DK-BEL / SOPHIE BULBULYAN
QUASI STELLAR / APOSTOLIA PAPADAMAKI
DROPS OF BREATH ///screening & discussion

 

Kalamata Dance Megaron – Studio
Wednesday 20.7.2016 / 12:30

DROPS OF BREATH

Screening of the film that captures the world’s first underwater dance performance, followed by a discussion with the audience

Concept / Choreography: Apostolia Papadamaki – Sophie Bulbulyan
Underwater Music: Tryfon Koutsourelis
Underwater Set & Costume Design: Giorgos Georgiou
Underwater Filming: Anastassis Agathos
Buoyancy Control Training: Tassos Papapanos
Diving trainers for Disabled Dancers: Luc Lakeman, Tassos Papapanos
Official Photographers and Videographers: Alexandros Anagnostopoulos / Picme.gr, Luc Lakeman

Production Manager: Manolis Sardis

Co-produced with Lia Charaki / Pelma

Underwater choreography duration: 35΄

Performers (in alphabetical order): Dimitra Antonaki, Sophie Bulbulyan, Jules Bulbulyan, Souad Daoudi, Eleni Diamanti, Irene Kourouvani, Thierry Maboang, Aristoteles Marinopoulos, Nefeli Boskoiti, Apostolia Papadamaki,Tassos Papapanos, Christina Patsali, Michée Quenum, Dimitra Zvingou, Antonis Strouzas

On 25-27 September 2015 at Cape Sounion, the choreographers Sophie Bulbulyan (France) and Apostolia Papadamaki (Greece), in co-production with Lia Charaki (Cyprus), featuring performers from ten countries, staged the world’s first underwater dance-visual performance. A total of 14 disabled and non-disabled dancers from France, Greece and Cyprus, including three children aged 10-14, performed the underwater choreography Drops of Breath. The performance was captured on camera during 14 days of underwater filming. The original music by Tryfon Koutsourelis is riveting, and the underwater set and costumes designed by Giorgos Georgiou conjure a unique visual landscape.

The underwater performance Drops of Breath is part of the innovative project The Underwater Heart of the Mediterranean, selected by the EU Directorate-General for Education and Culture’s Creative Europe (Horizon 2020) programme for the January 2015–February 2016 period.

AT THE END OF THE DIVING BOARD / AMALGAMA DANCE COMPANY – MARIA GORGIA

Kalamata Dance Megaron – Studio
Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20.7.2016 / 20:00

AMALGAMA DANCE COMPANY – MARIA GORGIA
At the Edge of the Springboard

Direction-Choreography-Scenography: Maria Gorgia
Performance: Sania Stribakou
Man: Timos Zehas
Text: Samuel Beckett, Heiner Müller, Maria Gorgia, Sania Stribakou, Kostis Stafylakis
Sound Editing: Giannis Misouridis, Maria Gorgia
Choreographer’s Assistant: Myrto Delimichali
Photography: Angela Svoronou, Giannis Misouridis
Production: Amalgama Dance Company

«Surrounded by a stark space that transforms in turn into a house, a catwalk, a Japanese bath, sometimes something akin to a stage set for a play by Beckett, a woman swims among her – mostly self-inflicted – misconceptions, contradictions, indecisions and deadlocks.
It is a woman of our times, suspended between intense questions and fears, but at the same time this is a very personal work. My own crisis is primarily existential, yet also social, economic, political, a crisis of values and aging.» 
Maria Gorgia

Established by Maria Gorgia in London in 1996, Amalgama is credited with 20 choreographies and 18 productions in the United States and Europe, international festivals

The performance contains interaction with the audience., including the Hellenic Festival and Teatri di Vita, as well as performances in non-traditional venues. In recent years, the group has been exploring issues of identity, history and gender in a distinctive critique of the contemporary condition, placing a strong emphasis on the performers’ own creative contributions.

Duration: 75΄

CELLO IN MY LIFE / INDIRA RAHMATULLA / CELLO RECITAL AND DANCE IMPROVISATION

 

Kalamata Municipal Cultural Centre
Wednesday 20.7.2016 / 22:00

Cello In My Life
Indira Rahmatulla
Cello recital and dance improvisation

J.S. Bach: Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 G-Dur, BWV 1007 // 15 Min.
György Ligeti: Sonata for Solo Cello // 9 Min.
Henri Dutilleux: 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher // 9 Min.
Ahmed Adnan Saygun: Partita for Solo Cello, op. 31 // 10 Min.

Performers who participate in Bach’s Cello Suite improvisation:
Stavroula Gonou (Prélude) | Nafsika Peppa-Triantari (Allemande)
Naya Grammatikopoulou (Courante) | Vassia Anagnostopoulou, Stavroula Gonou, Nafsika Peppa-Triantari (Sarabande)
Vassia Anagnostopoulou (Menuett I-II) | Group improvisation (Gigue)
Co-ordination: Lilly Triantari

The award-winning cellist Indira Rahmatulla from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, who has won the hearts of audiences around the world , is giving a cello recital in Kalamata. The selection variety and diversity of style of the musical programme highlights the wide range of the cellist’s sensitivity and her musical virtuosity in a dialogue with dance.
Written in 1715, Bach’s Suite for Unaccompanied Cello No. 1 is based around five popular dances of central Europe. The dance improvisation is performed by professional dancers who began their studies at the Kalamata Municipal Dance School: Stavroula Gonou, Nafsika Peppa-Triantari, Naya Grammatikopoulou, and Vassia Anagnostopoulou.

Indira Rahmatulla

Born in 1988 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to a family of musicians, Indira Rahmatulla began her cello lessons with her parents. She has completed her Bachelor Studies at The Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles with Ronald Leonard and continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Jean-Guihen Queyras. In addition Indira has completed a chamber music degree at the Instituto Internacional de Musica de Camara de Madrid with Ralf Gothoni as part of piano trio Trio Areti. In addition, she has participated in master classes with Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Rados, Natalia Gutman and many more.

Indira has won numerous prizes in prestigious international competitions, including Second Prize at the 2006 Aram Khachaturian International Cello Competition in Armenia, First Prize in 2006 Schlern International Music Competition in Italy, Third Prize in 2006 Luis Sigall International Cello Competition in Chile et.al.
Since 2013 Indira has a fellowship at the Villa Musica Rheinland- Pfalz Foundation where she has performed with world-renowned musicians such as Vadim Gluzman, Sergio Azzolini, Boris Garlitsky and Alexander Melnikov among others.

Indira Rahmatulla has participated in music festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan and many others, where she performed under the baton of conductors including Cristoph Eschenbach, Ivan Fischer, Zlotan Kocisz, Thomas Hengelbrock, Fabio Luisi, et.al.

Indira has been collaborating with Ensembles such as Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg and The Zurich Opera. Since 2015 Indira is a member of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.

Vassia Anagnostopoulou

She was born in Kalamata in 1989 and started dance classes at the age of 6 at the Municipal Dance School of Kalamata. She studied at the State Dance School of Athens and at the Professional Dance School of “Rallou Manou”. She attended the 200 hours educational program for the Hatha Anusara Yoga diploma, as well as contemporary dance workshops with David Zambrano, Frey Faust, Inaki Aspillaga, Ermis Malkotsis etc. Since 2012 she has been teaching dance to children and adults.

Stavroula Gonou

She was born in 1989 in Athens and grew up in Kalamata, where she attended ballet and contemporary dance classes at the Municipal Dance School. From 2008 to 2011 she studied at the professional dance school of Despoina Grigoriadou. Until today she has attended several contemporary and classical dance workshops at “Varna” International Dance Academy, a “Vaganova” theory workshop for classical dance teachers and a “Music and Movement Training” workshop for children. She took part at the 9th and 10th Greek choreographers Dance Festival. The year 2011-2012 she taught classical and contemporary dance at the dance school of Zakinthos. Since 2012, she is a member of the educational staff of PHARIS (enterprise of public benefit of Kalamata).

Naya Grammatikopoulou

She was born in Athens at 26/4/1990 and grew up in Kalamata. She studied at the Municipal Dance School of Kalamata, attending ballet and contemporary dance classes until 2008. From 2008 to 2011 she studied at the professional dance school of “Rallou Manou”, while at the same time she was studying Faculty of Early Childhood Education at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, from which she graduated at 2015. She has attended several contemporary dance workshops and took part in the Greek choreographers Dance Festival of 2010. Today she works as a ballet and contemporary dance teacher, as well as an educator in Kalamata.

Nafsika Peppa-Triantari

She was born in Athens in 1986 and grew up in Kalamata, where she started dancing at the Municipal Dance School of the city. She graduated from the State Dance School of Dance and continued her studies at “De Theaterschool” of Amsterdam. She has collaborated as a dancer and as a choreographer, at dance and theatre performances in Greece and abroad. Since 2007 she has been teaching contemporary dance to children, teenagers and adults. Since 2014 she continues all her activities in Kalamata.

Lilly Triantari

She was born in Athens in 1965. She studied dance at the Laban Center for Movement and Dance in London and at the State Dance School of Athens, from which she graduated. From 1989 to 2007 she was a dance teacher at the Municipal Dance School of Kalamata, while the last eight years she has been occupied with the narration of folktales and all these years has been collaborating with the city’s children’s creative expression laboratory, “Window to the Sun”.