Public Moves: The Birds (2025) (extracts)
with Lenio Kaklea & Jaeger Wilkinson

Mon 14.07., 18.45h l MQ Forecourt l Free entry

Together Lenio and Jaeger will present choreographic material from Lenio's latest show for seven performers – The Birds. The piece consists of dynamic dance phrases that help move the human body in space inspired by the way birds form in groups and communicate with each other in the sky. 

Public Moves dance classes take place outdoors every day – international and local instructors share their knowledge of everything from jazz and Bollywood dance to waacking in free outdoor classes. No previous experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are welcome!

Registration begins one day before the course starts at 11:00 a.m. via the calendar or by telephone on +43.1.523 55 58-19. If a class is ‘fully booked’, there is still the possibility of securing a remaining place on site. It's worth dropping by!

Biography Lenio Kaklea

Lenio Kaklea is a dancer, choreographer, director and writer born in Athens, Greece and based in Paris. She studied at the National Conservatory of Contemporary Dance in Athens (SSCD), where she trained in classical ballet and American modern techniques and repertories such as Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Jose Limon. In 2005, she was awarded the Pratsika Foundation Prize and moved to France, where she studied at the CNDC in Angers, under the direction of Emmanuelle Huynh, and collaborated with prominent figures of the European dance scene such as Alexandra Bachzetsis, Boris Charmatz, Claudia Triozzi, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea. In 2011 she completed the SPEAP program, an experimentation in arts and politics’ master directed by Bruno Latour at Sciences Po in Paris.

Since 2009, Lenio Kaklea’s artistic practice uses a wide range of media including choreography, text and video and is informed by feminism and postcolonial critique. In her work, she explores the production of subjectivity through the organised transmission of movements and reveals the intimate spaces in which we construct our identity.

Her work has been presented by institutions and festivals throughout Europe such as the Centre Pompidou, Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi-Pinault Collection, ImPulsTanz Festival, CN D Pantin, Lafayette Anticipations, Onassis Foundation, Athens Epidaurus Festival, the National Greek Opera, Milan’s Triennale, documenta 14/Public programs, and Les presses du réel. Her performances have joined public and private collections such as the CNAP-National Centre of Fine Arts and KADIST Foundation.

Along with her personal choreographic work, she is engaged in collaborations with other artists. In 2013, Kaklea presented a collaboration with the American choreographer Lucinda Childs on the music by Ryoji Ikeda and in 2016, she was invited as curator at the National Scene of Brest and presented Iris, Alexandra, Mariela, Katerina et moi, a program led by female choreographers working in Athens. In 2022, she collaborated with the Italian fashion house Bottega Veneta and created a performance at Punta Della Dogana with clothes designed by Matthieu Blazy.

In 2019, Kaklea was awarded the Dance Prize of the Hermès Italia Foundation and the Triennial of Milan and created the autobiographical solo Ballad. In 2021, she choreographed Age of Crime, a piece for nine dancers, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution at the Athens Epidaurus Festival, as well as Sonatas and Interludes, the emblematic work for prepared piano by John Cage, accompanied on stage by pianist Orlando Bass.

Kaklea teaches choreography at dance festivals and national schools across Europe, such as ImPulsTanz Festival, Camping at CND Pantin, the postgraduate programme Exerce in Montpellier, the University of Arts and Design of Karlsruhe, and the Schools of Fine Arts in Paris, Angers, Dijon and Bordeaux.

Biography Jaeger Wilkinson

Jaeger Wilkinson started dancing at the age of four. In 2016, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to commence training at The Australian Ballet School. During his time in the school, he had the opportunity to perform both in The Australian Ballets Sleeping Beauty, and in The Australian Ballets 2018 regional tour of Coppélia.

In 2020 he commenced an internship with Introdans in the Netherlands on Akram Khan’s piece KAASH. Later that year, he joined Elephant In The Black Box Junior Company in Pau, France. In 2021 he also had the opportunity to work with Jill Crovisier in JC Movement Production’s recommission of SIEBEN. In January 2022 he joined BODHI PROJECT dance company. Here he had the opportunity to work with such choreographers like Michelle Anne de May, Olivier Dubois, Michiel Vandevelde, and Lenio Kaklea. In the Year 2024, Jaeger Left Bodhi Project dance company to start freelance projects.

For the year 2025, Jaeger performs in new creations with both Jill Crovisier, and a new creation with Lenio Kaklea.

Photo: © Chris Rogl