31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-OMAR RAJEH & MAQAMAT/Beytna
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“With good friends… and good food on the board… we may well ask, when shall we live if not now?”
— M. F. K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
Beytna is a unique dance performance centred around the concept of sharing. Four choreographers and four musicians from Lebanon, Korea, Palestine, Belgium, and Togo come together over a banquet of food. Despite their diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic experiences, they reshape a communal and traditional family reunion into an artistic meeting of dance, music, and cooking.
Witness as they talk, drink, laugh, dance, and eat, transforming this simple gathering into an intricate, captivating performance. Beytna invites you into a world of compassion and friendship. It is a simple invitation into the home of the other — an invitation to the artist’s profession and choreographic statement, as much as it is to the forms and situations of the past.
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-DANCE ON ENSEMBLE/Christos Papadopoulos/MELLOWING
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-ANDREA SALUSTRI/MATERIA
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-GREEK NATIONAL OPERA BALLET/THE PLACE REQUARDT & ROSENBERG/Future Cargo
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA/Fantasie minor
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-THODORIS ECONOMOU & MARIANNA KAVALLIERATOS/Radar
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-KATERINA FOTI/The Kitchen Dance: A House Trance Vocabulary
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-MAGUY MARIN/May B
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-PANAGIOTA KALLIMANI/Fones
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-GREEK NATIONAL OPERA PROFESSIONAL DANCE SCHOOL/EDOUARD HUE/ERMIRA GORO EPILOGUE-Dive & Skipping on Stardust
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-NAGELHUS SCHIA PRODUCTIONS/DAMIEN JALET-Thrice
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-MARTHA PASAKOPOULOU/Dance Your Way Out
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-NANCY STAMATOPOULOU & TASOS VRETTOS/The Forest Riddle
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-GREEK NATIONAL SCHOOL OF DANCE/JASMIN VARDIMON/DANAE & DIONYSIOS/Tomorrow-Three Friends of Winter
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-XENIA KOGHILAKI/Slamming
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-KAT VÁLASTUR/Dive Into You
31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-AGNI PAPADELI ROSSETOU/The Day I Went All The Way Up The Mountain
