Artistic note
Dear friends,
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 28th Kalamata Dance Festival.
As a result of our previous work on the human body and human movement, but also as a continuation of themes explored in past iterations of the Festival since 2018 and up to and including the past two years of the pandemic, we decided during this year’s organisation to focus on highlighting the great and philosophically, morally, socially and artistically inexhaustible subject of Beauty.
This year’s programme is entitled Ode to Beauty and it invites us to realise that Beauty is our only means of resisting everything that we encounter as its polar opposite on a daily basis: All forms of violence, all the actions and declarations that lead to pain and frustration, as well as to the dissolution of our connection with the world around us.
Sometimes beauty is revealed in time as a completed work, while other times it appears as a snapshot where it is least expected. Whether it is elusive or readily apparent, variable or eternal, objective or relative, our goal is to not only have the resources to recognise it but also the tools we need to create, experience and share it.
We dancers try to serve beauty through the stories we tell in the context of our art. Our inspiration is movement itself, life itself. From the smallest organism to the largest mountain range, from the simplest children’s game to the movement of galaxies, everything that moves is an essential part of life.
Our admiration for life, however, does not suffice. Our mission is to discover our own relationship with it through our work. Beauty is only possible through goodness, solidarity and love. Their essence is not theoretical; it emanates from the bodies, their gestures, their words, their actions, and the relationships forged between them.
This is what we exalt: The embodiment of beauty.
Linda Kapetanea
Artistic Director Kalamata Dance Festival
Main program
PERFORMANCES
- PEEPING TOM
TRIPTYCH: The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor
- BRIGEL GJOKA, RAUF “RUBBERLEGZ” YASIT & RUŞAN FILIZTEK
NEIGHBOURS
- LA VERONAL
SONOMA
- PIERGIORGIO MILANO
W H I T E O U T – The conquest of the useless
- EDIVALDO ERNESTO
BRACE
- ALEXANDRA WAIERSTALL
VENUS un/seen
- MARIANNA KAVALLIERATOS
EVER AFTER
- ANASTASIA VALSAMAKI
W REST L ING
- PENELOPE MOROUT / CROSS IMPACT
THE BOX || that dead space between us
- LALI AYGUADÉ COMPANY
HIDDEN
- CIE IOANNIS MANDAFOUNIS
SCARBO
KALAMATA MAIN SQUARE PERFORMANCES
- PIERGIORGIO MILANO
DENTI
- ELELEI COMPANY
BLINDLY
- XENIA STATHOULI
NERTI
- ARIAS FERNANDEZ / THE JOKERZ COMPANY
‘US’
- PENELOPE MOROUT
NADEZHDA
- SOTIRIA KOUTSOPETROU
SO IT GOES*
- NEFELI ASTERIOU
AND OTHER SYMBOLS
- BARBARA BARDAKA
THE FALLING OBJECT
- FENIA CHATZAKOU & CSENGER K. SZABÓ
STILL LOVE
- LALI AYGUADÉ & AKIRA YOSHIDA
GIZAKI
- FABIAN THOMÉ / FULL TIME COMPANY
IMPERMANENCE
- MARIANA TZOUDA
DESIDERIUM
WORKSHOPS
- EDIVALDO ERNESTO
Depth Movement Workshop
- CHRISTINE GOUZELIS & PAUL BLACKMAN
1000 ways to hold
- AKIRA YOSHIDA
UP, BUT DOWN, BUT FAST, BUT SLOW, BUT WILD, BUT SENSITIVE
- LALI AYGUADÉ
From gravity to lightness
MASTERCLASSES
- ARIAS FERNANDEZ / JOKER
Krump Masterclass
OTHER WORKSHOPS
- KDF children: Vitoria Kotsalou
The Forest: Intensive dance workshop for children and young people (ages 5-18)
- KDF disability-inclusion: Venetsiana Kalampaliki & Irini Kourouvani
Dance workshop for people with disabilities
- KDF 50+: Penelope Morout
FIGHTING MONKEY PRACTICE 50+ – Movement workshop for adults
- KDF family: Vitoria Kotsalou
Ι SEE YOU SEE ME YOU OR THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN: Workshop for parents and children
SIDE EVENTS
DANCE IN CITIES OF THE REGION OF PELOPONNESE
CORINTH
- PENELOPE MOROUT
NADEZHDA
- ELELEI COMPANY
BLINDLY
TRIPOLI & NAFPLIO
- AKIRA YOSHIDA & CHEY JURADO
HITO
KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON
KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON & MAIN SQUARE
- ART WITHIN ONE
Festival artists and students improvise on stage
