Αγρίμι / Fauve
Lenio Kaklea
Schedule
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE & ARTIST U.S. DEBUT
The Greek-born and Paris-based choreographic rising star Lenio Kaklea makes her North American debut with what she terms a “rewilding of bodies.” Climbing, creeping, stalking, and pursuing, Kaklea and her dancers inhabit a starkly minimalist cluster of metal poles, transforming the physical space of New York Live Arts on both vertical and horizontal planes. Evoking the physical and imaginary powers of the forest, the stage becomes a fertile, fragile ecosystem, able to create and dissolve both bodies and identities.
Co-presented with New York Live Arts.
This performance contains nudity.
Venue
Event Pricing
Children under seventeen (17) years of age must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian at all times and may not attend events unattended.
Lenio Kaklea
Lenio Kaklea is a dancer, choreographer, director, and writer born in Athens, Greece and based in Paris. She studied at the National Conservatory of Contemporary Dance in Athens (SSCD). In 2005, she was awarded the Pratsika Foundation Prize and moved to France. Since 2009, Lenio Kaklea’s artistic practice uses a wide range of media including choreography, text and video, and is informed by feminism and postcolonial critique. In her work, she explores the production of subjectivity through the organized transmission of movements and reveals the intimate spaces in which we construct our identity.
Her work has been presented by institutions and festivals throughout Europe such as the Centre Pompidou, Festival d’automne, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi-Pinault Collection, ImPulsTanz Festival, CN D Pantin, Lafayette Anticipations, Onassis Foundation, Athens Epidaurus Festival, the National Greek Opera, Milan’s Triennale, documenta 14/Public programs, and Les presses du réel.
In 2019, Kaklea was awarded the Dance Prize of the Hermès Italia Foundation and the Triennial of Milan. In 2021, she choreographed Age of Crime, a piece for nine dancers, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution at the Athens Epidaurus Festival, as well as Sonatas and Interludes, the emblematic work for prepared piano by John Cage. In early 2024, she was nominated for the 25th Pernod Ricard Award. She also created Chemical Joy, a piece for BODHI PROJECT, an ensemble founded by ex Merce Cunningham Company member Susan Quinn in Salzburg.
Αγρίμι / Fauve Credits
Choreography and Stage Direction: Lenio Kaklea
Performance: Lenio Kaklea, Georgios Kotsifakis, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Sound Design, Video and Technical Direction: Éric Yvelin
Set Design: Clio Boboti
Light Design: Bruno Pocheron
Costumes: Olivier Mulin
Landscape: Sophie Laly
Dramaturgy and Research: Lou Forster
Creation Assistant: Dimitris Mytilinaios
Assistant Set Designer: Filanthi Bougatsou
Pole Dance Training: Mandy Fragiadaki
Administration and Production Management: Chloé Schmidt
Bookings: KUMQUAT | performing arts (Gerco de Vroeg & Laurence Larcher)
Production: abd With the support of Fondation enterprise Hermès
Coproductions: Kunstenfestivaldesarts Bruxelles, Serpentine London, Athens Epidaurus Festival, CN D Pantin – Centre national de la danse, Festival d’Automne de Paris, Theater Spektakel Zürich, Pôle Sud – CDCN de Strasbourg, La Briqueterie – CDCN Val de Marne, ImPulsTanz International Festival and DanceWEB Life Long Burning Network, Le Dancing – CDCN de Dijon. abd receives the support of DRAC Ile-de-France under the title ‘Aide au conventionnement 2023-2024’. In the performance we listen to a text edited by Lou Forster and Lenio Kaklea from a Nivkh tale, reported by Charles Stepanoff in Voyager dans l’invisible. Techniques chamaniques et l’imagination [Journeys into the Invisible — Shamanic Imagination in the Far North], Paris, La découverte, 2019.Co-Presented with New York Live Arts
New York Live Arts is an internationally recognized destination for innovative performance and humanities programming, offering audiences access to art and ideas by creatives notable for their conceptual rigor, formal experimentation and active engagement with the sociopolitical and cultural currents of our times. Led by world-renowned artist Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts supports artists at all stages of their careers through our residencies, commissions, and artist services. It also serves as home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, which has been creating groundbreaking work for over forty years.
Production at L’Alliance New York
Programming Manager: Clementine Guinchat
Support for Crossing The Line
and The Wescustogo Foundation
Support for dance programming in Crossing The Line from The Harkness Foundation for Dance
Supported by FUSED, a program of Albertine Foundation in partnership with Villa Albertine, and by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.
L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Photo Credits:
Lead Image @Maria Toultsa
Lenio Kaklea @Karen Paulina Biswell
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