The current program of the Kalamata International Dance Festival

The program continues today with Thi-Mai Nguyen and the performance "Etna" at 8pm in the workshop of Megaron and the "Anonymous" group Amorphy / Tzeni Argyriou at 22h

A About the project: After a world tour, Ti-Mai Envoygen's "Etna" solo is presented at the 24th Festival of mature and sophisticated Kalamata Dance. Thi-Mai, with her particular small body and unimaginable dancing skills, is a multi-talented woman. Dance, sing and play, create a hearty performance. She plays Etna, a young homeless person, immersed in her madness, with a tape recorder in her hand. We hear, through the tape recorder, the sounds of his past life to warm his body and his memory. Etna dances to exorcise her evil destiny in order to keep alive the spark of life. She dances through persistence, size, desire to feel, to exist and to love. Contrary to what is expected, the homeless are the survivors of a terribly cruel and unpleasant reality. They disappear behind a veil of loneliness, wandering like shadows in the heart of our cities. Their enigmatic presence, constantly moving to the brink of death, seems to shift the stakes of the existence of action and success to the survival of the Self. (Tuesday, July 17, 8 pm, Kalamata Dance Hall Studio)

– Amorphy / Tzeni Argyriou "Anonymous". "Anonymous" attempts to capture the course of the social subject since the artistic act was a stepping stone for human badociation and collective formation in the modern digital era, where anonymity, privacy and teamwork are mutated as pieces of a paradoxical and fragmented reality. How does sharing in the virtual space affect closeness and contact in the physical space?

What are the elements that, over the centuries, spontaneously bring people together? Can dancing today be a means of collective empowerment? Can we share a common space? What happens when the music stops? Tzeni Argyriou listening to the concepts of physical memory, fundamental human contact, group cohesion and strong pressure on the roots and rituals of initiation and participation, proposes a language of modern kinesiology. It is therefore tempting to plan a trip that will clamp down on the digital and physical universe in search of a present space. (Tuesday, July 17, 22:00, Central Scene of the Kalamata Dance)

– Also today in the Central Square Athanasios Kanellopoulos, with 99 "angles of a possible self", sketches 99 aspects, 99 moments of a hero, through whose likelihood of self-identification, following dark paths, ends up turning into certainty. The show is organized in collaboration with the Kalamata Conservatory and the participation of Nikos Palaiologos (strings) and Giorgos Kladi (percussion). (Tuesday, July 17th).

THE FIRST PERFORMANCE

– The 24th edition of the Kalamata International Dance Festival was the most dynamic, welcoming the subversive Olivier de Sagazan in the workshop of the Megaron Dance, for the first show, the first day, Friday. It is characteristic that the show was complete and that another was added on Friday, which was also full of people. How does Sagazan not care about Sagazan when he uses his body as a palette of his own creation as a mold for his strange sculptures?

The artist made a tour on stage, mocking when the audience took the seats of his. The ceremony of creation had already begun, its murmurs echoing the psalms. The ritual elements of Sagazan, a sorcerer, were given in his work "Transfiguration" as he introduced the viewer with himself. A Pygmalon, who talks about the play, talks to the audience, puts his mouth and eyes on what he's doing and supports it with key words. However, it is very long. His key word is depersonalization, deconstruction, which inevitably leads to re-synthesis. The agony is obvious, the interrogations torture him, he is not satisfied, he purifies, with the ashes and water "sanctified" his altar, and then again from the beginning. "Honeysuit" and the clay changes shape, from one person to the other, from one bird to another, from a pig to l? other. A "chuck" is the distance for each, so that the tie is instantly transformed into a leash, into a bad. The theme of this year's festival is clearly studied by Sagazan, examining the limits of his endurance, breathing. This breath could not give life to the creation at least a long time.

Creation, whatever happens, is the nature of the world, no matter if our people do not always satisfy the result. . Sagazan's work, an exquisite work of what we expected as the choices of the new artistic director Linda Capetanea, gave the audience a grotesque show, with painful sounds and moments of intense reflection on the autistic elements we all have in US. After clear religious references, given at key moments of the show, the subject remained stripped of effort, as a suffering organism to create. The public reception at the end of the show was memorable. Perhaps the most enthusiastic reaction we have seen in recent years in the CDSF

– In a completely different style, the first of the first "Freefall" of "Compania Sharon Fridman" took place a little later in 22h. Friday night. What gained the impressions, from beginning to end, was the particularly special atmosphere, with lighting and shades creating an almost dreamy landscape for the crowded dance group. The beginning, as well as the end, were powerful and busy moments, with the dancers all running around and helping to reach a peak of anxiety. The choreographers presented them as other statues, protagonists of the frescoes of the Renaissance, to "get in touch" in the body of the other, in an absolute support and harmony. The music and these points were aimed at the emotion of the viewer, causing emotion. This was "interrupted" when the moment of the fall, the precipitation, the alternations, the turbulence came. Key theme of the show, the fall, the transition from childhood to reality, from one moment / one dimension to the other. Its consequences. Indeed, as we learned the emblem of Casovici "Hate", "not the fall, but the impact" …

– The project "Breathe!" From the Circoncentric Cie team gave another air this year Festivals With a totally uncompromising backdrop, with some lights and a few rubber balls, the two protagonists began with a glove when rhythmically nasty, as if they were looking for their place on the stage. The show has live musical background by a pianist who made … episodic entry! You do not have to say a lot of words to describe the magic of this job. They do not even need suggestions. As the viewer looks at it, the words come out of themselves …. dancing in his mind: humor, optimism, circularity, self-sarcosis, balance, extremes, alternation, breath, complement, synchronization, light, world , imagination. All this given to a very happy, funny and moving effect, not only excited, has shown to delight the audience. In the end, the children who enjoyed the show applauded, as did the adults, who once again felt children. The frightening abilities of the dancers, their incredible acrobatic movements, were totally in the theme of this year's Festival, but with a very positive view. "There is no limit to what we want and can – everything is about people and we are all part of this strange but beautiful world …"

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