THREE TIMES REBEL by Marina Mascarell

22 & 23.07.2017
KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON - MAIN HALL | 22.7 | 20:00 & 23.7 | 20:30

22.7 / 22:00 / 60΄
23.7 / 20:30 / 60΄

Three Times Rebel
MARINA MASCARELL

Concept, Direction Marina Mascarell
Choreography Marina Mascarell & dancers
Assistant Choreographer David Essing
Composition, Live Μusic Yamila Ríos
Costume Design Daphna Munz
Stage Design Ludmila Rodrigues
Lighting Loes Schakenbos
Artistic Research Marthe Koetsier

Performance Nina Botkay, Maud de la Purification, Filippo Domini, Eli Cohen, Chen-Wei Lee

Α co-production by Korzo productions, Nederlands Dans Theater, Mercat de les Flors-House of Dance and Dance Forum Taipei. With the support of the Municipality of The Hague, the Performing Arts Fund NL and the Ministry of Culture Taiwan. Premiere: 27, 28, 29.1.2017, CaDance Festival, Korzo Theater, The Hague

With the support of the Embassy of Spain in Athens

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Three Times Rebel is an exploration of the frustrating structures at the origin of gender inequality today. In her most recent work Marina dives into the structure that houses today's prejudices, stereotypes, discrimination, symbolic violence, heritage and construction of gender.

The phrase "Grab 'em by the pussy" was shocking before, but it never sounded so threatening as in Three Times Rebel. It is a fierce, almost activist performance, where any physical contact is as uncomfortable as it is intrusive.
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Marina Mascarell (Spain, 1980) danced with the Nederlands Dans Theater II, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and Nederlands Dans Theater I. She studied Pedagogy applied to Dance and took her Master’s Degree in Performing Arts. Since 2011 she is a freelance choreographer. She has created works for GöteborgsOperans Danskompanie, Sweden; Nederlands Dans Theater I (UpComing Choreographers), The Hague, The Netherlands; Scapino Ballet (Tools), Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Dance Forum Taipei, Taiwan; Ballet Junior of Geneve, Switzerland and Skånes Dansteater, Malmo, Sweden. She is resident choreographer at Korzo Theater, The Hague.

Yamila Ríos Spanish composer, performer and sound artist, based in The Netherlands. Her artistic practice deals with the creation of aural spaces. She has worked on various projects and pieces, exploring the use of live electronics mixed with the sonic exploration of traditional instruments. Since 2014 she has been working with the choreographer Marina Mascarell. Yamila holds a Bachelors and a Masters in Sonology from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Daphna Munz (1983) is a designer working at the intersection of costume, art and fashion. She grew up between Manhattan and Tel-Aviv and is currently based in Berlin. Munz has created sets and costumes for dance, theater, film, music videos and fashion stories. She gained knowledge and experience in art during her studies at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, and while working at Circle1 Gallery, Berlin. In 2015 she entered the world of E-textiles and created her first wearable tech piece.

Ludmila Rodrigues Born in Rio de Janeiro (1979) she has a degree in Architecture and Urban Planing (UFRJ - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2006) and in Arts, by the Artscience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Art (KABK, The Hague, 2013). Ludmila has also worked as Art History lecturer and artistic coach at Galpão Aplauso, NGO in Rio de Janeiro (2007-2009). She has a background in architecture, dance and martial arts. Based in The Hague since 2009, she works as freelance graphic/stage designer. Member at CLOUD Danslab.

Loes Schakenbos Born in 1973, he travelled around the world as stage manager for Nederlands Dans Theater 1 and 3 between 1996 and 2004. Among the most renowned theatres she has worked at are Saitama Arts Center, Paris Opera Garnier, Lincoln Center, Sydney Opera House, Muziek Theater Amsterdam and Korzo Theater in The Hague. Loes runs her own business involving light design and technical production for modern dance productions.

Nina Botkay Born in Rio de Janeiro 1986, she studied ballet in Rio de Janeiro and later in Manheimm. In 2002 Nina was invited to join DeAnima Contemporary Ballet. In 2004 she joined the Nederlands Dans Theater II and in 2008 she joined the main company. Since 2010 she works as a freelance dancer with a diversity of choreographers. Nina teaches contemporary dance as a guest in different places and has mainly set/staged many works around the world for several choreographers.

Maud de la Purification Born in 1983 in Toulouse (France) where she studied at the Conservatoire National. She has danced with the Ballet National de Marseille, the Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse and with the Nederlands Dans Theater II in Holland. She has collaborated with Sidra Bell (NY) and Hiroaki Umeda (Japan), and is currently collaborating with Roberto Zappalà (Italy).

Filippo Domini Born in Enna (Italy) in 1993. Since 2012 he attended the course MoDem codici gestuali compagnia Zappalà danza. He began working with the Society Zappalà Danza in March 2015.

Eli Cohen Βorn in Spain (1990) and raised in Ιsrael. She studied in the Bustan School of Arts in Natanya, τηεν joined the Sadna in Kibbutz Ga'aton, and after her graduation she joined the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company 2 (2011). Since 2013 Cohen has been living in Berlin, working as a freelance dancer.

Chen-Wei Lee Born in Taiwan (1985). Since her studies, she has been a dancer with Batsheva Dance Company and in the youth company Batsheva Ensemble. With these companies she has toured all over the world. Chen-Wei was member of GöteborgsOperans Danskompani for one season. She is also Gaga lecturer in Taipei National University of the Arts.

ONE ONE ONE
Ioannis Mandafounis & Aoife McAtamney 

23.07.2017
KALAMATA SEAFRONT (Panellinio) | 11:00

Οne One One
IOANNIS MANDAFOUNIS & AOIFE MCATAMNEY

Concept Ioannis Mandafounis
Choreography Ioannis Mandafounis & Aoife McAtamney
Production Management Mélanie Fréguin
Production Cie Ioannis Mandafounis

Coproduction: Prairie – Migros Pour-cent culturel, Festival de Danse 2015
Supported by City of Geneva, State of Geneva, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Culture Ireland, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois (Trois-CL), Ministry of Culture-Luxembourg, Swiss Society of Authors (SSA)

One One One In the interactive work One One One, choreographer Ioannis Mandafounis invites the spectator to share with him some time within a common space in the most simple and direct way. In the simple “staging” of 2 parallel lines on the ground and 2 chairs, one on each line, the two artists invade the public space and embark the public into unexpected experiences. Sit in your chair, remain seated as much as you wish and gaze into the dancer’s eyes: this is how the prerequisites for a personal space will be created.

Ioannis Mandafounis studied at the National School of Dance in Athens and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. He was a member of the Göteborg Opera Ballet, the Nederlands Dans Theater II and the Forsythe Company. Since 2004 he has been working as a choreographer collaborating with dancers and musicians. Together with Fabrice Mazliah and May Zarhy, he founded the trio MAMAZA, which has co-produced international works shown across Europe and Asia. He was associate artist of deSingel theatre in Antwerp with the trio MAMAZA. He has collaborated with Elena Giannotti in ApersonA, with Aoife McAtamney and with Laurent Chétouane. Together with Bruce Myers, Elena Giannotti and Roberta Mosca he created Ossip Mandelstam. A Performance (2016). In 2015 he received the distinction of Outstanding Male Dancer by the Swiss Dance Awards. He is a dance instructor at celebrated training institutions teaching improvisation technique inspired by the ancient form of martial art "Budo", and he has been choreographing for companies and schools.

Aoife McAtamney Freelance choreographer living in Dublin. Aoife studied at London Contemporary Dance School & the D.A.N.C.E II programme. She has been choreographing since 2009, with her first work Sweetheart that’s the interesting part... premiering in the Pavillon Noir, Aix en-Provence. Her first solo Softer Swells was an Aerowaves selection for 2014. In 2012 she formed DISH Dance with Anna Kaszuba, Juan Corres Benito and Ilan Kav. Other collaborations include Egg Charade with Nina Vallon of Envy&P., A Room For All Our Tomorrows with Igor & Moreno, and One One One – a duet with Ioannis Mandafounis.

IT'S ALWAYS HERE by Adi Boutrous

23.07.2017
KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON - STUDIO | 19:00

• It's Always Here 35΄

It’s Always Here
ADI BOUTROUS

Choreography Adi Boutrous
Artistic Advice, Μanagement Rehearsal Anat Vaadia
Lighting Yoav Barel
Music Francisco Lopez, Prince Conley, Entrance
Music Edit Adi Boutrous

Performers Avshalom Latucha, Adi Boutrous

Premiere: “Curtain Up”, Israel 2016, under the artistic direction of Hillel Kogan

With the support of the Embassy of Israel in Greece

It’s Always Here
“The body carries our identity”: On a stripped bare stage, Boutrous and Avshalom Latucha move –at one point together, in sync by listening and responding to one another, at another point each defines a distinct path of his own.
The choreography is drawn from contact improvisation and even hip hop in the intensivity of the movement and technical virtuosity. [...] Boutrous and Latucha move in different directions while maintaining contact with their heads, as if they are incapable of separating or in long moments of leaning on one another, which at times appear intimate cradling and at others as if the body carrying is struggling not to collapse under the other’s weight. They dance with one another, on one another, under and through each other’s bodies. Thus, the body reveals the delicate and complex dynamic of the identity of this pair and how it is fed, bleeds together, supports and even compromises the personal identity of each.
IDIT SUSLIK

Adi Boutrous Born in 1989. Dancer and choreographer, lives and works in Tel Aviv. Ηe completed his formal dance training at Maspa-Mateh Asher School for performing arts in Kibbutz Ga’aton and soon continued at the Maslool - Dance Professional Training Program in Tel-Aviv.

Avshalom Latucha Born in Ashdod, Israel at 1987. He took his first dance lessons at the Haifa dance workshop Freelance dancer, he met Adi Boutrous at 2015 and took part in Boutrous’s last two dance pieces.

SCARABEO, ANGLES AND THE VOID by Andrea Costanzo Martini

23.07.2017
KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON - STUDIO | 19:00

• SCARABEO Angles and the Void 35΄

SCARABEO Angles and the Void
ANDREA COSTANZO MARTINI

Choreography Andrea Costanzo Martini
Dramaturgy Yael Biegon-Citron
Rehearsal Director Melanie Barson
Lighting Yoav Barel
Sound Design Binya Reches
Costumes Nir Benita
Music Julyan, John Cale/B. Eno, Franco Battiato
Artistic Advisor Hillel Kogan

Performed by Avidan Ben-Giat, Andrea Costanzo Martini

In the setting of a performance, the price and the pleasure of becoming an object are revealed; an embodiment duel.
Within the tight frame of the choreography, the experience of the flesh, skin and bones, the effort, the fatigue and the gaze of the audience are the elements that keep the dancers awake and ready to transform once again into something new.
ANDREA COSTANZO MARTINI

Andrea Costanzo Martini was born in Italy where he received his first education in contemporary dance and ballet. In 2004 he began his professional carrier in the Aalto Staats Theater Essen, in 2006 he joined the Batsheva Ensemble, and later the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm. In 2012 he moved back to Israel where he joined the Inbal Pinto Dance Company. Andrea is regularly working as a teacher and mentor and is choreographing for various groups (Sadna Ga’aton, Dafna Szilberg Theater etc).

Avidan Ben Giat Studied at the Academy of Music and Dance and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Danced with the Ensemble of the Batsheva Dance Company and later with the Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, simultaneously created and produced in Israel and Japan.

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

Do You Speak Dance?
Masterclass on Verbal Communication of Choreographic Research and Creation
by Christos Polymenakos

ΖΟUΜBΟULΕΙΟ MEGARON
22.07.2017 | 16:00-19:00 & 23.7  |13:00-18:00

Do you Speak Dance?

Masterclass on Verbal Communication of Choreographic Research and Creation
by Christos Polymenakos

Can one translate movement into word?
How can I communicate my choreographic research or creation to the audience,
my collaborators, my sponsors?
How can I use words towards the development of my creative identity in choreography? How does dance “open up” to people from different fields and backgrounds?

Do you Speak Dance? is specialized in promoting Verbal Communication of Choreographic Research and Creation, applying the body/word method. It is based on an original template for dramaturgical analysis which in turn has been developed through years of theoretical and practical research on dramaturgy, creation and communication of choreographic research and creation. Practical exercises and theoretical contextualization cultivate the ability to translate into words the ephemeral and elusive art of dance in different stages of both research and creation. Additionally, dramaturgy is proposed as a bespoke multimodal function which can ignite imagination and emotions by putting in use tools handpicked from different fields of scientific and artistic research. The specific masterclass is introductory to the method. It was presented by the Dance House Lefkosia, Cyprus, in March 2015 in the frame of an Artistic Residency program. The Kalamata International Dance Festival holds its official premier in Greece.
Working language: Greek, with parts of bibliography in English.

Open to professionals, students and amateurs coming from any field dealing with dance and the body in the mindset of open doors policy, be them theorists and choreographers, dramaturgs, directors, dancers, doctors, physical education instructors, arts managers, journalists, programmers, performance artists and writers, or other.

Christos Polymenakos has been developing and applying his method, body/word, in the frame of Performance Writing, since 2010 in creation and dramaturgy, in teaching performance writing, improvisation, acting, dramaturgy, critical analysis and feedback for professionals, amateurs and students. His creations and workshops have been hosted by State and Private Institutions and Festivals in Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Finland, the United Kingdom and France. He was the Chief Dance Editor for highlights, Arts and Culture Magazine and a Member of the Greek Ministry of Culture’s Committee for State Subsidies for Dance. Christos has worked as a dramaturg in dance productions for stage and film,
as a performer in dancetheatre, contact improvisation, experimental, children’s and youth theatre in Greece and abroad. Articles, essays and interviews Christos has conducted have been published in journals, magazines, newspapers and yearbooks in Greece, France, Germany, Portugal, Cyprus and online. He has been working as workshop facilitator at
the Onassis Cultural Centre since 2015.

16.7 Kalamata Central Square (20:00) Performance of Antigone Gyra’s Unsuspected Time
(inspired by Christos Polymenakos’ poem with the same title) by ΚΙΝITIRAS Dance Company.

Participation fee: 20 €
Down payment: 10 €
Registration & Information: Νatassa Aretha
+30 6934 164 243
mail @ kalamatadancefestival.gr

Hold it and Let it Go
Therapeutic Dance Workshop with Sofia Droumpali

KEFIAP - Centre of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
23.07.2017 | 10:00-13:00

Hold it and Let it Go
Therapeutic Dance Workshop with Sofia Droumpali

Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Dance are based in the holistic nature of the human being’s approach through sensory, emotional, and cognitive stimulation. In the workshop, the principles and the application of movement practice that allow the bodily-emotional communication will be approached through a one hour interactive presentation in which the structure of the Therapeutic Dance lessons will also be displayed. The central point of the workshop is the application of the above movement practices by teachers and dancing teachers who are interested to work in the field of Special Education Needs (SEN), and by the parents/carers of people with Special Needs. The participants will have the opportunity to experience the value of Therapeutic Dance as way of expression and communication through the experiential lesson in which people with Special Needs and their carers will participate.

The first part of the workshop is open to teachers, dancers, dance teachers and parents/carers of people with Special Needs. The second part (experiential lesson) is open and to people with Special Needs.

Sofia F. Droumpali was born in Kalamata. She studied contemporary dance and ballet at the pre-professional class of the Municipal Artistic Dance School of Pharis. She graduated from the Professional Dance School “Rallou Manou” (2014) and from the Department of the Primary Education at University of Patra (2013). She specialized in Dance Movement Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths University of London (2017). She has worked as dance teacher, primary school teacher, and member of artistic and educational organizations in Athens and Patras. For the past two years, she has worked in London, as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist with people with Special Needs, psychological difficulties, and refugees.

The workshop will be hosted at the Centre of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ΚΕFIAP), Messenia (Eastern Gateway Camp, Kalamata)
Registration: Olga Malama, +30 6931512683