"Untitled (figures)" by Lenio Kaklea

Performance

On registration : 33 (0)4 67 74 94 37 or by e-mail inscription.crac@laregion.fr

“I’m coming out” was a global hit in 1980 powered by Diana Ross, written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. Its lyrics, encouraging LGBTQIA+ people to come out, made it into the gay anthem of a decade marked by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Invited to create a performance on the subject, dancer, choreographer and writer Lenio Kaklea made the cult song her own. She embraces everything she identifies as lesbian in herself, leafing through a danced catalogue of stock figures (the cowgirl, leather culture, disco, the sailor).
With Untitled (Figures), she pays tribute to the ability of queer cultures to teach us to love the female body.

Duration of the performance: 40 minutes.

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.