OFF-PROGRAMME EVENTS
92 parallel events (music, theatre, visual arts, photography, cinema)
19 publications
2 video productions
33 workshops led by internationally renowned dancers, dance teachers and choreographers
1st Festival 1995
- Camaleo (street theatre)
- Orchestra of Colours
- Recital of Russian Music
- Visual Steps
- Visual Art Workshops
- Jazz Quartet
- Aguto (street theatre)
- Orchestra of Colours
- Urban Art Group
- Photo exhibition Nelly’s: “Body and Dance”
- Homage to Manos Hadjdakis (Dora Bakopoulou, Andreas Karakotas)
- Art Games / Shadow Plays
- Seistron Ensemble
- Volos Symphony Orchestra
- Dimitris Sgouros Piano Recital
- Transdance: Programme for the Body and the New Technologies (in collaboration with the e-phos Festival of Film and New Media on Art)
- Photo exhibition by Natalia Doukoumetzidou “Dream Play”
- Video Dance (Trisha Brown & Philippe Decouflé)
- Concerts by the Jazz Band & the Percussion Quartet of Kalamata Municipal Conservatory
- Street shows by Irven Lewis Company
- Pandum (street theatre)
- Jazz Band of Kalamata Municipal Conservatory
- Cie Beau Geste / Dominique Boivin “Transports Exceptionnels”
- Encardia (music and dance from Southern Italy)
- Cinema: “The Navigator” by Buster Keaton accompanied by live music
- Think of One (music bus journey)
- The Waltzing Cats. A music concert by the Youth Orchestra and the Three Part Childern’s Choi of the Kalamata Municipal Conservatory
- Music event with Vuyani Dance Theatre Ensemble
- Silent Films with Live Music
- Hip-hop event: Discípulos Do Rítmo: Ta Limpo
- Screening: Le Jardin των Peeping Tom
- Screening: Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel
- Seaside Musical – An evening full of songs from musicals and other familiar tunes
- Forward Motion: ARTISTS' CHOICE in collaboration with the British Council. Projection of a collection of contemporary dance on screen (screen dance) from Britain
- [non ++] Public space performance by eekuipoiz
- Concert by The Freak Brothers Band
- Meet the Artist: conversation with Xavier Le Roy
16th Festival 2010
- Tour in the archeological site of Ancient Messense guided by Petros Themelis
- Piano recital by Dora Bakopoulou at the Ekklesiasterion of the Asklepieion in Ancient Messene
- Screening: tribute to Merce Cunningham
- Screening: tribute to Pina Bausch
- Lights on: photo exhibition by Alexandros Niago
- Video screenings of choreographic material by the dance companies participating in the "7 +1" workshop
- Video screenings: Wim Vandekeybus
- Meet the artists: Ivana Müller
- Storytelling with Lilly Triantari: ... And the wind whispered a handful of stories...
- Hip-Hop evening, Featuring the B-TWINS
- Dances for one piano, two pianists and four hands with the pianists Maria Papapetropoulou and Jacques Bernier
- Closing performance of the workshop "7 rehearsals + 1 performance", Featuring Amorphy, Lemurius, Dalika, Prosxima and Φora etc. dance companies and the workshop participants
- «Cette immense intimité» Compagnie Retouramont performance on the back side of Kalamata Dance Megaron
- «DOBEDOBEDO» Jam set with various artists, curated by amorphy & fingersix
- Pat Catterson Workshop Presentation
- Storytelling by Lilly Triantari
- Hip-Hop evening, Featuring the B-TWINS
- Video screenings: Philippe Decouflé
- Video screenings: Yvonne Rainer
19th Festival 2013
- Cie József Trefeli "JINX 103"
- Yannis Nikolaidis "L’après-midi d’un faune, 100+1 years later"
- Presentation of the dance research workshop playforKALAMATADANCEFESTIVAL
- Meet the artist: Lecture by Fabián Barba
- "What If" Workshop Performance
- "On the road" workshop performance
- Mythical Dances of Messenia Exhibition
- Screening of choreographic material by the companies participating in the choreography workshops
- Screenings from the archives of the Kalamata International Dance Festival to accompany the temporary exhibition "Mythical Dances of Messenia"
- On the road photography exhibition
- Evening of screenings and surprise event
- Screening Pina by Wim Wenders
- Public presentation/performance by the participants of the 360° choreography workshop
- Video art screenings from the archives of Festival Miden