Crossing The Line Festival - Αγρίμι / Fauve

Αγρίμι / Fauve
Lenio Kaklea

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.

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.

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