Two literary works inspired Lenio Kaklea’s latest creation: The Birds by Aristophanes – two humains despairing of war and corruption leave Athens in search of an ideal world – and Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig, which describes the hybrid bodies of female fighters. These two strands are used to talk about our relationship with nature and to explore the social, political and ecological dimension of its gradual extinction. Beyond this, the piece reflects upon the disappearance of art and our ability to travel and live together. From this textual and philosophical material emerges a choreographic score performed by seven dancers and a composite soundtrack based on an exceptional collection of recordings of bird colonies on islands where humans cannot go – except the bio-acoustician Thierry Aubin. Noted for her autobiographical solo Ballad as well as Age of Crime and Αγρίμι (Wild Animal), Lenio Kaklea continues to reflect upon the fragility of our ecosystem in a show where gesture and new technologies play an equally important part. A weird mechanical object hovers over the stage, as if the birds were, in turn, observing us humans…
En partenariat avec KLAP Maison pour la danse.
