Artistic Director / Companies

Artistic Director 1995-2015
VICTORIA MARANGOPOULOU

Artistic Director 2016-2017
KATERINA KASIOUMI

Artistic Director 2018-present
LINDA KAPETANEA

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COMPANIES 

113 international & 53 national companies
246 performances by international companies
84 performances by Greek companies
84 Greek premieres
7 productions, 6 co-productions

1st Festival 1995

• HORΙΚΑ / ΖΟUΖΟU ΝΙΚΟLOUDI (a Kalamata International Dance Centre production)
• LYKION ELLINIDON KALAMATAS (KALAMATA LYCEUM OF GREEK WOMEN)
• STARS OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET
• MOMIX
• DANCETHEATRE OKTANA

2nd Festival 1996

• EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE
• BALLET PRELJOCAJ (Greek premiere)
• STARS OF NEW YORK BALLET
• DOUG VARONE & DANCERS (Greek premiere)
• SINEQUANON & LATHOS KINISSI (commissioned by Kalamata International Dance Centre)
• DAVID DORFMAN DANCE (Greek premiere)

3rd Festival 1997

• BOUVIER / OBADIA (Greek premiere)
• EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE (Kalamata International Dance Centre production)
• ARAKNE MEDITERRANEA (Greek premiere)
• HARIS MANDAFOUNIS CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY (co-production with Kalamata International Dance Centre)
• GREEK DANCE SOLOS: PERSA STAMATOPOULOU - NATASSA AVRA - MACHI DIMITRIADOU-LINDAHL - APOSTOLIA PAPADAMAKI
• CLASSICAL BALLET STARS
• TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY (Greek premiere)
• EL FARRUCO Y SU COMPANIA (Greek premiere)

4th Festival 1998

• TWYLA THARP (Greek premiere)
• ANALIA DANCE COMPANY (commissioned by Kalamata International Dance Centre, co-production with Analia Dance Company)
• SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE COMPANY (Greek premiere)
• EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE
• OKTANA DANCE THEATRE (commissioned by Kalamata International Dance Centre, co-production with Oktana Dance Theatre)
• D.C.A. PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ (Greek premiere)

5th Festival 1999

• MURRAY LOUIS & NIKOLAIS DANCE (Greek premiere)
• INBAL PINTO DANCE COMPANY (Greek premiere)
• SMALL DANCE THEATRE
• HARIS MANDAFOUNIS CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
• RUSSELL MALIPHANT DANCE (Greek premiere)
• RUI HORTA STAGE WORKS (Greek premiere)
• EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE

6th Festival 2000

• BALLET DE L’OPÉRA NATIONAL DE LYON
• COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD (Greek premiere)
• OKTANA DANCE THEATRE
• ELATERIO DANCE COMPANY
• ANALIA DANCE COMPANY / IOANNA PORTOLOU
• ROSEMARY BUTCHER DANCE PROJECTS (Greek premiere)
• LIAT DROR & NIL BEN GAL COMPANY (Greek premiere)
• BEAU GESTE / DOMINIQUE BOIVIN (Greek premiere)
• TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY

7th Festival 2001

• BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY
• AKRAM KHAN COMPANY (Greek premiere)
• TANZCOMPAGNIE RUBATO (Greek premiere)
• CHORICA/ZOUZOU NIKOLOUDI
• ΟΜΑΔΑ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΟΥ ΧΟΡΟΥ ΜΕΤΑΚΙΝΗΣΗ
• ULTIMA VEZ / WIM VANDEKEYBUS (Greek premiere)
• LANÒNIMA IMPERIAL (Greek premiere)
• JÉRÔME BEL (Greek premiere)
• EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE

8th Festival 2002

• RONALD K. BROWN / EVIDENCE (Greek premiere)
• ROBYN ORLIN CITY THEATRE & DANCE GROUP (Greek premiere)
• STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY (Greek premiere)
• PROSXIMA
• CHOREFTES
• RUSSELL MALIPHANT COMPANY
• MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY
• COMPAGNIE KÄFIG (Greek premiere)

9th Festival 2003

• INBAL PINTO DANCE COMPANY
• COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD
• XAVIER LE ROY (Greek premiere)
• ANDONIS FONIADAKIS (a Kalamata International Dance Centre commission and production – world premiere)
• HARIS MANDAFOUNIS CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
• MEG STUART / DAMAGED GOODS (Greek premiere)
• TERO SAARINEN COMPANY (Greek premiere)
• GEORGE PIPER DANCES (Greek premiere)
• CECIL MIKROUTSIKOU / GRIFFÓN DANCE COMPANY
• DANCE THEATRE MET’EMBODION
• GELABERT - AZZOPARDI CIA DE DANSA (Greek premiere)
• NASSER MARTIN-GOUSSET / LA MAISON (Greek premiere)

10th Festival 2004

• COMPAGNIE D.C.A. PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ
• IRVEN LEWIS DANCE COMPANY (Greek premiere)
• ΜΙCHAEL CLARK (Greek premiere)
• DANCE THEATRE OF NATIONAL THEATRE OF NORTHERN GREECE / OKTANA DANCE THEATRE
• SINEQUANON
• JÉRÔME BEL
• JAN FABRE (Greek premiere)
• TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY

11th Festival 2005

• ROSAS (Greek premiere)
• ANNAHUBER.COMPAGNIE. (Greek premiere)
• GIANNIS MANDAFOUNIS – KATERINA SKIADA
• PELMA DANCE COMPANY (Greek premiere)
• SINEQUANON
• PRUE LANG (Greek premiere)
• LES BALLETS C DE LA B (Greek premiere)
• DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOY

12th Festival 2006

• BALLET PRELJOCAJ
• DAVID ZAMBRANO – HERMES MALKOTSIS
• YASMEEN GODDER (Greek premiere)
• VIA KATLEHONG DANCE (Greek premiere)
• ZOE DIMITRIOU
• NOEMA DANCE WORKS (Greek premiere)
• X-IT
• PEEPING TOM (Greek premiere)
• SONIA BAPTISTA (Greek premiere)
• LIQUID LOFT (Greek premiere)
• EMANUEL GAT DANCE

13th Festival 2007

• ULTIMA VEZ / WIM VANDEKEYBUS
• BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY
• COMPAGNIES BEAU GESTE & NON DE NOM
• TONEELHUIS / SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI
• CAROLINE HAINAUT & PALLE DYRVALL (Greek premiere)
• LES BALLETS C DE LA B
• X-IT
• ROOTLESSROOT

14th Festival 2008

• HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY
• VUYANI DANCE THEATRE (Greek premiere)
• VERA MANTERO & GUESTS (Greek premiere)
• JONATHAN BURROWS & MATTEO FARGION (Greek premiere)
•  VIA KATLEHONG DANCE
• QUASI STELLAR / APOSTOLIA PAPADAMAKI
• STORM & DISCÍPULOS DO RÍTMO (Greek premiere)
• PERE FAURA (Greek premiere)
• SANKAI JUKU

15th Festival 2009

• SABURO TESHIGAWARA / KARAS (Greek premiere)
• COMPAGNIE EA SOLA (Greek premiere)
• JOSEF NADJ
• JASMIN VARDIMON COMPANY
• APOTOSOMA
• ADLIBDANCES
• PEEPING TOM
• IRAQIS BODIES (Greek premiere)
• MATHILDE MONNIER & LA RIBOT (Greek premiere)
• XAVIER LE ROY
• MATHILDE MONNIER

16th Festival 2010

• CCN - BALLET DE LORRAINE
• TROUBLEYN | JAN FABRE
• .PELMA.LIA HARAKI
• ZOI DIMITRIOU
• LA MACANA (Greek premiere)
• ASSOCIATION DAM – CESPI (Greek premiere)
• NOEMA DANCE WORKS
• LES BALLETS C DE LA B
• LEMURIUS
• THÉÂTRE DE SURESNES JEAN VILAR (Greek premiere)

17th Festival 2011

• EASTMAN / SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI
• I’M’ COMPANY / IVANA MÜLLER (Greek premiere)
• TYΠANA PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE & SINEQUANON
• AERITES
• L’ASSOCIATION FRAGILE / CHRISTIAN RIZZO
• HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY

18th Festival 2012

• CIE DCA / PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ
• PIERRE RIGAL / COMPAGNIE DERNIÈRE MINUTE (Greek premiere)
• VUYANI DANCE THEATRE
• .PELMA.LIA HARAKI
• FINGERSIX
• YELP DANCECO.
• PAT CATTERSON
• ΑΕRΙΤΕS

19th Festival 2013

• ROSAS
• QUDUS ONIKEKU
• L’A. / RACHID OURAMDANE
• ULTIMA VEZ / WIM VANDEKEYBUS
• FABIÁN BARBA
• ZITA / IRIS KARAYAN
• YPSILON / ANGELIKI STELLATOU
• CIE PROJET 11 / IOANNIS MANDAFOUNIS & MAY ZARHY
• DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU

20th Festival 2014

• NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER 2
• L’ASSOCIATION FRAGILE / CHRISTIAN RIZZO
• KVS, les ballets C de la B και A.M. Qattan Foundation
• METTE INGVARTSEN (Greek premiere)
• ΑΕRΙΤΕS
• SINEQUANON in music tale STONE SOUP by Stathis Gyftakis

21st Festival 2015

• WEN-CHI SU (Greek premiere)
• IGOR AND MORENO (Greek premiere)
• DADA MASILO
• MEDIE MEGAS
• EURIPIDES LASKARIDIS
• ROOTLESSROOT

22nd Festival 2016

• GREEK NATIONAL OPERA BALLET
• EVANGELIA KOLYRA & ARTEMIS LAMPIRI
• LEON & THE WOLF / CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS
• AMALGAMA / MARIA GORGIA
• DK-BEL / SOPHIE BULBULYAN, PELMA / LIA HARAKI, QUASI STELLAR / APOSTOLIA PAPADAMAKI
• CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY / ALEXANDER WHITLEY & THOMAS HAUERT
• ROOTLESSROOT / LINDA KAPETANEA & JOZEF FRUCEK

23rd Festival 2017

• CCN - BALLET DE LORRAINE
• RACHID OURAMDANE
• KINITIRAS / ANTIGONE GYRA
• ZITA / IRIS KARAYAN
• VERTIGO DANCE COMPANY / NOA WERTHEIM
• CREO DANCE COMPANY / POLINA KREMASTA
• HELENA FRANZEN & ORI FLOMIN (Greek premiere)
• MOVING INTO DANCE MOPHATONG / JESSICA NUPEN (Greek premiere)
• MARINA MASCARELL (Greek premiere)
• IOANNIS MANDAFOUNIS & AOIFE MACATAMNEY
• ADI BOUTROUS & ANDREA COSTANZO MARTINI (Greek premiere)

24th Festival 2018

• OLIVIER DE SAGAZAN
• COMPAÑIA SHARON FRIDMAN (Greek premiere)
• CIE CIRCONCENTRIQUE (Greek premiere)
• ULTIMA VEZ
• THI-MAI NGUYEN (Greek premiere)
• ΤΖΕΝΙ ARGYRIOU (co-production)
• EDIVALDO ERNESTO
• ANTON LACHKY COMPANY
• JUKSTAPOZ – CHRISTINE GOUZELIS & PAUL BLACKMAN (co-production)
• JOSEF NADJ & JOËLLE LÉANDRE
• SVALBARD COMPANY (Greek premiere)
• MARQUESE SCOTT & POPPIN JOHN (Greek premiere)
• KÓKAKEPANU - KONSTANDINA EFTHIMIADOU & PANAGIOTIS MANOUILIDIS (co-production, world premiere)
• LES SLOVAKS

OUTDOOR

• AKIRA YOSHIDA (Greek premiere)
• PETER JASKO
• EDIVALDO ERNESTO & “FRUTA” LUIS GARCIA LÓPEZ
• ATHANASIA KANELLOPOULOU - INTERNATIONAL KALAMATA MUSIC DAYS
• LIADAIN HERRIOTT (Greek premiere)
• TOM WEKSLER (Greek premiere)
• MARQUESE SCOTT & POPPIN JOHN (Greek premiere)
• JUSTINE BERTHILLOT & FRÉDÉRI VERNIER (Greek premiere)