Performance – The Flow of Life – Léna Blou

On September 7, the first Sunday of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, there will be a performance The Flow of Life by Léna Blou. The event will take place from 2:30pm to 3pm at the Auditorium of the third floor. Life sometimes teaches us that we just need to listen to it and not try to control it. Be there with it, taking one step at a time and embarking on a delightful dance with it.

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Léna Blou is an anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, and educator (Guadeloupe, French West Indies) engaged with a praxis she calls Bigidi’art. It is inspired by Léwòz, one of seven traditional dances found in her island’s sung and danced Gwoka practices. Dr. Blou theorizes and uses Bigidi’art as an everyday philosophy and dance technique centering an asymmetrical Black/Caribbean body in permanent rupture. The body in Bigidi’art is in a permanent imbalance as a mode of self-determination, and sheds light on Caribbeans’ harmonization of disorder especially in times of social, political, and environmental precarities. Blou is considered an avant-garde artist for creating Techni’ka, a contemporary teaching technique based on Guadeloupe’s Gwoka rhythms and dances. Dr. Léna Blou is the founder of the Center for Dance and Choreographic Studies and the Compagnie Trilogie Léna Blou and the Laurel Bigidi’Art, combining training, creation, and research.

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Performance – The Flow of Life – Léna Blou 
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
September 7, 2025
Sunday, 2:30 pm
Auditorium, 3rd floor
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
Ibirapuera Park, gate 3
Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral, s/n
São Paulo, SP
free admission