Program of the Day // 21.7.17
Performances
MEETING YOU by Helena Franzén and Ori Flomin
21 & 22.07.2017
KALAMATA CULTURAL CENTRE | 20:00
- Duration 50'
Meeting You
HELENA FRANZÉN & ORI FLOMIN
ΧChoreography, Performance Helena Franzén & Ori Flomin
Music Jukka Rintamäki
Video, Photography Håkan Jelk
Costumes Agnieszka Dlugoszewska
Company manager for Helena Franzén Lena Uhlander
Commissioned by ArtLab Gnesta and Scenkonst Sörmland in Sweden
Meeting You revolves around the theme of friendship and togetherness. What causes and creates friendship? What kind of attraction touches and affects us, and how does it remain with us? Long time friends Ori Flomin and Helena Franzén collaborate as choreographers and performers, as they question these ideas.
Helena Franzén was educated at Balettakademin (Ballet Academy), Stockholm 1986-1989 and at the Institute of Choreography at Danshögskolan (University of Dance and Circus), Stockholm 1995-1998. Over the years she has choreographed more than 70 pieces. She teaches technique classes and repertoir in Sweden and abroad.
www.helenafranzen.se
Ori Flomin’s choreography has been seen in Austria, Japan, Germany and Israel. He had the pleasure to dance in the works of Neil Greenberg, Mollisa Fenely, Michael Clark, Helena Franzen and Maria Hassapi. He was a guest faculty at Barnard College, SUNY Purchase, Princeton University, The New School and currently a part time faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
www.οriflomin.com
Jukka Rintamäki Composer living in Stockholm. He writes music for contemporary dance, film and video games. Since 10 years Franzén and Rintamäki have been collaborating on more than 15 works. Rintamäki has also worked together with Flomin in 2010 at New York Dance Theater Workshop (DTW).
Håkan Jelk Swedish photo and video artist. He has an ongoing collaboration with Helena Franzén since 2011. He followed Helena and Ori during the process of Meeting You in Gnesta, New York and Stockholm.
MOVING INTO DANCE MOPHATONG
ROMEO & JULIET / REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG by Jessica Nupen
21.07.2017
KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON - MAIN HALL | 22:00
- Duration 60΄
Romeo & Juliet / REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG
JESSICA NUPEN
MOVING INTO DANCE MOPHATONG
Concept, Choreography, Direction Jessica Nupen
Choreographic Assistance Sunnyboy Motau & Oscar Buthelezi
Music Composition Spoek Mathambo
Costume and Set Design Anmari Honiball
Cinematography Ed Blignaut
Light Design Wilhelm Disbergen
Sound and Audio Visual Willie Botha
'Dance of the Knights’ music piece composer Felix Striegler
Production Management Fanny Roy
PR, Marketing Meropa, Behind the Scenes, Ulrike Steffel
Photography Steve Thomas, Tanja Hall, Xavier Saer
Dancers Moving Into Dance Mophatong
Sunnyboy Motau, Oscar Buthelezi, Muzi Shili, Teboho
Gilbert Letele, Thenjiwe Soxokoshe, Asanda
Ruda, Eugene Mashiane and Thabang Mdlalose
Supported by:
Lufthansa | Rand Merchant Bank | Goldman Sachs | Ammer Foundation | Hamburg Cultural Ministry | Hamburg Cultural Foundation | German Embassy South Africa | Goethe Institute Johannesburg | Mantombazana Foundation | Dance Forum | Moving Into Dance Mophatong | South African Embassy Berlin | South African Consulate General Munich | Brand South Africa | University of Hamburg | Uber | Norman Goodfellows |
Private Sponsors Honorary Patron: Pulane Kingston
Rebellion & Johannesburg fuses traditional culture and contemporary culture to depict the landscape of the young individual wrestling with the convoluted South Africa as well as that of star-crossed lovers; Romeo & Juliet. Throughout the work we begin to discover that it is made up of various scenes which all seem to aid the entire theme of young individuals living in a chaotic land. It is when Shakespeare’s age old tale is introduced that we may get startled. The performers introduce Romeo & Juliet in a traditional South African context where a wild “Sangoma” replaces the concerned “Friar” and pink paint (Police used to spray protesters with pink water during demonstrations in Cape Town) the deadly poison.
FRANCESCA MATTHYS, February 2016
Jessica Nupen Grew up in Johannesburg where, as a young girl, she was exposed to the harsh brutalities of racism and the oppressiveness inflicted by a minority in power. These memories and experiences have had a profound impact on the way that she sees and interprets the world around her. Jessica completed her professional training in London at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and has danced in Covent Garden, the National Theater of Mannheim and the State Theaters of Giessen, Lübeck and Berlin, and currently produces her work in Germany and South Africa. Her works have been performed in Germany as part of an African Female Arts collective and alongside dance greats such as Emio Greco and Ohad Naharin in Italy. She recently opened the South African Dance Umbrella Festival with her internationally acclaimed REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG dance-theatre production.
jessicanupen.com
Moving Into Dance Mophatong Established in 1978 as a non-racial dance company, Moving into Dance Mophatong (MIDM) is a trailblazing, nationally acclaimed dance company, which has produced a multitude of award winning and productive dancers and choreographers throughout South Africa and internationally. MIDM is South Africa’s premiere professional, full-time, contemporary African dance company and training academy.
Spoek Mathambo Mathambo grew up in Soweto, South Africa. In 2010, his debut album Mshini Wam received the Young Director Award at the 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The edgy, unorthodox figure of Spoek Mathambo heads the South African band Fantasma project. Mathambo's music incorporates Zulu traditions, hip hop psych rock, ancestral beats, Bacardi house and even aspects of surf music.
Anmari Honiball Anmari grew up in the historical diamond town of Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. She was awarded winner of the Lufthansa First Best Collections. Currently she is working under her fashion label ANMARI HONIBALL that produces locally made women's wear.
Ed Blignaut Professional freelance photographer and videographer who focusses on capturing the essence of a subject, be it in nature or people. He has worked with Ross Garrett, Warren Van Rensburg, Steve Tanchel, and Sacha Waldman.
Parallel Events
The Museum is dancing: Touring - Presentation of Barbara Kane’s Day Seminar
MESSENIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
21.07.2017 / 12:00
The Museum is Dancing
Touring - Presentation of Barbara Kane’s Day Seminar
In collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia, Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports
(General co-ordination 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)
The Museum is Dancing
The dances of Isadora Duncan, the exhibits that inhabit the Museum, the improvisations and the creations of the participants of Barbara's Kane day seminar meet in an original tour - presentation in the Museum.
Contact for the seminar +30 6931 512 683
Barbara Kane studied with pupils of Irma and Anna Duncan. Ιn 1985 she set up the Isadora Duncan Dance Group. Barbara has retired as a performer but continues to teach the Duncan Dance.
Mary Tsoulakou She studied Archaeology and History of Art at the University of Athens and continued her postgraduate studies in Cultural Administration. Designer and creator of educational programs, exhibitions and cultural activities at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia.
Εducational activities
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
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