21.07 | 20:00 [22΄] KALAMATA MAIN SQUARE Description Do Birds Dream of Flying? is a performance in which two artists explore themes of balance, freedom, and limitation through movement and an originally designed set piece. At the centre of the performance is a swinging and rotating ladder, weighted at its base, which opens up an…
24.07 | 20:00 [40′] KALAMATA MUNICIPAL RAILWAY PARK Description The leading improvisation teacher, dancer, and choreographer David Zambrano presents Mariposa, a solo performance rooted in spontaneous composition, based on the method and practices he has developed and teaches internationally. In this work, stage presence meets real-time movement research, as he composes live on stage, transforming…
23.07 | 22:00 [55’] KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON – MAIN STAGE TicketsDescription In Maldonne, the first ensemble performance by French rising star Leïla Ka, a playful yet powerful portrait of femininity emerges. Five dancers in long floral dresses move in a controlled and synchronised way, their movements tuned to breaths and voices. But what begins as…
19.07 | 21:00 [40′] KALAMATA MAIN SQUARE Description An evening dedicated to the body as a bearer of memory, imagination, and transformation. The third-year students of the Greek National School of Dance (KSOT) present an evening of contemporary dance through excerpts from contemporary works that engage in dialogue with memory, nature, and collective experience. The…
THE KALAMATA INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL AT ANCIENT MESSENE The Kalamata International Dance Festival inaugurates a new collaboration with the archaeological site of Ancient Messene, proposing a distinctive experience that connects the site with its history while reactivating its collective dimension in the present. The evening is structured in two parts. The first part is a…
18.07 | 19:00 & 19.07 | 22:00 [60΄] KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON – ALTERNATIVE STAGE TicketsDescription Mercury Rising emerges from a phenomenological excavation of language. Created in collaboration with and performed by Dawn Jani Birley, Rita Mazza and Lukas Malkowski, the performance charts both ancient and future non-linear languages, navigating the terrain between communication, gesture, agency,…
17.07 | 21:30 & 18.07 | 22:00 [65’] KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON – MAIN STAGE TicketsDescription A small group of human beings has gathered on a floor. The platform on which they stand is not fixed. It shakes, loses its horizontality and begins to spin, faster and faster. It takes on the appearance of a raft…
25 & 26.07.26 | 22:00 [60′] KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON – MAIN STAGE TICKETSDescription The Greek National Opera Ballet’s new production, To Have Been So Close So Many Times, creates a multidimensional stage universe where modern dance intersects and viscerally coexists with music theatre in a never-ending conversation. At its core lies a new work by…
18.07.26 | 21:00 [35′] KALAMATA MAIN SQUARE Description The Greek National Opera’s Professional Dance School presents the performance Μetamorphosis, under the guidance of its Director of Studies, Yorghos Matskaris. The school’s students will challenge themselves with a demanding diptych of modern dance, featuring choreographies by Cyril Baldy and Jesús Rubio Gamo. The internationally distinguished French…
David Zambrano has been a monumental figure in the international dance community for more than 40 years, and his passion for cultural exchange continues to influence his work.
