Ballad
2020 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Kaklea, Lenio (Greece)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Ballad
2020 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Kaklea, Lenio (Greece)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Ballad
For four years, and in six European towns, Lenio Kaklea has been conducting an investigation into the limitations of documentaries and the poetic evocation of vernacular practices. In this way, L’Encyclopédie pratique [The Practical Encyclopaedia] consists of a variety of different pieces: choreographies, installations, films and books. The solo Ballad, a prize-winner at the Triennale di Milano and the Fondation Hermès, is the most recent creation to be part of this series. From the Breton village of Guissény to Athens, via Aubervilliers or Nyon, Lenio Kaklea has been refining her protocols for exchanges and observation, while shifting the limits of choreography. The fractioned and fictionalised portraits of these various towns open up a far broader reflexion about the networks in which these multiple practices are interwoven. Ballad extends this route by drawing directly on the formative experiences of choreography: how are we choreographed by society, its institutions, our beliefs, our fantasies and our loves? Historical dances from the early 20th century are invoked so as to question the transformative power of utopias.
Source: programme of the CN D
Kaklea, Lenio
Lenio Kaklea was born in Athens and now lives in Paris; she is a dancer, choreographer, director and writer. She was trained in the Athens conservatory and she joined the Angers CNDC in 2005, before embarking on a MA in experimental arts and politics directed by Bruno Latour in Sciences Po Paris. Since 2009, she has been working on projects that include dance, performance, text and film; an important part of her work is devoted to the project Encyclopédie pratique: de 2016 à 2019, in which she explores European territories and gathers close to 600 narratives testifying to the habits, rituals and trades that compose and characterize these territories. She was awarded the Dance prize by the Hermès Italia Foundation and the Milan Triennial in 2019, and she created her autobiographical solo Ballad. In 2021, she choreographed Age of Crime, a piece for nine dancers, for the bicentennial of the Greek Independence war for the Athens and Epidaurus Festivals. That same year, she choreographed to the emblematic prepared piano piece by John Cage, Sonatas and Interludes, accompanied on stage by pianist Orlando Bass.
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Ballad
Artistic direction / Conception : Lenio Kaklea
Choreography : Lenio Kaklea
Interpretation : Lenio Kaklea
Artistic consultancy / Dramaturgy : Dramaturgie Lou Forster - Regard extérieur et transmission du répertoire de Martha Graham Jacquelyn Elder Regard extérieur et coaching vocal Dalila Khatir Transmission du répertoire de François Malkovsky Suzanne Bodak
Text : Lou Forster
Additionnal music : Musique originale pour Acts of Light Carl Nielsen - Musique originale pour Le petit berger Claude Debussy
Video conception : Monitoring Agnès Henry – extrapole
Lights : Florian Leduc
Costumes : Lenio Kaklea
Technical direction : Éric Yvelin
Sound : Éric Yvelin
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré au CND le 2 octobre 2020
Duration : 53 minutes
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