Léna Blou
Pointe-à-Pitre, France
Living Legends
Coralie Custos Quatreville: “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
Living Legends · danse · gwoka · techni'ka · bigidi · patrimoine immatériel · transmission · pédagogie · chorégraphie · recherche · créolisation
Curated by Coralie Custos Quatreville
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