Αγρίμι (Fauve)

In Αγρίμι (Fauve), Lenio Kaklea interrogates Westernised relationships with the natural world and draws on literary references to choreograph a ‘rewilding of the bodies’.

Through on-stage dances, exercises and rituals, three performers including Kaklea explore the need to reclaim ‘wildness’, redefining what it means, away from traditionally limiting interpretations. Linking Kaklea’s choreography to the geographical, environmental and poetic richness of the forest, Αγρίμι (Fauve) positions dance as another wild zone to defend.

The work also investigates the themes of ecofeminism, queer identities and the refusal of domestication. The forest becomes a magical place where identities and bodies are in a constant state of metamorphosis, encounters between humans and animals take place and emotions from wonder to terror come to the fore.