PATRICIA APERGI // AERITES DANCE COMPANY
ΤHE HOUSE OF TROUBLE - BOTIS SEVA
UNTIL WE SLEEP - ATHANASIA KANELLOPOULOU
TWO — MATTERS OF EXISTENCE - DIEGO TORTELLI & MIRIA WURM
TERRANOVA | hidden link - HARRIS GKEKAS
THOUSAND - JOSEF NADJ
FULL MOON - LALI AYGUADÉ COMPANY
RUNA
KALAMATA MAIN SQUARE PERFORMANCES
- YOANN BOURGEOIS ART COMPANY
APPROACH 17. OPENING The unreachable suspension point - EDIVALDO ERNESTO & EVA GEORGITSOPOULOU
PRESSURE WAVE - MARIA FOUNTOULI
TRANSPARENT - MARIA MANOUKIAN
RE B OU N D - GREEK NATIONAL SCHOOL OF DANCE / HARRIS GKEKAS
ECSTATIC APORIA - ELEFTHERIA ILIOPOULOU
FANTASTIC, ISN’T IT? - PETER JASKO
THE DANCE OF CHANGE - ALEGIA PAPAGEORGIOU & MARIA BREGIANNI
BREATH - KOSTAS PHOENIX & CHAOTIC UNIVERSE
I USED TO WANT TO BE A SUPERHERO - IRO KONTI / MNIM DANCE CO.
MODULUS OF RESILIENCE - THOMAS MARTINO
LIGHEA
WORKSHOPS
- EDIVALDO ERNESTO
DEPTH_MOVEMENT - Elpida Skourou
AKRAM KHAN REPERTORY - PETER JASKO
DEEP MOVEMENT CONSCIOUSNESS - Linda Kapetanea
FIGHTING MONKEY PRACTICE – IMPROVISATION - FAR FROM THE NORM
MASTERCLASS
OTHER WORKSHOPS
Kalamata Dance Megaron
- Vitoria Kotsalou
THE WORLD ΑΤ OUR FEET
Dance workshop for children and teens - Penelope Morout
FIGHTING MONKEY PRACTICE 50+
MOVEMENT WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS - Vitoria Kotsalou
ΙΝ BETWEEN
Dance workshop for parents and children - MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART & KALAMATA DANCE FESTIVAL
GIVING RHYTHM TO SCULPTURE
Art workshop for children
HOUSE OF EVENTS, NAVARINO DUNES, COSTA NAVARINO
- Vitoria Kotsalou
ΙΝ BETWEEN
Dance workshop for parents and children
Kalamata Municipal Cultural Centre
- IRINI KOUROUVANI & VENETSIANA KALAMPALIKI
DANCE WORKSHOP FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Eliopoulos Museum | Filiatra
- PENELOPE MOROUT
50+ MOVEMENT WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS
SIDE EVENTS
NAVARINO AGORA, NAVARINO BAY, COSTA NAVARINO
- IRO KONTI / MNIM DANCE CO.
MODULUS OF RESILIENCE - THOMAS MARTINO
LIGHEA
DANCE IN CITIES OF THE REGION OF PELOPONNESE
PYLOS, TRIPOLI, NAFPLIO
- YOANN BOURGEOIS ART COMPANY
APPROACH 17. OPENING The unreachable suspension point
KALAMATA MUNICIPAL STADIUM & MAIN SQUARE
- ART WITHIN ONE
FINAL