YOUNG CHOREOGRAPHERS
10,000 LITRES / EVANGELIA KOLYRA & ME ON TOP / ARTEMIS LAMPIRI

 

Kalamata Dance Megaron – Studio
Saturday 16.7.2016 / 19:00

YOUNG CHOREOGRAPHERS
10,000 Litres & Me On Top

The Kalamata International Dance Festival presents a selection of young artists’s work from the Onassis Cultural Centre Young Choreographers Festival, organised since 2014 under artistic director Katia Arfara (artistic director of Theatre and Dance, Onassis Cultural Centre).
A collaboration of the Kalamata International Dance Festival and the Onassis Cultural Centre

EVANGELIA KOLYRA
10,000 litres

Concept & Choreography: Evangelia Kolyra
Devised with Performers: Justyna Janiszewska, Joss Carter, Victoria Hoyland (substituted for the performance at Kalamata International Dance Festival by Will Thompson and Evangelia Kolyra)
Stage & Costume Design: Sisters From Another Mister
Lighting Design: Sherry Coenen
Producer: Xavier de Sousa
Performance Photos: Fotini Christofilopoulou

Commissioned by The Place

With the support of Arts Council England, Dance4, Citymoves and Chelsea Theatre

Tour supported by The Onassis Cultural Centre

A show that begins with breathing. Based on this vital human function, this choreography creates peculiar, bizarre and humorous images and situations through physical exploration. Three performers combine movement, word, sound and music to create a sensory experience that deals with freedom, power and human existence.

The title, 10,000 litres, refers to the quantity of air that goes through our bodies every day, bringing into the spotlight the human element as the shared origin of all of us and the focus of our emotional and interpersonal relations.

The choreographer and dancer Evangelia Kolyra lives and works in London. Her work offers viewers a rich kinesthetic experience of unexpected, funny and sometimes malicious aspects of human psychology through detailed and physically demanding choreography. Her pieces have been performed in theatres and festivals across Europe (England, Scotland, Greece, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands).

Duration: 40′

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ARTEMIS LAMPIRI
Me On Top

Choreography: Artemis Lampiri
Original Music: Alexandros Karadimos, Dimitris Tassainas
Lighting Design: Michalis Kloukinas
Costume Design: Dimitra Liakoura
Performers: Kandy Karra, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Konstantinos Rizos, Ioanna Toumbakari, Achilleas Chariskos
Photos: Stavros Petropoulos
Promo Video / Trailer: Stavros Symeonides
Premiered at the Onassis Cultural Centre’s Young Choreographers Festival 14/2/2015
Co-Production: Onassis Cultural Centre and ΜΑΝ dance company

                      Supported by NEON Foundation

Tour supported by The Onassis Cultural Centre

How do people manage power when it is taken for granted? Does a mother always act in the best interests of her child, or in her own best interests, too? Does a prime minister always act for the good of the country, or for personal gain? Does friendship outlive a love affair, or does it become competitive? When does it all begin? How do we internalise power, and what impact does it have on our lives?

Me On Top is a dance performance about power relationships in our daily lives in five overlapping chapters. Emphasising the distinct movement identity of each role, the piece outlines five stories without resorting to narrative. Five people, five places in space, or five moments in a lifetime are conjured by movement and tell their stories. A performance that shows, rather than says, that we all exercise power.

The young choreographer Artemis Lampiri has made an impact on the Greek dance scene in recent years. A graduate of Rallou Manou Professional Dance School, she went on to study Choreography at ArtEZ (Netherlands) on a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation; she also studied Theatre at the University of Utrecht.
Her choreographies have been performed and awarded at festivals and theatres in Greece, Germany, Croatia, the Netherlands and Spain.
Her work is characterised by intense physicality, purity of form and an idiosyncratic writing focusing on movement and the body as an image.

Duration: 60′

 

GREEK NATIONAL OPERA BALLET / LINKS / ΑNDONIS FONIADAKIS

 

Kalamata Dance Megaron – Main Hall
Friday 15.7.2016 & Saturday 16.07.2016 / 22:00

GREEK NATIONAL OPERA BALLET
Links
ANDONIS FONIADAKIS
In three parts / Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Handel, Julien Tarride

Choreography: Andonis Foniadakis – APOTOSOMA
Stage Design: Andonis Foniadakis – APOTOSOMA & Sakis Birbilis
Costume Design: Tassos Sofroniou
Light Design: Sakis Birbilis
Sound Design: Julien Tarride

Selon Désir

Women
Maria Kousouni, Eleana Andreoudi, Popi Sakellaropoulou, Anna Fragou, Magda Koukou-Ferra, Magda Lagoyanni, Zoi Schinoplokaki, Vicky Tsiroyanni, Ariadni Filippaki

Men
Vangelis Bikos, Stelios Katopodis, Yannis Benetos, Michalis Pappas, Micheal Doolan, Nikos Moschis, Elton Dimrochi, Thanassis Solomos, Taulant-Dimitris Ferra

Intermission 20΄

Air

Women
Maria Kousouni, Eleana Andreoudi, Popi Sakellaropoulou, Anna Fragou, Olga Zourbina, Magda Koukou-Ferra, Margarita Kostoglou, Ariadni Filippaki

Men
Vangelis Bikos, Stelios Katopodis, Yannis Benetos, Micheal Doolan, Elton Dimrochi, Thanassis Solomos

Intermission 15΄

Links

Women
Maria Kousouni, Eleana Andreoudi, Vanessa Kourkoulou, Dimitra Laoudi, Christina Makridou, Popi Sakellaropoulou, Anna Fragou, Olga Zourbina, Komi Kloukina, Magda Koukou-Ferra, Magda Lagoyanni, Zoi Schinoplokaki, Vicky Tsiroyanni, Ariadni Filippaki, Angeliki Vrahlioti, Paraskevi Oikonomou, Anastasia Pattelaki, Maria-Eleni Tsoni

Men
Danilo Zeka, Vangelis Bikos, Agapios Agapiadis, Andon Koruti, Stelios Katopodis, Yannis Benetos, Micheal Doolan, Michalis Pappas, Nikos Moschis, Elton Dimrochi, Thanassis Solomos, Taulant-Dimitris Ferra, Yiannis Lavner, Pavlos Maratos

Duration:

Selon Désir 22΄

Air 18΄

Links 30΄

Signed by the great Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis, the impressive production Links by the Greek National Opera Ballet opens the 22nd Kalamata International Dance Festival. The performance is taking place in the Main Hall of the Kalamata Dance Megaron on 15 and 16 July (starting at 22:00).
The internationally acclaimed new director of the Greek National Opera Ballet has dedicated his latest choreography to Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel, the two leading composers of the Baroque era who, although born in nearby cities in the same year – 1685 – never met during their lifetime. In fusing their music with choreography, Foniadakis sought to evoke a landscape where the imaginary, the subconscious and the mystical elements come into play with raw realism, creating a cross-genre habitat for the encounter of the two great music composers.
The performance consists of three parts, Selon Désir, which Foniadakis first presented at the Geneva Ballet, Air and Links, choreographed especially for the Greek National Opera Ballet.
The stark stage set, jointly designed by Foniadakis and Sakis Birbilis, who also designed the lighting, the costumes by Tasos Sofroniou and the sound environment produced by Julien Tarride, all contribute to the overall quality of the show.

Andonis Foniadakis was born and raised in Ierapetra, Crete. He began his training under Niki Papadaki, went on to study at the Greek State School of Dance (1990–1992) and, as an undergraduate, received a Maria Callas scholarship to pursue further studies at the Rudra Béjart School in Lausanne, until 1994. As a performing artist he has worked with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne (1994–1996) under Maurice Béjart, the Ballet of the Opera of Lyon (1996–2002) under George Loukos, and with Saburo Teshigawara / Karas Co. (2004) under Saburo Teshigawara (2004), as well as with his own dance company, Apotosoma. As a choreographer he has worked with prominent international dance companies: the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Aterballetto (National Institute of Dance, Reggio Emilia, Italy), Ballet Lucerne, Martha Graham Dance Group, Geneva Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Bern Ballet, the Ballet of the Opéra National du Rhin, the Washington Ballet, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, the International Dance Academy Copenhagen. He has choreographed opera productions: Castor and Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris), Les Boréades by Jean-Philippe Rameau (Opéra National du Rhin) and Claudio Ambrosini’s The Song of the Skin (GRAME, Centre National de Création Musicale, Lyon). In 2012, he received the Danza & Danza Italian award for Best Choreographer for his choreography Marriages for MaggioDanza (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino). In 2003, he established Apotosoma dance company in Lyon. The group has made seven productions: Sensitive Screens Skins Intervals, USE, Rite of Spring, All Things Are Quite Silent, Romeo and Juliet, Wisteria Maiden, Priority. Andonis Foniadakis has been appointed new director of the Greek National Opera Ballet. He will assume his position on 1st September 2016.

Bus line 1 (Kalamata-Beach/ Beach-Kalamata)
16/7/2016

transitions

Curated by: M. Eugenia Demeglio, Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris
"transitions is a series of performance interventions occurring on the local bus-line no. 1 (route: Kalamata-Paralia).

Performers mingle with passengers in a very specific part of the public space, the bus, transforming an everyday-life setting into pleasantly unfamiliar situations. Passengers are invited to experience these surprising shifts of reality, a kaleidoscope of oneiric fugues from the daily routine.

During transitions anything could happen, a "normal" bus ride from and to the beach could become a jazz concert or a dance performance.”

With kind support and participation of the Kalamata Municipal Conservatory