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3rd Kalamata Dance Festival 1997

18 July - 4 August 1997

Artistic Director: Victoria Marangopoulou

Main program

PERFORMANCES

  • Bouvier / Obadia (Greek premiere)
  • Edafos Dance Theatre (Kalamata International Dance Centre production)
  • Arakne Mediterranea (Greek premiere)
  • Haris Mandafounis Contemporary Dance Company (co-production with Kalamata International Dance Centre)
  • Greek Dance Solos: Persa Stamatopoulou / Natassa Avra / Machi Dimitriadou / Lindahl / Apostolia Papadamaki
  • Classical Ballet Stars
  • Trisha Brown Dance Company (Greek premiere)
  • El Farruco y su Compañía (Greek premiere)

SIDE EVENTS

  • Photo exhibition Nelly’s: Body and Dance
  • Homage to Manos Hadjdakis (Dora Bakopoulou, Andreas Karakotas)
  • Art Games / Shadow Plays
  • Seistron Ensemble 

WORKSHOP

  • Contemporary dance and contact improvisation workshop led by Shelley Senter

MASTERCLASSES & LECTURES

  • Trisha Brown Dance Company
  • Joelle Bouvier
  • Regis Obadia
  • Arakne Mediterranea

VIDEO DANCE PRODUCTION

  • Video Record of the Photograph Exhibition Nelly’s – Body & Dance which included the choreography Monument by Dimitris Papaïoannou (directed by Takis Hatzopoulos – Cinetic) (1997)

PUBLICATION

  • Album Nelly’s – Body & Dance in collaboration with the Benaki Museum and by AGRA-AMMOS Publications (1997)