27th Kalamata Dance Festival 2021
16-25 July 2021
Artistic Director: Linda Kapetanea
Artistic note
Dear friends,
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 27th Kalamata Dance Festival.
Here we are again, at the Festival, after a difficult winter. Filled with optimism, as small and large stages worldwide are slowly opening again to the public, we meet with a single concern: to keep our contact with the art of dance alive.
The title of this year’s programme On The Move. Constantly On The Move. Together; Or Alone? was born from our need to discuss the importance of community and role of each and every individual in it. We believe that from now on humanity will have to face increasing challenges in terms of its collective consciousness, intelligence, and actions.
The artists that participate in this year’s Festival speak through the power of dance, with works that invite us to feel all of the notions resulting from the relationship between community and individual—notions such as trust, solidarity, and acceptance, conflict, negotiation, autonomy, individual identity, and freedom.
Above all, however, the artists and their works highlight the art of dance as a universal language and meeting place for our common concerns about the current human condition.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here once again so that we can co-create this common space of mystery for each performance, where we can experience other versions of the present and imagine more versions of the future.
Linda Kapetanea
Artistic Director Kalamata Dance Festival
Main program
PERFORMANCES
- Compagnie XY & Rachid Ouramdane
Möbius - Faizah Grootens
Cornered - Venetsiana Kalampaliki
RE-CALL - Diego Tortelli
Feeling good - Roser López Espinosa
Fine lines - Adi Boutrous
One more thing - Maria Fonseca
DEN.TRO - Botis Seva
BLKDOG - Garage I 21
Ǝ V A - Maria Fonseca
DEN.TRO - Botis Seva
BLKDOG - Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Nadja – Who am I? - Alexander Vantournhout / Not Standing
Through the grapevine - Oona Doherty
Hope hunt & the ascension into Lazarus - RootlessRoot
Stones and bones - Katerina Andreou
Zeppelin Bend - The QDance Company
Re:INCARNATION
KALAMATA MAIN SQUARE PERFORMANCES
- Maria Fonseca
Sahasrara – Extract - Diego Sinniger
LIOV - Jos Baker / Trodden Dreams
Know it all - Eleni Roberts & Solal Mariotte
You wonder what I see - Lívia Balážová
#WHATEVERISTRENDINGNOW - Kostas Phoenix
Enter illusion - Aspasia Kiradenidou
Restriction spectrum - Anna Maria Karounou
Organizing pessimism - Lasandra Cypi
Revolution of the body - Alexander Vantournhout
Bowling ball - Lamprini Gkolia
Orlando - Akira Yoshida & Chey Jurado
Hito - Alexandros El Greco
Each precious moment (extract) - Eirini Apostolatou
Articulated dynamics - Petrina Giannakou
There is a place
WORKSHOPS
- Jos Baker
Physicology - Lívia Balážová
Mindcross
MASTERCLASSES
- Akira Yoshida
Up, but down, but fast, but slow, but wild, but sensitive - Chey Jurado
Sensitive skills - Jozef Fruček
Fighting Monkey Practice – Coordinations - Linda Kapetanea
Fighting Monkey Practice – From the Other Side - Adila Omotosho / The QDance Company
Masterclass
OTHER WORKSHOPS
- KDF children: Vitoria Kotsalou
Freedom: Intensive dance workshop for children and teenagers (ages 5-18) - KDF disability-inclusion: Venetsiana Kalampaliki, Irini Kourouvani, Vivi Christodoulopoulou
Dance workshop for people with disabilities - KDF 50+: Penelope Morout
50+ Movement workshop for adults - KDF 70+: Vitoria Kotsalou
Workshop for the elderly 70+ - KDF family: Vitoria Kotsalou
YUM: Workshop for parents and children
SIDE EVENTS
- Children’s art digital exhibition in collaboration with the Museum of Cycladic Art
Everyday heroes