The Keep Dancing educational programme continues...

The Kalamata International Dance Festival, in collaboration with the Kalamata Municipal Dance School, continues the Keep Dancing educational programme this year.

February 15th to May 18th, 2025

To expand the activities addressed to the local community throughout the year, the Kalamata International Dance Festival, in collaboration with the Kalamata Municipal Dance School, continues the Keep Dancing educational programme this year. Five seminars by renowned dance teachers will occur from February 15th to May 18th.

Keep Dancing was launched in 2018-2019 and includes contemporary dance workshops that take place throughout the year and are aimed at both dance students in the city and residents of Kalamata and the wider region, and in particular, at specific social groups such as people over 65, adults, parents, children and people with disabilities.

Five renowned dance teachers, Emmy Korfia, Ermira Goro, Ioanna Apostolou, Maria Manioti and Evangelia Randou, will be holding this year's Keep Dancing with the aim of opening new spaces of expression, knowledge and creation for the residents of Kalamata.

February 15th & 16th

Emmy Korfia
Body Mechanics in Ballet
Ballet seminar for children and adolescents

Emmy Korfia's seminar seeks to decode ballet. We will approach body mechanics from another perspective through the exercises and lesson structure. We will distance ourselves from the strict search for the exact result and focus on the way of studying and the benefits that ballet offers dance students. We will analyse the form and what this classic, absolute technique provides to the modern world.

Ermira Goro
Meetings
Improvisation and movement workshop for adults

The primary materials of Ermira Goro's workshop will be movement and the body and how they can be used in different ways as performative materials. The seminar will focus on awareness of movement and bodily detail through creative challenges to encourage and empower creative choices, instinctive movement and artistic decisions.

March 22nd & 23rd

Ioanna Apostolou
Fine Moves
Modern dance seminar for children and adolescents

In this two-day seminar, we will focus on how to make our bodies move with greater precision and clarity. Through exercises, we will come into contact with the floor and find movement levers using our body weight. We will be led to learn movement phrases, emphasising the qualities of movement, breathing, energy management, and all those elements that help us be precise in our physical intention and enjoy the joy of movement.

May 17th & 18th

Maria Manioti
DANCING STORIES
Workshop for parents and children from 4 to 7 years old

Telling a story gives the impetus and the opportunity for parents and their children to play together, to get to know, touch, observe and learn from each other through the joy of movement. A safe experimentation that turns into a learning experience. An opportunity for parents to try different ways of approaching their children, participating in the action themselves. A workshop with elements of music-kinesthetic education, psychokinetic development, creative movement and expression.

Evangelia Randou
The Poetics of Physical Expression
Contemporary dance seminar for children and adult workshop

The body is language. The body's intention, emotion and musicality are transformed into tools of expression and creation. The workshop is an experiential exploration of our expressive potential through movement. Through guided improvisation, participants are invited to discover new ways of connecting with their bodies and explore different qualities of movement and expression. The workshop opens a space for experimentation, where the body becomes an expression, musicality emerges naturally, and intention activates action. The workshop is open to all ages and levels of experience, offering a deep yet free exploration of movement and self-expression.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Applications: [email protected], tel. 2721083086 & at the secretariat of the Municipal Dance School of Kalamata

Participation fee:

10€ General Admission

5€ for students of the Municipal Dance School of Kalamata

More information: www. kalamatadancefestival.gr

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