Lenio Kaklea in conversation with Daniela Perazzo (guest curator) and Michaela Gerussi

Introduced by Michaela Gerussi, this episode follows a conversation between Daniela Perazzo and invited guest Lenio Kaklea. It is one episode in a three-part series, enDurANCE, co-curated with Daniela. The series has been produced with the support of an Ivor Guest Research Grant awarded by the Society of Dance Research and the Race/Gender Matter research group of Kingston School of Art.

works by Lenio discussed in the conversation:

Practical encyclopedia - http://www.abd-contents.com/choreography/encyclopedie_pratique.php
detours - http://www.abd-contents.com/choreography/detours.php
balade - http://www.abd-contents.com/choreography/ballad.php
Αγρίμι (Fauve) - http://www.abd-contents.com/choreography/fauve.php

Αγρίμι (Fauve) will be presented in London at Serpentine in early winter 2024


Lenio mentions a quote on 'the institution' from American artist Andrea Fraser


Bios:

Lenio Kaklea is a dancer, choreographer, director and writer who was born in Athens and is based in Paris. She studied at the national conservatory of contemporary dance in Athens where she trained in classical ballet and American modern techniques. In 2005 she was awared a scholarship and moved to France. Lenio's artistic practice uses a wide range of media including choreography, text and video, and is influenced by feminisim and post-colonial critique. In her work she explores the production of subjectivity through the organized transmission of movements and reveals the intimite spaces in which we construct our identity. In 2009 Lenio founded abd with Lou Forster. The company develops choreographic and curatorial projects that explore the intersections of dance, research and critical theory.

Daniela Perazzo is a dance and performance scholar with a specialist interest in the intersections of the aesthetic and the political in interdisciplinary movement practices and experimental dramaturgical processes. She joined Kingston University London in 2014, having previously taught at the University of Surrey. She is a Senior Lecturer in Dance and Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the Department of Performing Arts and the School of Arts. Her first monograph, Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.