CREO DANCE COMPANY
APOGEE by Polina Kremasta

19.07.2017
KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON - STUDIO | 20:00

• Duration 40'

apogee
POLINA KREMASTA
CREO DANCE COMPANY

Choreography Polina Kremasta
Live Music Manousos Klapakis (bendir), Dimitris Brendas (gaida, clarinet, kaval)
Lighting Pantelis Mantzanas
Costumes Christina Lardikou
Greek Dances Consultant, Choreographer Assistant Menelaos Kotsos
Research Advisor Nansy Charmanda
Production Advisor Orestis Tatsis

Dancers Polina Kremasta, Thenia Antoniadou

Under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Sports

Production Reon (Nonprofit artistic company)

142, Em. Βenaki St, 11473 Athens

Special thanks to
Collaborative Studio/Wrong Movement
Duncan Dance Research Center Athens

 

“Rallou Manou” Professional Dance School

Baobap Lab of Arts

apogee The dancers wander around six “landscapes” of newborn dances and sweep space and rhythm with their movement patterns. The musicians complete the movement and the dance narrative by choosing either to deconstruct or to reconstruct traditional sounds, re-naming each sound image.
In order to keep alive something of the past and not merely wander a corpse, we have to rethink, to reconsider and redefine our relationship with it...

Polina Kremasta She was born in Thessaloniki. She graduated with honors from the Professional Dance School of Rallou Manou. She is also a graduate of Medicine Studies (University of Ioannina). She is currently a dancer and choreographer for the Creo dance company, with several participations in local and International dance festivals The last five years she is coordinating, in collaboration with P. Iliaskou, “Skytali” (Relay), an educational program for dancers and public schools, instilling the love for movement into the community. The last three years she is working on two research projects, one about the connection between the contemporary and traditional dance and another based on the production and the manipulation of sound along with the dancer and musician Giorgos Amentas. She teaches contemporary dance and improvisation at the Professional Dance School “Rallou Manou”.

Creo Dance Company Creo is a contemporary dance company based in Athens, Greece and a member of the Association of Greek Choreographers since 2010. Created in 2008, part of the Reon Nonprofit artistic company, is now under the care of the choreographer Polina Kremasta. Since 2008 Creo has presented six dance performances, with participations in Greek and International Dance Festivals, granted a First Prize at the Sarajevo International Festival 2012. The company has organized workshops and educational programs and also projects in public places.
creodancecompany.wordpress.com/

Screening:
Mr. Gaga by Tomer Heymann

KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON - FORECOURT
19 & 23.07.2017 / 22:00

• Duration100'

Israel, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands 2015
In English and Hebrew with Greek subtitles

Director Tomer Heymann
Producer Barak Heymann
Executive Producer Diana Holtzberg
Cinematographer Itai Raziel
Editors Alon Greenberg, Ido Mochrik, Ron Omer
Sound Designer Alex Claude
Music Ishai Adar

 

With the support of the Embassy of Israel in Greece

Tomer Heymann’s film Mr. Gaga tells the story of Ohad Naharin. Meeting him at a critical turning point in his personal life, this spirited and insightful documentary will introduce you to a man with great artistic integrity and an extraordinary vision. Filmed over a period of eight years, director Tomer Heymann mixes intimate rehearsal footage with an extensive unseen archive and breathtaking dance sequences. This is the narrative of the renowned choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, an artistic genius who redefined the language of modern dance.
Naharin developed the Gaga movement language over the course of the last several years. There is no main concept of Gaga. Rather than a technique or a vocabulary, it is a philosophy of how to use one’s body; a toolbox that a dancer can use with any movement technique. Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body.

Ohad Naharin has become one of the most important living choreographers. A former student of Martha Graham, since 1990 Ohad Naharin has been artistic director of the Israeli Batsheva dance company. He has received countless awards, including the “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” from the French government, and a Doctor of Honors in Dance from Juilliard among others, for his impressive achievements in dance.

Tomer Heymann was born in Israel in 1970. He has directed many documentary films and series, most of them long-term follow-ups and personal documentations. His films won major awards at different prestigious film festivals

Gaga
Dance Workshop with Andrea Costanzo Martini

19.07.2017
| ΖΟUΜBΟULΕΙΟ MEGARON | 12:00-13:30

20 - 22.07.2017
| ΖΟUΜBΟULΕΙΟ MEGARON | 10:00-11:30

Gaga
Dance Workshop with Andrea Costanzo Martini

Gaga is a movement language developed by Ohad Naharin over the course of many years and which is applied in daily practice and exercises by the Batsheva Dance Company members.
The language of Gaga originated from the belief in the healing, dynamic, ever-changing power of movement continues to evolve today. Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through our body. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening our body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations, and offers ways for their elimination.
The work combines conscious and unconscious movement, and it allows an individual to experience freedom and pleasure in a simple way, in a pleasant space, in comfortable clothes, accompanied by music, so that each one can be connected to himself and to others.

Open to professional dancers, graduates and students.

Andrea Costanzo Martini was born in Italy where he received his first education in contemporary dance and ballet. After a few years in Germany where he danced with the Aalto Theater Essen, he moved to Tel Aviv to join the Batsheva Young Ensemble and later the Batsheva Dance Company. Between 2010 and 2014 he danced with the Cullberg Ballet and the Inbal Pinto & A. Pollak Dance Company. Since 2013 he has been creating and performing his own works. He received the first prize for Dance and Choreography at the International Solo Tanz Competition in Stuttgart (2013) and was awarded several prizes for his two solo works What Happened in Torino and Occhio di bue. Andrea’s research in dance focuses in both extreme physicality and theatricality of the performance act and explores the power balance created during a show between the dancers and the spectators. Always filled with humor and supported by a wide range of skills, Martini’s work questions and plays with the expectations of the dance medium. Trained in both ballet and contemporary technique, since 2007 Andrea is also a Gaga instructor and leads dance workshops around the globe.

19 & 23.7 Kalamata Dance Megaron - Forecourt (22:00) Screening of Tomer Heymann’s Mr. Gaga,
a documentary on Ohad Naharin.

Participation fee: 60 €
Down payment: 20 €
Registration & Information: Νatassa Aretha
+30 6934 164 243
mail @ kalamatadancefestival.gr

The Revolutionary Dances of Isadora Duncan
Dance Seminar by Barbara Kane with Françoise Rageau and Sandra Voulgari 

14.07.2017
| MESSENIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM | 10:00-12:00 (seminar)
Kalamata Castle | 19:30-21:00 (seminar)

15-18.07.2017
| MESSENIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM | 10:00-12:00 (seminar)
Zoumpouleio Megaron | 17:00-19:00 (seminar)

19.07.2017
| MESSENIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM | 9:30-11:30 (seminar) 
Kalamata Castle | 19:30-21:30 (seminar)

20.7 Κalamata Castle (21:00) Public Presentation of B. Kane’s Evening Seminar.
21.7 Archaeological Museum of Messenia, Kalamata, The Museum is dancing,
Touring-Presentation of B. Kane’s Day Seminar.

The Revolutionary Dances of Isadora Duncan
throughout her creative and meaningful life

Barbara Kane's Dance Seminar
with Françoise Rageau and Sandra Voulgari

Ιn collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia, Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports
(General Co-ordinator and Management: Dr. Evangelia Militsi-Kechagia, Archaeologist, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia, Scientific Curator: Maria Tsoulakou, MSc Archaeologist, Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia)

Isadora Duncan was born with a purpose and thinking to express change in life and to challenge the norms of the 1900’s in Western thought. The philosophy of Ancient Greece informed her dance creations. As early as 1903 Isadora Duncan began creating dances that reflected societal conflict; she wanted the creation of a new world free of exploitation, poverty and war.
She danced the Revolution of a new age free from bodily restraint, dances that expressed sorrow and joy, dances that explored resistance and hope.
Barbara Kane's Seminar with Françoise Rageau and Sandra Voulgari will explore these dances from the early works about the sea/water to the later works about the people who become aware of their oppression and fought for their freedom. Themes that will be presented at the Archaeological Museum of Messenia, Kalamata: Water and our respect and how over many centuries the sea has destroyed
so many lives / given also toο many tο our lives. Themes for the Castle presentation reflect revolt, awareness of the oppression of life, combined with hope and a vision that we carry on into the 21st Century. Dances of Revolt and Hope, strength and sorrow, hope and confidence combined in movement expression via the Dance and technique of Isadora Duncan.

Οpen to dance students (7 years old and up) and dancers. Also available for anyone at any age (no dance experience needed).
Limit of participants: 18 people

Barbara Kane studied with pupils of Irma and Anna Duncan, Lillian Rosenberg (1969-1974), Julia Levien (1976-1998) and Hortense Kooluris (1976-1991). Performing with the Isadora Duncan Centenary Dance Company 1976 to 1979. In 1979 Barbara moved to England and in 1985 set up the Isadora Duncan Dance Group based in Gent, Belgium, Paris and London with the support of Jetty Roels and Françoise Rageau. Barbara had a curiosity for all Duncan Dance developments in Europe and sought out and took classes with pupils of Lisa Duncan (Madeleine Lytton and Odile Pyros), with pupils of the Elizabeth Duncan School and of the Duncan School in Moscow. Barbara has always felt that Duncan Dance belongs in the community and throughout her career has included Duncan classes for adults, children and elderly people with and without disabilities. Barbara has retired as a performer but continues to teach the Duncan Dance.

Participation fee: 70 €
Down payment: 20 €
Registration & Information: Sandra Voulgari
+30 6973 077 158
mail @ kalamatadancefestival.gr
* Reservation +30 6931 512 683