Artistic note
This year, the Kalamata Dance Festival celebrates 25 consecutive years of enriching our country’s contemporary artistic creation and culture. During this time it has achieved its own special status, not only in Greece but also in the wider Mediterranean region, promoting contemporary dance and introducing the public to its most important innovators, both Greek and foreign.
This year, on its 25th anniversary, the Festival focuses on the theme of Time. Time in its various aspects, with moments that change the course of our personal and collective histories, whether through dark journeys or luminous ones, with periods of maturation, intensive work or rest, revolution, struggle, or complacency, but always invisibly present with its perpetual transforming power. Equally transforming is Time’s relationship with the human body, whose limits remain unknown and mysterious.
I feel more than happy that we are hosting such unique guests this year. We will have the opportunity to meet famous artists, who have left a strong mark in their art, but also new talents, who have already set out upon their remarkable journeys.
Kalamata embraces the 25th Dance Festival with its unique hospitality and more importantly with the awareness that art is not a luxury but a basic human need— especially the art of dance, which is based on the human body.
Linda Kapetanea
Artistic Director
Kalamata Dance Festival
