Photo by Maria Toultsa
Lenio Kaklea / abd
Αγρίμι (Fauve)
OCT 9-11, 2024
Co-presented with L’Alliance New York’s
Crossing The Line Festival
Choreography and Stage Direction by Lenio Kaklea
Performed by Lenio Kaklea, Georgios Kotsifakis, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Sound Design, Video and Technical Direction by Éric Yvelin
Set Design by Clio Boboti
Lighting Design by Bruno Pocheron
Costume Design by 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.
Oct 10 Stay Late Conversation moderated by Claudia La Rocco
Run time: 60 mins
FUNDING
Fauve is co-presented with L’Alliance New York as part of Crossing The Line Festival
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BIOGRAPHIES
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), where she trained in classical ballet and American modern techniques and repertories such as Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Jose Limon. In 2005, she was awarded the Pratsika Foundation Prize and moved to France, where she studied at the CNDC in Angers, under the direction of Emmanuelle Huynh, and collaborated with prominent figures of the European dance scene such as Alexandra Bachzetsis, Boris Charmatz, Claudia Triozzi, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea. In 2011 she completed the SPEAP program, an experimentation in arts and politics’ master directed by Bruno Latour at Sciences Po in Paris.
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, Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, Palazzo GrassiPinault 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. Her performances have joined public and private collections such as the CNAP-National Centre of Fine Arts and KADIST Foundation.
Since 2009, Lenio Kaklea’s artistic practice uses a wide range of media including
Along with her personal choreographic work, she is engaged in collaborations with other artists. In 2013, Kaklea
presented a collaboration with the American choreographer Lucinda Childs on the music by Ryoji Ikeda and in 2016, she was invited as curator at the National Scene of Brest and presented Iris, Alexandra, Mariela, Katerina et moi, a program led by female choreographers working in Athens. In 2022, she collaborated with the Italian fashion house Bottega Veneta and created a performance at Punta Della Dogana with clothes designed by Matthieu Blazy.
In 2019, Kaklea was awarded the Dance Prize of the Hermès Italia Foundation and the Triennial of Milan and created the autobiographical solo Ballad. 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, accompanied on stage by pianist Orlando Bass. In 2024 she created Chemical Joy, a stage work for five dancers for BODHI PROJECT, contemporary dance company based in Salzbourg.
The same year, Kaklea was nominated for the 25th Pernod Ricard Foundation Award for which she prepared a new short film.
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou (Dancer) studied dance at the National School of Contemporary Dance in Athens and is currently studying at the Audiovisual Arts Department of the Ionion University (GR). As a performer, she collaborates with choreographers Alexandra Weierstall, Iris Karayan, Dimitris Papaioannou and Christos Papadopoulos. She also teaches contemporary dance in many conservatories and schools in Greece while developing her own work as a choreographer.
Georgios Kotsifakis (Dancer) is a graduate of the Rallou Manou Professional School inAthens and the Amsterdam School of Arts (NL). In 2010 he was awarded a scholarship by the Pratsika Foundation. As a dancer, he has collaborated with DV8, Rambert, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jan Fabre, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Dimitris Papaioannou, Andonis Foniadakis, Christos
Papadopoulos, and Alexandra Waierstall.
Clio Boboti, (Set Designer) is based in Athens, Greece. She has designed sets and costumes for numerous Greek directors and choreographers, including Lenio Kaklea, Ektoras Lygizos, Christos Papadopoulos, Yiannis Chouvardas, Dimitris Karantzas, and Levteris Vogiatzis.
Éric Yvelin (Sound Designer) first a musician in a 90’s punk band, Yvelin studied at the Beaux-Arts in Nantes and has developed musical projects in which he considers sound as a transmissible power, an affection. He has worked with Rémy Héritier, Christophe Fiat, Loïc Touzé, Mickaël Phelippeau, Carole Perdereau, Antonia Baehr, Guillaume Robert, Nathalie Collantes, Sabine Macher, Jeune Fille Orrible, Audrey Gaisan Doncel, and Bryan Campbell. Since 2014, he has accompanied all of Lenio Kaklea’s creations as a Sound Designer and Stage Manager.
Olivier Mulin (Costume Designer) made his debut for haute couture in 1998, at Jean
Paul Gaultier as a “knitwear and accessories” designer. He continued his experience as a freelance “knit or warp and weft” designer (René Derhy, Kenzo Jean’s, Sonia Rykiel, Missoni). His career then branched out into press styling for magazines such as Standard, where he was Fashion Director. He was also Artistic Director of the Paul&Joe men’s line and produced look books for various brands. He also sometimes takes care of the styling of advertising campaigns (Cache-Cache, Vanity Fair, La Poste, Aéroport de Paris). He also works on the looks of celebrities such as the singers Véronique Sanson and Elizabeth Vidal, the actress Julia Faure, or the rock bands The Dø, TwinTwin, YaltaClub or Ibeyi. For the stage, he regularly creates costumes for choreographers such as Juha Pekha Marsalo, Eszter Salamon, Marco Berrettini, MarieCaroline Hominal or Carolyn Carlson; in the theatre, he has also collaborated with Vincent Thomasset, Anne Rebeschini, Nathalie Broizat or Claire Lapeyre-Mazérat and Mélanie Martinez-Llense.
Jean Marc Segalen (Lighting Designer) studied photography. Based in Brest, he works in multitude rojects for Quartz Scène Nationale de Bretagne and collaborates with French and international choreographers such as Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Lenio Kaklea, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea, and Sorour Darabi.
Lou Forster (Dramaturg) is an exhibition curator and art historian. His interest in dance and performance dates to 2010. He writes about Alain Buffard, L’Encyclopédie de la Parole, Anna Halprin, Franck Leibovici, Rabih Mroué, Steve Paxton, Walid Raad, Yvonne Rainer, Claudia Triozzi, Le journal des Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and Art 21, for which he was a member of the editorial board from 2012 to 2013. He is also developing a curatorial practice. He assisted Pierre Bal-Blanc for La Monnaie Vivante in 2013 and worked for documenta 14 as assistant curator on projects by Cornelius Cardew, André du Colombier, Anna Harplin, El Hadji Sy and Yianni Christou, among others. In 2014, he launched an ambitious project
on the choreographer Lucinda Childs, which took the form of a monographic exhibition, Lucinda Childs, Nothing Personal (19631989), presented at the Centre national de la danse (CN D) and the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin as part of the Festival d’Automne à Paris in 2016, and at the Centre Chorégraphique and the Scène nationale d’Orléans in 2018. He holds a Doctoral Thesis at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS Paris) under the direction of Béatrice Fraenkel and Carrie Lambert-Beatty (Harvard University).
Claudia La Rocco (moderator) is the author of Drive By (Smooth Friend), Certain Things (Afternoon Editions), Quartet (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Best Most Useless Dress: Selected Writings (Badlands Unlimited), and petit cadeau (published in live, digital, and print editions by The Chocolate Factory). She edited I Don’t Poem: An Anthology of Painters (Off the Park Press) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, the catalogue for Danspace Project’s PLATFORM 2015, for which she was guest
curator. With musician/ composer Phillip Greenlief she is animals & giraffes, an experiment in interdisciplinary improvisation that performs across the US and has released three albums. She was a critic for The New York Times (20052015), editorial director of Open Space (2016-2021) and now edits The Back Room at Small Press Traffic. La Rocco has received awards from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Her writing has been widely anthologized, including in Imagined Theatres: Writing for a theoretical stage (Daniel Sack, ed; Routledge) and On Value (Ralph Lemon, ed; Triple Canopy); her lectures and performance works have been presented by The Walker Art Center, On the Boards, The Whitney Museum of American Art, et al.
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Crossing The Line is a citywide festival that engages international artists and New York City audiences in artistic discovery and critical dialogue to re-imagine the world around us. Crossing The Line is produced by L’Alliance New York in partnership with leading cultural institutions. Crossing The Line 2024 is curated by L’Alliance New York Artistic Director Violaine Huisman. Upcoming Crossing The Line performances include:Showgirl at NYU Skirball on Fri-Sat, Oct 18-19, by Marlène Saldana and Jonathan Drillet; Quartiers Libres revisited at New York
Live Arts by Nadia Beugré
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