Kalamata International Dance Festival (Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Χορού Καλαμάτας)

Photos©: Koen Broos; Gadi Dagon; Darryl Ferrucci; LBer; Wim Vandekeybus; Evi Filahtoy; Guy Kokken; Chris Van der Burght; GregoryMaqomaBeaut; Hofesh Shechter; Octavio Iturbe; John Hogg; Sankai Juku; Riccardo Saviano; Dirk Korell; and Herman Sorgeloos.
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Festival Events:

Program 2008:

• Friday, July 18, Venue—Polykladikon Lyceum Gym, 20:00
  
  • VUYANI DANCE THEATRE
    Gregory Maqoma, performing “Beautiful Me”
    With the support of Culturesfrance
• Friday, July 18, Venue—Kalamata Castle Amphitheatre, 22:00
  
  • HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY
    Hofesh Shechter, performing “Uprising / In your rooms”
• Saturday July 19, Venue—Polykladikon Lyceum Gym, 20:00
  
  • VUYANI DANCE THEATRE
    Gregory Maqoma, performing “Beautiful Me”
    With the support of Culturesfrance
• Saturday, July 19, Venue—Kalamata Municipal Regional Theatre, 22:00
  
  • VERA MANTERO & GUESTS
    Vera Mantero & Guests, performing “Until the moment when God is destroyed by the extreme exercise of beauty”
• Sunday, July 20, Venue—Kalamata Municipal Cultural Centre, 20:00
  
  • JONATHAN BURROWS & MATTEO FARGION
    Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, perform “Both Sitting Duet”
• Sunday, July 20, Venue—Kalamata Castle Amphitheatre, 22:00
  
  • VIA KATLEHONG DANCE
    IMBIZO e MAZWENI (meeting out of the country…)
    Christian Rizzo, performs “toutes sortes de déserts”
    Robyn Orlin, performs “Still life with homeless heaven and urban wounds… (even bananas have bones)”
• Monday, July 21, Venue—Kalamata Municipal Regional Theatre, 20:00
  
  • VERA MANTERO & GUESTS
    Vera Mantero & Guests, perform “Until the moment when God is destroyed by the extreme exercise of beauty”
• Monday, July 21, Venue—Kalamata Castle Amphitheatre, 22:00
  
  • VIA KATLEHONG DANCE
    IMBIZO e MAZWENI (meeting out of the country…)
    Christian Rizzo, performs “toutes sortes de déserts”
    Robyn Orlin, performs “Still life with homeless heaven and urban wounds… (even bananas have bones)”
• Tuesday, July 22, Venue—Kalamata Municipal Cultural Centre, 21:00
  
  • JONATHAN BURROWS & MATTEO FARGION
    Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, perform “Both Sitting Duet”
• Wednesday, July 23, Venue—Polykladikon Lyceum Gym, 22:00
  
  • QUASI STELLAR
    Apostolia Papadamaki, performs “Electric Girl”
• Thursday, July 24, Venue—Kalamata Castle Amphitheatre, 22:00
  
  • STORM & DISCIPULOS DO RITMO
    Niels “Storm” Robitzky, performs “Geometronomics”
• Friday, July 25, Venue—Polykladikon Lyceum Gym, 20:00
  
  • PERE FAURA
    Pere Faura, performs “This is the picture of a person I don’t know”
    With the support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Athens and the sponsorship of the Hellenic-Dutch Association (He.D.A.)
• Friday, July 25, Venue—Kalamata Castle Amphitheatre, 22:00
  
  • STORM & DISCIPULOS DO RITMO
    Niels “Storm” Robitzky, performs “Geometronomics”
• Saturday, July 26, Venue—Kalamata Municipal Cultural Centre, 22:00
  
  • Co-production of Dutch and Greek artists and theoreticians, perform “StripteaSeS”
    Commissioned by the Kalamata International Dance Festival
    With the support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Athens and the sponsorship of the Hellenic-Dutch Association (He.D.A.)
• Sunday, July 27, Venue—Polykladikon Lyceum Gym, 20:00
  
  • PERE FAURA
    Pere Faura, performs “This is the picture of a person I don’t know”
    With the support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Athens and the sponsorship of the Hellenic-Dutch Association (He.D.A.)
• Sunday, July 27, Venue—Kalamata Castle Amphitheatre, 22:00
  
  • SANKAI JUKU
    Ushio Amagatsu, performs “Utsushi”

Dance Workshop 2008:

• The Kalamata International Dance Centre is organising a Contemporary Dance workshop led by Iñaki Azpillaga
  Inaki Azpillaga was born in Spain, where Basque folk dance was his first approach to dance. He began ballet studies and soon after he discovered other disciplines such as Jazz, Modern & Contemporary dance, and mime. In addtion, he studied composition, improvisation and lighting design at Nikolais/Louis school in New York. During his professional career as a dancer, he took part in operas, theatre pieces, installations indoor and outdoors, and small dance productions. He worked with the National Ballet Company of Spain and with choreographers such as Mathilde Monnier, Marga Guergue, Blanca Calvo & La Ribot. Azpillaga won the first prize in the VI Choreographic Contest of Madrid, creating thus his own production “Diálogo de sordos” (Deaf Dialogues) with its premier in Madrid. After a meeting with Wim Vandekeybus, he decided to go to Brussels to work with him in the creations “Mountains made of barking”, ”Alle grossen decken sich zu”, “Bereft of a blissful union” and in the revivals “Her body doesn’t fit her soul”, and “What the body does not remember”. Since 1997, he has been working as assistant and repetitor to Mr. Vandekeybus in regular bases, currently assisting the last creation MENSKE (2007). He teaches workshops and gives dance lessons to professionals all around Europe (ImPulsTanz Wien, PARTS, SEAD, HJS , TQW , Mulhouse, Lier HID) and to companies in Brussels: Ultima Vez, Need Co, Charleroi/Danses, Damaged Goods.
• Participants will be able to attend the festival performances with a reduced ticket.
• Information—
  
  • FEE: €240 (The fee will be settled in full on the starting day of the workshop)
  • REGISTRATION: €100. Registration deadline is June 20, 2008
    The registration will be deducted from the fee and will be not be refundable after June 30, 2008)
• For registration please call
  
  • Erifili Efremidou at +30210 7751731, or +306973034771, or send an email mail@kalamatadancefestival.gr

Practical Info:

Tickets 2008:

• To buy
  
  • Ticket purchase begins on June 25, 2008 from 10:00am-1:00pm & 6:00pm-9:00pm (10:00-13:00 & 18:00-21:00), Sundays excluded
  • Ticket information and reservations via credit cards (VISA & MASTERCARD)
    Phone: +30 27210 99026 & 99028
    Fax: 27210 99045
• Prices
  
  • 23,00 € & 15,00 € (students, workshop participants and Castle Amphitheatre zone b)
  • For the performances of the following companies: HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY, VERA MANTERO & GUESTS, VIA KATLEHONG DANCE, STORM & DISCIPULOS DO RITMO, SANKAI JUKU
    20,00 € & 15 ,00 € (students, workshop participants) For the performances of the following companies: VUYANI DANCE THEATRE, JONATHAN BURROWS & MATTEO FARGION, QUASI STELLAR / A. PAPADAMAKI, PERE FAURA

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