31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-Dancing on Screen-AGUY MARIN: L’URGENCE D’AGIR (2016)–David Mambouch)
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MAGUY MARIN: L’URGENCE D’AGIR (2016) – David Mambouch
A portrait of the iconic French choreographer Maguy Marin, highlighting her radical path—where dance meets politics, social awareness, and the urgency to act.
This year, the Kalamata International Dance Festival is launching a new thematic section dedicated to the relationship between dance and the moving image.
In constant conversation with the Festival’s live performances, the Dancing on Screen screening program will take place daily from July 19 to 27, 2025, at the Theo Angelopoulos Amphitheatre / Kalamata Labour Centre, with free admission. It is addressed to both seasoned audiences and to viewers encountering contemporary dance for the first time.
The program consists of an eclectic mosaic of films that explore the relationship between dance and image through a range of genres, styles, and cinematic languages. It includes poetic musical films such as Symmetry by Ruben Van Leer, as well as biographical documentaries like Maguy Marin: L’urgence d’agir by David Mambouch and One Day Pina Asked… by Chantal Akerman, which portray the work of iconic figures in contemporary dance through a political and existential lens.
Also featured are dance-theatre fictions, such as Car Men by Jiří Kylián and The Cost of Living by DV8, where social satire, theatricality, and movement interact within a rich physical landscape.
The program further includes experimental works of sensory performance, such as Transept by Charmatz & Vayssié and the ritualistic The Ferryman by Damien Jalet, which focus on the body as a vessel of symbols, elements, and transformations.
Finally, William Forsythe’s The Barre Project elegantly captures the form and abstraction of classical ballet through a cinematic study in precision and expressiveness.
Collectively, the screenings map the spectrum of kinetic storytelling in cinema – from documentation and reflection to hallucination and metaphor – proposing a creative dialogue between lens and body.
This new section is implemented in collaboration with Delta Pi and made possible with the invaluable support of the Qualco Foundation and the Filmhouse / New Film Club of Kalamata.
Free admission, until all available seats are filled.

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-ERMIS MALKOTSIS/CONTACT IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS/MICROMOVING

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-DANCE ON ENSEMBLE/Christos Papadopoulos/MELLOWING

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-Dancing on Screen/SYMMETRY (2015)–Ruben Van Leer)

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-ANDREA SALUSTRI/CHOREOGRAPHING WITH OBJECTS

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-ANDI XHUMA BIG PLANS CREATIVE WORKSHOP

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

31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-Dancing on Screen-CAR MEN (2006)/Boris Paval Conen & Jiří Kylián)

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-Dancing on Screen-THE COST OF LIVING (2004)/DV8 Physical Theatre

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-Dancing on Screen-THE FERRYMAN (2016)/Damien Jalet & Gilles Delmas

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-OMAR RAJEH & MAQAMAT/Beytna

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
