Léna Blou
Living Legends
Why Coralie Custos Quatreville recommends Léna Blou
“Léna Blou invites us to reflect on the colonial legacy and on how the body can become a space of emancipation, capable of transforming both an individual and an entire society.”
Léna Blou is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Guadeloupe. Trained in classical and contemporary dance, she has devoted her work to Gwoka, a practice of drumming, song and dance born of slavery and inscribed in 2014 on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Drawing on her research into the steps of the léwòz, she formalised Techni'Ka, a technique that turns the bigidi, that off-balance of the body that never falls, into a choreographic principle as m
- Place
- Pointe-à-Pitre, France
- Recommended by
- Coralie Custos Quatreville
- Collections
- Living Legends · Antikythera
Kréyòl gwadloup
Léna Blou ka envité nou réfléchi asi éritaj kolonyal é asi jan kò pé vin on èspas a émansipasyon, kapab transfòmé on moun é tout on sosyété.
Léna Blou sé dansèz, korégraf é pédagòg gwadloupéyèn. Fòmé an dans klasik é kontanporen, i konsakré travay a-y a Gwoka, pratik a tanbou, chanté é dans ki né adan lèsklavaj é ki UNESCO mété an 2014 asi lis a patrimwàn kiltirèl imatéryèl. Dépi rèchèch a-y asi pa a léwòz, i fòmalizé Techni'Ka, on tèknik ki ka fè bigidi, sa dézékilib a kò ki pa janmen ka tonbé, vin on prensip korégrafik é on filozofi an menm tan. I ka dirijé Lapwent Centre de Danse et d'Études Chorégraphiques é konpayi Trilogie, la i ka transmèt ékriti-lasa ba jenn dansè karibéyen.
