Lenio Kaklea
Lenio Kaklea gratuated from the Athens National School of Contemporary Dance (S.S.C.D), the two year dance training program at the CNDC in Angers (FAC) and the Masters program SPEAP, a program of experimentation in arts and politics conducted by Bruno Latour (Sciences Po, Paris).
As a performer, she has collaborated with Claudia Triozzi, Boris Charmatz, Emmanuelle Huynh, Kobe Mattys, Gerard & Kelly, Fanny de Chaillé, Hela Fattoumi & Eric Lamoureux, Laure Bonicel.
In 2009, she created Matter of act, an eight weeks experimental process during which a group of spectators appropriated a number of shows they assisted to and made a performance out of what they saw (co-production Athens festival 2009).
In 2010, she made a secinf version of Matter of act for the residency Summer Intersive organised by Christine de Smedt in Ghent (co-production les ballers de C de la B).
In 2010, she organized Fluctuat nec mergitur a scenic traffic jam with 250 participants in the frame of the competition "danse elargie", (event organised by the Musee de la danse and the Theatre de la Ville).
In 2012 she created the solo Arranged by date, a danced auto-fiction on our contemporary experience of codes (co-production musée de la danse / CCNRB, National Centre for Theatre and Dance / E.KE.THE.X, Menagerie de Verre / Festival Les Inaccoutumés).
Arranged by date has been shown in Paris (Menagerie de Verre), Athens (Athens festival), Vienna (Impulstanz), Marseille (Festival Parallèle #5), Atelier de Paris/Carolyn Carson (June events).
In June 2013, she created deux.L, a solo choregraphed in collaboration with Lucinda Childs on the music by Ryoji Ikeda (coproduction SACD / vif du sujet itinérant and Onassis Cultural Centre).
In May 2015, she created Margin Release, a duet with Turkish dancer Kerem Gelebek that deals with the idea of alterity of the language and the body of the performers on stage (coproduction Le Quartz/Scène Nationale de Brest, Théâtre Paris-Villette, Les Spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou, CDC Atelier de Paris/Carolyn Carlson).
Margin Release was shown at CDC-Atelier de Paris/Carolyn Carlson, Centre Pompidou, Festival Latitudes Contemporaines/Lille, Athens festival and festival Parallèle -6.
Invited by Matthieu Banvillet, she's curating a focus on contemporary female Greek choregraphers for the 2016 edition DansFabrik festival at Le Quartz in Brest.
Margin Release
Lenio Kaklea
Choregraphy and text Lenio Kaklea
In collaboration wih Lou Forster, Katerina Andreou et Kerem Gelebek Interpretation Lenio Kaklea et Katerina Andreou Lights Philippe Gladieux Music Eric Yvelin
Objets Olivier Brichet shibari creation Amaury Grisel Costumes La Bourette et l’équipe
Voice Work Sarah Chaumette Light system Coralie Pacreau Sound system Tal Agam
With the help of unexpected partners, Lénio Kaklea and Katerina Andreou shape their duet: mouldings of their faces and some of their body parts. Inspired by death masks from Ancient Rome, these marks help them not to conceal, but un-cover, unveil what is hidden behind. Carnal, the dance of the Greek choreographer travels down the path of introspection, without giving up on encounters nonetheless. For other people are also those we see our reflection in. Between reversion and reflection, duplication and distortion, Margin Release paves a way that deliberately plays with confusion, favouring the negative over the image, the revelation over the exposure. Until the masks are dropped and we are face to face with who we are.
Production and diffusion KOMM’N’ACT, Plateform for young international creation
In collaboration with Extra - Pôle
Coproductions Les spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou ; CDC-Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson ; Hellenic Festival SA ; La Villette - Résidence d’artistes 2015 - Paris ; Le Quartz - Scène Nationale de Brest
Supports CND de Pantin ; Le Merlan scène nationale de Marseille (dans le cadre de son partenariat avec KOMM’N’ACT) ; Le Prisme - Centre de développement artistique - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ; Le Carreau du Temple - Paris ; La DRAC d’Île-de-France - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
Arranged by date
Lenio Kaklea
Deux•L
Lenio Kaklea
Chorégraphie Lucinda Childs en colaboration avec Lenio Kaklea
Interprétation Lenio Kaklea Musique Ryoji Ikeda, Headphonics (VPRO version)
Lumières Philipe Gladieux Scénographie et vidéo Paris Mexis
« Je me suis vue danser dans ce flux intense d’énergie, subjuguée par la complexité, la précision et les épuisants décomptes qui caractérisent son écriture. »
Lenio Kaklea évoque ainsi l’univers de Lucinda Childs, figure majeure de la danse américaine qu’elle a sollicitée en 2013 pour l’écriture d’un solo. À l’arrivée, la traversée est hypnotique. L’univers visuel tissé de projections et de transparences, le talent d’interprète et l’intériorité de Lenio Kaklea font merveille.
Coproduction SACD, Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, Centre culturel Onassis à Athènes
Production-diffusion KOMM'N'ACT, Plateforme pour la jeune création internationale