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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

Media

KDF 2024 Aftermovie

Kalamata Dance Festival 2024 | Official Trailer

KDF Professional Workshops - Applications Now Open!