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Lenio Kaklea
Schedule
Saturday, October 5, 2024
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE & ARTIST U.S. DEBUT
Originally commissioned for a Cycladic island, then restaged in the Tuileries gardens, Greek-born and Paris-based choreographer Lenio Kaklea designed this piece as a response to the physical landscape. Consisting of three distinct levels of spectatorship—near, far, and very far away—the performance blends environment with choreographic image, creating a structure that organizes the audience’s visual experience. In New York, the piece will be performed and reimagined by local dancers, Lizzie Feidelson, Leah Fournier, and Evelyn Dugan, along with Kaklea, and built in direct response to its environment.
Co-Presented in Partnership with Governors Island Arts as part of their INTERVENTIONS performance series.
Please note: Governors Island is only accessible by ferry.
If you are coming from Manhattan, take the Governors Island Trust Ferry at the Battery Maritime Building.
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If you are coming from Brooklyn, take NYC Ferry. Tickets are available for purchase on their app or in person at the ferry landings. Click here for route schedule, landings and additional information.
See map below to find the performance location on the island. Volunteers from L’Alliance New York will be on-site to direct guests. The performance site is approximately a 15-minute walk from either ferry landing. Please plan travel time accordingly.
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.
Leah Fournier
Leah Fournier is a dancer and dance maker based in New York. Leah has performed with artists including Juli Brandano, Julia Antinozzi, Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, Barbie Diewald, Nancy Stark Smith, and Vanessa Anspaugh. Her research has been supported by residencies including Centre Pompadour, The Croft, Atland, and MOtiVE Brooklyn, and she has received long term project support from the School for Contemporary Dance & Thought. Her collaborative choreographic work has been presented at Pageant, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the Asia Society, and Fresh Festival (CA), among others, and most recently alongside Amelia Heintzelman and Tess Michaelson as part of Offerings at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square. Leah works at Movement Research and, from time to time, with Sara Shelton Mann (CA).
Lizzie Feidelson
Lizzie Feidelson is a writer and performer. She has danced with Moriah Evans since 2015, performing in premieres at ISSUE Project Room, Danspace Project, SculptureCenter, The Kitchen, and Performance Space New York. Her essays and reporting have appeared in n+1, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, among other places.
Evelyn Dugan
Evelyn Dugan creates and performs through movement-based collaborations with artists in all fields. She was born in NYC and is a German/American dual citizen pursuing a BFA in Dance and a BA in Business, Media and Arts Management at Marymount Manhattan College (2025). Dugan’s performance repertoire includes works by Anna Halprin, Molissa Fenley, Pedro Ruiz, Dolly Sfeir, David Parsons, Gregory Dawson, Karen Gayle, Frederick Earl Mosley, Jie-Hung Connie Shiau, Jamal White, among others. Dugan was an artist in residence at The Watermill Center, where she produced and performed “Taut Nature” and performed as the King in Robert Wilson’s “UBU” for their Annual Summer Benefit during their International Summer Program and has since returned to work on their production team. Dugan has created works for Earl Mosley Diversity of Dance projects and affiliations.
Analphabètes Credits
Choreography, costume and performance: Lenio Kaklea
Production: abd
Coproduction: Phenomenon, biennale for Contemporary art in Anafi, GreeceProduction 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 ©Didier Dupressoir
Lenio Kaklea ©Karen Paulina Biswell
Leah Fournier ©Stephen Dillon
Lizzie Feidelson ©Paula Court
Evelyn Dugan ©Jaqlin Medlock
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