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En Danseuse - Lenio Kaklea
En danseuse is a piece of work choreographed, based on a creative process that focuses on the body of the choreographer-dancer. A series of collaborations of Alain Michard with several choreographers from different generations, and varied backgrounds led to the birth of this piece, a ‘collection of dances’ with scenography using sound and video.
En danseuse is made of a scenographic installation which combines images of dance and sounds. Is it thought of as a confrontation between two choreographical forms, but also between two memories. It offers to audiences several ways of looking at the work, and appeals to their own memories of dance.
En danseuse is based on the idea that the body of the choreographer is the very source of their work, and carries within himself/herself a true History of dance. Vast and unique, this dance History is made of dances which have been lived, but also dances that have been seen or dreamt, and of everything that has fit in with ‘choreographic material’. En danseuse questions the role of images, and how they are active both in memory and in the choreographic gesture.
Lenio Kaklea is a dancer, choreographer and writer born in Athens. She dances for Alexandra Bachzetsis, Claudia Triozzi, François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea and Boris Charmatz among others. Lucinda Childs writes a solo for her in 2013 on the music of Ryoji Ikeda. Her choreographic work explores the production of subjectivity through the organized repetition and transmission of movements. It is presented at the Centre Pompidou, ImPulsTanz, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Lafayette Anticipations foundation and CND Pantin, among others. Her books are published by les presses du réel. In 2019 she is awarded the Dance Prize of the Hermès Italia Foundation and the Triennial of Milan. In 2020 her work enters the collection of the KADIST Foundation.
