Encyclopédie pratique, Détours.

We all have rituals and habits that reflect our way of life. Through our intimate relationship with movement the Greek choreographer Lenio Kaklea examines the many social practices that divide and connect Europe. Since 2016 Kaklea has collected 600 personal stories in several European cities. In this sensitive re-writing of these stories she questions our way of acting, without pretence. After her agreeable passage at NEXT 2018 she now shows Encyclopédie pratique in which three dancers catch the diversity of all these testimonies in dance. Inspired by the forms of life, gestures and customs on all sides of the continent Kaklea composes a danced portrait of Europe.

Lenio Kaklea graduated from the National School for Contemporary Dance (S.S.C.D.) in Athens, after which she took a two-year dance programme at the CNDC in Angers and the master SPEAP, an experimental programme around dance and politics that is led by philosopher Bruno Latour in Paris.

As a dancer Kaklea worked together with choreographers such as Boris Charmatz, Emmanuelle Huynh, François Chaignaud/Cecilia Bengolea and Laure Bonicel. Since 2009 she has developed her own choreographic projects. To support her work, she founded abd together with Lou Forster, an organisation for choreographic and curatorial projects that examine the intersecting lines between dance, investigation and critical theory. Kaklea's work was presented in important institutions such as the Centre Pompidou and trend-setting festivals such as ImpulsTanz.