Lenio Kaklea
Born: in Athens (Greece).
She lives and works in Paris (France).
Lenio Kaklea is a dancer, choreographer, stage director, and artist. Her artistic practice, inspired by feminism and postcolonial thought, reveals the private and marginal spaces in which individuals construct their identity. Turmoil, desire and sexuality regularly come to the surface in her movement-writing. An important component of her work is the project Practical Encyclopaedia (2016-2019), a collection of nearly 600 stories of practices and rituals from European peripheral territories, which she stages in different artistic forms. Her recent creations include the autobiographical solo Ballad (2019), the play for nine performers Age of Crime (2021), Sonatas and Interludes (2021), a choreographic work set to John Cage’s eponymous musical cycle and Les oiseaux (2025) a play for seven performers that premiered at the Montpellier Dance Festival.
