25th Kalamata Dance Festival 2019

19–28 July 2019

Artistic Director: Linda Kapetanea

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 

Main program

PERFORMANCES

  • Joy Alpuerto Ritter
    Babae (Greek premiere)
  • CCN de La Rochelle / Cie Accrorap – Kader Attou
    The Roots
  • Josef Nadj
    Mnémosyne
  • arisandmartha / Aris Papadopoulos & Martha Pasakopoulou
  • Lucy. tutorial for a ritual
  • kabinet k / Joke Laureyns & Kwint Manshoven
    Invisible (Greek premiere)
  • Ki omOs kineitai
    The Master and Margarita
  • Le Galactik Ensemble
    Optraken (Greek premiere)
  • Lali Ayguadé Company
    iU an Mi (Greek premiere)
  • Katerina Andreou
    BSTRD
  • Akram Khan Company
    Until the Lions
  • Cie Le Neil – Link Berthomieux
    Vendetta (Greek premiere)

OUTDOOR

  • TrashDollys
    Cape Alley (Greek premiere)
  • Andi Xhuma
    Tipping point
  • Ioulia Zacharaki
    wethericecream weatheriscream
  • Joy Alpuerto Ritter & Lukas Steltner
    Shall we…?! (Greek premiere)
  • Anna Calsina Forrellad & Quentin Manfroy
    An invitation to… (Greek premiere)
  • Lali Ayguadé Company
    Entre dos (Greek premiere)
  • Eva Georgitsopoulou
    miTerra
  • Physical Momentum – Francisco Córdova
    OHTLI (Path) (Greek premiere)
  • Chey Jurado
    Agua (Greek premiere)
  • Les Vikings Cie
    L’Aveuglement (Greek premiere)
  • Cie Le Neil – Link Berthomieux
    On this ground (Greek premiere)

SIDE EVENTS

  • Photo Exhibition Mnémosyne by Josef Nadj
  • Photo Exhibition Ten by Mike Rafail
  • Photo Exhibition Bodies in the Light by the Kalamata Photography Association
  • Screening of Raymond Saint-Jean‘s Documentary on the life of Louise Lecavalier / Louise Lecavalier: In Motion
  • A two-day tribute to Hungarian Filmmaker Béla Tarr. / Screening of the films: Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies) & A torinói ló (The Turin Horse)
  • Live Music Performance Dancing the Blues by the Blues Escape Band, in collaboration with the festival International Kalamata Music Days organized by Kalamata Municipal Conservatory
  • Workshop for children performance Kaleidoscope

WORKSHOPS

  • Dance Workshop led by Jozef Fruček & Manuel Ronda
    A minute of lies: acting and dance workshop
  • Dance Workshop led by Joy Alpuerto Ritter
    Hybrid Movement Workshop
  • Dance Workshop led by Francisco Córdova
    Body Action
  • Dance Workshop led by Lali Ayguadé
    From lightness to gravity

OTHER WORKSHOPS

  • Dance and Choreography Workshops for Children led by Vitoria Kotsalou
    Kaleidoscope
  • Dance Workshop for People with Disabilities Dancing Our Way Sofia F. Droumpali
  • Movement Workshop for Adults led by Antonis Strouzas / Fighting Monkey Practice (50+)

LECTURES

  • Jozef Fruček
    The Ageing Body

Media

TRAILER PERFORMANCES

TRAILER WORKSHOPS & LECTURE

VIDEO PRODUCTION

Video production in the context of the Dance Workshop for People with Disabilities “Dancing Our Way - Live and Alive on Stage” - Sofia F. Droumpali (2019)