About Αγρίμι (Fauve)

The Ardennes, the Black Forest, Broceliande, the Vexin. Forests are spaces that can elude immediate understanding. Here, humans and animals scatter and hide, stalking, pursuing and trapping each other. Places of calm and meditation, of ecstasy and vivid life, forests can also be threatening and toxic environments.

In Αγρίμι (Fauve), Lenio Kaklea meticulously choreographs a ‘rewilding of bodies’. Through on-stage exercises, dances and rituals, she explores the forest as a place – both physical and imaginary – for identities to dissolve and bodies to metamorphose. As the first performance that links Kaklea’s choreography to the geographical, environmental and poetic richness of the forests, Αγρίμι (Fauve) presents dance as another wild zone to be defended.

About Lenio Kaklea

Lenio Kaklea is a dancer, choreographer, director, and writer born in Athens, Greece and based in Paris, France. She studied at the National Conservatory of Contemporary Dance in Athens (SSCD), and in 2005, she was awarded the Pratsika Foundation Prize and moved to France, where she studied at the CNDC in Angers. In 2011 she completed the SPEAP programme at the Sciences Politiques in Paris, an experimental Arts and Politics Masters programme directed by French philosopher Bruno Latour.

Since 2009, Lenio Kaklea’s artistic practice uses a wide range of media including choreography, text and video and is informed by feminism and postcolonial critique. In her work, she explores the production of subjectivity through the organised transmission of movements and reveals the intimate spaces in which we construct our identity. 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. In 2021, she choreographed Sonatas and Interludes, the emblematic work for prepared piano by John Cage, accompanied on stage by pianist Orlando Bass, and, 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.

Her work has been presented by institutions and festivals throughout Europe and the United States, her performances have entered private and public collections (CNAP and Kadist) and she has received various awards (Dance Prize Hermès Italia Foundation and 25th Pernod Ricard Prize).

Artistic Team & Credits

Choreography and Stage Direction Lenio Kaklea
Performance Lenio Kaklea, Georgios Kotsifakis, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Sound Design, Video and Technical Direction Éric Yvelin
Set Clio Boboti
Light Design Bruno Pocheron
Light Technician Jean Marc Segalen
Costumes 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 Olivier Poujol and Chloé Schmidt
Bookings KUMQUAT | performing arts (Gerco de Vroeg & Laurence Larcher)
Production abd

With the support of Fondation enterprise Hermès
abd receives the support of DRAC Ile-de-France and the Hellenic Cultural Center in Paris.

Curated and produced by Kostas Stasinopoulos, Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine and Holly Shuttleworth, Executive Producer, HS Studio, with Daisy Gould, Assistant Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine, Isobel Peyton Jones, Production Coordinator, Serpentine, Andy Downie, Production Manager, Velocet.

Co-commissioned by Serpentine and Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels; Athens Epidaurus Festival; Centre national de la danse Pantin; Festival d’Automne à Paris; Theater Spektakel Zürich; Pôle Sud – CDCN de Strasbourg; La Briqueterie – CDCN Val-de-Marne; ImPulsTanz International Festival; DanceWEB Life Long Burning Network; Le Dancing – CDCN de Dijon.

The UK premiere of Αγρίμι (Fauve) is presented by Serpentine in partnership with Sadler’s Wells.

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