Program Dance in the city
16.07 | 21:00
Kalamata Main Square
ELEFTHERIA ILIOPOULOU
FANTASTIC, ISN’T IT?
“He turned all of his daydreams into undeniable realities”, says Charles Baudelaire in his book Artificial Paradise. In a world where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are blurred, the art of subjectifying all experiences and the absence of objectivity easily turn a possible fantastical scenario into reality. And somehow this creates the fascinating possibility of the existence of innumerable realities, as many as the perceptions of the people who share the same cosmic time. Is it truth or illusion? Do you trust or deny everything you knew by thinking that it’s merely a creation of your imagination?
Admission to all Kalamata Main Square performances and side events is free for all.
- Original Music Composition: George Nikas
- Costumes: Raf the Rough
Promotional material:
- Photography: Eleni Iliopoulou & Kostas Moraitopoulos
- Video: Vassia Kolliou
ELEFTHERIA ILIOPOULOU
Eleftheria Iliopoulou is an honors graduate of the Greek National School of Dance in Athens and the Department of Computer Science of the Athens University of Economics and Business. She has collaborated with Marianna Kavallieratos at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, with Alexandros Stavropoulos at Onassis Stegi, with Penny Diamantopoulou on the Martha Graham and Greek Myth project and with Lida Doumouliaka at the Theater der Künste in Zurich. She took part in the Rolex Arts Festival 2023 with Khoodia Thoure and in the Eleusis European Capital of Culture 2023, performing in Mysteries 0 and 113. She has been a performer with the “Farm in the Cave” International Theatre Studio in Prague since 2018. In 2020, she presented her first solo work Fighting Eagerly Against Reality [FEAR] at the 26th Kalamata Dance Festival. As a member of the Hellenic Dance Company, she has also danced for Anton Lachky, Antonis Foniadakis and the Fluxum Foundation.
Eleftheria also teaches contemporary dance and utilizes improvisation as a way of studying the inner self and its interaction with the world. She believes that dance exists around us as an integral part of our reality.