Lenio Kaklea Αγρίμι (Fauve)
[Dance]Following on from the autobiographical solo Ballad and the piece for nine performers Age of crime, created as part of the bicentenary of the Greek war of independence, the choreographer Lenio Kaklea puts her dance to the test of the forest. By giving shape to fawn-like figures of fluctuating identity, we observe bodies as they undergo metamorphosis.
Forests are many things, ranging from fragile ecosystem, and biodiversity reserve, to place of fascination and legend. They are also everyday spaces for walking, foraging, hunting, observation and listening. The forest is an area where we might roam, lose ourselves, hide, or shelter. They exert a profound attraction on our bodies – as a place of transformation, flux and exchanges between organisms. Drawing on research spanning both anthropology and the imagination, the choreographer Lenio Kaklea traverses the foliage and woodland, with the objective of reinventing the presences which inhabit them over the course of rituals and dances which render these bodies permeable to their environment. Seizing upon the forest as a poetic, powerful, and dangerous force, rather than decor or landscape, Αγρίμι (Fauve) gives us the opportunity to experience identities that are in a constant state of metamorphosis – by turns meditative, untamable, eruptive or ecstatic.
