Αγρίμι (Fauve)

Some of the parks in European cities, such as the Duden Park in Brussels, were once used as hunting grounds, an urban periphery where the idea of the wild was projected and the idea of conquest was celebrated. This new creation by Lenio Kaklea transports us there. Born in Greece and trained in classical and modern dance, she has created several acclaimed performances in recent years in which dance skillfully merges with a reflection on the way female bodies are portrayed. In Αγρίμι (Fauve), hunting, sexuality and dance are brought together, their relationship with the gaze explored. For Kaklea, the forest is an environment where bodies aren’t captured in their unity; we have to enter the forest in order to feel the presence of what cannot be summed up in an image. She challenges the theatre as a place where the gaze reigns, working with pillars to create a discontinuous space where bodies escape perennial exposure. Together with two other dancers, she lends substance to choreographic material that evolves in volume and intensity, like a gust of wind suddenly passing through the woods, or the sudden movement of an untamed animal. Αγρίμι (Fauve) is presented in two versions: one for the theatre and one for the Duden Park at dawn, when hunting used to begin in the city.