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-ANDI XHUMA BIG PLANS CREATIVE WORKSHOP

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-THOMAS HAUERT/DANCE IMPROVISATION TOOLS

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-ANDREA SALUSTRI/CHOREOGRAPHING WITH OBJECTS

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-Dancing on Screen-THE FERRYMAN (2016)/Damien Jalet & Gilles Delmas

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-Anniversary Exhibition-Kalamata, the City of Dance/1995–2025

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-GREEK NATIONAL OPERA BALLET/THE PLACE REQUARDT & ROSENBERG/Future Cargo

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-DAMIEN JALET & AIMILIOS ARAPOGLOU/FIND FREEDOM AND CREATIVITY

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-Dancing on Screen-ONE DAY PINA ASKED… (1983)/Chantal Akerman

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-Dancing on Screen-THE BARRE PROJECT (2020)/William Forsythe

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-XENIA KOGHILAKI/Slamming

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-KAT VÁLASTUR/Dive Into You

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-KAT VÁLASTUR/DANCE AS A (QUANTUM) RITUAL

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-Dancing on Screen-TRANSEPT (2023)/Boris Charmatz & César Vayssié

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-AGNI PAPADELI ROSSETOU/The Day I Went All The Way Up The Mountain

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART/A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-OMAR RAJEH & MAQAMAT/THE AESTHETICS OF ACTION IN SEARCH OF POSSIBILITIES

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-Dancing on Screen-Big Plans/WORKSHOP PRESENTATION
