Dimitri Kalaitzidis

Dimitri Kalaitzidis is a performer, teacher, and dance creator originally from Western Massachusetts. Having graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Contemporary Dance, he performed works by Bill T. Jones, Merce Cunningham, Seán Curran and Pamela Pietro. Later Dimitri joined the company The Bodhi Project at SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance where he worked with choreographers Sita Ostheimer, Mala Kline, Rosalba Torres, Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, and Emanuel Gat and performed across Europe, South Africa, and Israel. In 2017, Dimitri co-founded the project Los Little Guys together with Mexican artist Erik Elizondo. Through this project he has created original works, collaborated with international movement and sound artists, and developed a deep interest in improvisation as a means of creation, performance, and pedagogy. He has since performed, taught, and created throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia in places such as Dock11, b12 Festival, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Festival Internacional Kinissis, Gibney Dance, VERVE of Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Iceland Dance Company, SUB.LAB WORKSHOPS, Circuit-Est Centre Chorégraphique, Milk Shake Project, Casa Abierta Oaxaca, Lux Boreal, A Cielo Abierto, Festival Achoradas, Ochanomizu University, Encuentros Mutantes, and Nritya Shakti among others.