24th Kalamata Dance Festival 2018
13-22 July 2018
Artistic Director: Linda Kapetanea
Artistic note
It’s my great joy and honour to welcome you to the 24th Kalamata International Dance Festival.
I’m grateful for being given the opportunity to be the Festival’s Artistic Director so that I may share with you today my never-ending love of dance and my vision for this prestigious event, its national and international role.
I believe in dance as a basic human need.
I believe in dance that defines the meaning of humanity and unlocks the potential of humanity.
As a dancer, choreographer, and viewer, my interest is firmly on dance in the service of the creative urge, resonating with our non-verbal discovery of the world.
Together with my collaborators, we have envisioned, and work towards, a Festival that is open to the arts, to research and education, for all ages and walks of life, to the city of Kalamata, to the world; a Festival that is generous and supportive for artists, with a range of activities spread throughout the year and a strong presence on the global culture map.
Feeling a need to demonstrate that dance has the power to inspire, this year we sought to bring centre stage dance masters, multifaceted artists, and extraordinary performers.
We have invited acts that test the limits of the human body, so that we may reflect on our own abilities as well as find the strength to achieve our goals and dreams. We have prepared a rich programme, featuring artists and performers who are restless, fearless, agile, risky, wild, funny, enchanting, subversive, poignant, groundbreaking, enigmatic, unstoppable.
They’re coming. They are here. I sincerely hope you enjoy them heartily.
Linda Kapetanea
Artistic Director Kalamata International Dance Festival
Main program
PERFORMANCES
- Compañίa Sharon Fridman
Free Fall (Greek premiere) - Olivier De Sagazan
Transfiguration - Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus
Go Figure Out Yourself - Cie Circoncentrique
Respire! (Greek premiere) - Thi-Mai Nguyen
Etna (Greek premiere) - Amorphy / Tzeni Argyriou
Anonymo / Coproduction with Onassis Cultural Centre - Anton Lachky Company
Cartoon - Edivaldo Ernesto
Tears - Jukstapoz Company / Christine Gouzelis & Paul Blackman
The Art of Dying / Coproduction with Athens & Epidaurus Festival - Josef Nadj & Joëlle Léandre
Penzum
- Svalbard Company
All Genius All Idiot (Greek premiere) - Marquese Scott & Poppin John
(Greek premiere) - Kόkakepanu / Konstantina Efthymiadou & Panagiotis Manouilidis
In Case of Loss / Coproduction with Kalamata Dance Festival, world premiere - Les SlovaKs
Journey Home
OUTDOOR
- Akira Yoshida
Home (Greek premiere) - Peter Jasko
18 - Edivaldo Εrnesto & Luis García López
Glitches - Athanasia Kanellopoulou
99 corners of a possible self / In collaboration with Kalamata Municipal Conservatory – International Kalamata Music Days - Liadain Herriott
Οn a Tangent (Greek premiere) - Tom Weksler
Water (Greek premiere) - Marquese Scott & John Poppin
(Greek premiere) - Frédéri Vernier & Justine Berthillot
Noos (Greek premiere)
SIDE EVENTS
- Photo Exhibition Inhancutilitatem by Josef Nadj
- Latin Jazz Evening El Violin Latino meets Yumarya, in collaboration with the festival International Kalamata Music Days organized by Kalamata Municipal Conservatory
- Workshop for children performance The Lost Sock
WORKSHOPS
- Peter Jasko
- Edivaldo Ernesto
MASTERCLASS
- Masterclass Marquese Scott & Poppin John
OTHER WORKSHOPS
- Dance workshop for children The lost sock. Research – Concept development – Choreography: Vitoria Kotsalou
- Dancing My Way. Τhe therapeutic and inclusive aspect of Dance for People with Disabilities. Project Director: Sofia F. Droumpali. Lecturers: Sue Curtis, Juliet Diener, Sofia F. Droumpali. In collaboration with Pharis, Kalamata Municipal Dance School and the Centre of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of Kalamata
VIDEO PRODUCTION
- Video production in the context of the Dance Workshop for People with Disabilities Dancing My Way – Sofia F. Droumpali (2018)