23rd Summer Dance Festival
23rd Summer Dance Festival
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Summer Dance Festival – 23rd edition
From the 5th to the 7th of June 2026, the 23rd Summer Dance Festival by Nea Kinisi unfolds across the Municipal Garden and the seafront of Limassol. Featuring eight artistic proposals—including walks, a cypher, and late-night gatherings—the festival invites audiences to gather in new ways.
This year’s programme approaches the body as a site of listening and relation: attuned to the shifting rhythms of the garden, the city, and one another. Moving between noise and silence, instruction and improvisation, intimacy and collectivity, the works inhabit the Municipal Garden as a living commons — a space where human and more-than-human worlds meet, overlap, and negotiate coexistence. Across performances, gatherings, and encounters, the festival proposes choreography as a way of sharing space, attention, care, and presence.
The festival includes a dedicated hub hosted by Kafeneio tis Giorgias, with snacks by Shuffle Bakes, a line-up of dance-film screenings, and a vinyl set at the G-Spot bar by the beach.
All events are free and open to all.
Πρόγραμμα
Performances
Ways of Listening
Artist: Neus Montané
Duration: 1 hour
Stand / Wait / Move
Artist: Collins
Διάρκεια: 15 minutes
Are you listening?
Καλλιτέχνες: Andrea Louca
Διάρκεια: 3 hours
Embodied Gardens
Καλλιτέχνες: Rhyzome Choreographic School with Ria Alexandrou
Διάρκεια: Multiple
Bubbling Bright Futures or How to Cement Pixels
Καλλιτέχνες: Seta Astreou-Karides & Nicola Mitropoulou
Διάρκεια: 25 minutes
Map Interrupted
Καλλιτέχνες: Areti Chourdaki & Ioli Kaskani
Διάρκεια: 3 hours
Cyph3: Jamming
Διάρκεια: 2 hours
Together-ing
Καλλιτέχνες: Μαρία Παπαγεωργίου
Διάρκεια: 25 minutes
Executive Production: Dimitris Chimonas
Production Assistants: Georgia Andreou, Anastasia Zanti, Maria Antoniou
Technical Production: Yangos Hadjiyannis
Graphic Identity: Vangelis Angelides
Photography: Παύλος Βρυωνίδης
Video Documentation: Coula Karasava
Warm Thanks to: Elisavet Panayiotou, G-Spot beach bar, Limassol Dance House, Sessions, Lex Gregoriou
Organized by Nea Kinisi, with funding from the Deputy Ministry of Culture and support from the Municipality of Limassol. This year’s selection of works was curated by Evita Ioannou, Marita Anastasi, Marios Pavlou, Georgia Andreou, and Diamanto Hadjizacharia.
