Léna Blou

Lénablou, since her encounter with Jacqueline Cachemire-Thôle at the age of six, was moulded by dance and has set her heart into gwoka. She discovers the dancer-interpreter trade alongside Jean Nanga (Modern jazz teacher) and collaborates with many Guadeloupians artists including Director Gerty Dambury and musicians Luther François, Jacques Marie-Basses but also Charly Chomereau-LaMotte, Daniel Trépy.
 
Thanks to her experience, Lénablou pursues simultaneously her nurse and dance training before moving to Paris in 1986. She then gets her D.E.U.G in Dance (2 year University Course) and her Diploma of Choreographic Interpretation in Jazz at the Sorbonne University - Paris IV. In parallel of theoretical classes, she participates in many practical workshops involving all techniques both in Europe, the United States, in the Caribbean and mixing with the greatest including Bruce Taylor, Carolyn Carlson, Walter Nicks, Alvin Mac Duffy, Anna Czajun, Jacqueline Fynaert, Dominique Bagouet, Alphonse Thiérou, Ikéda, Joe Alégado, Faust, Pascale Couillaud Frey Carlotta among others...
 
At the beginning of the 90s, she renews her experience as a dancer alongside choreographers such as Quentin Rouiller or Jean-Jacques Vidal. She also collaborates with many international dancers: Shantala Shivalingappa (India), Dayron Napolès (Cuba), Vittorio Bertolli (Italy), Vitolio Jeune (Haiti).
 
Since 1995, Lénablou’s dancer-interpreter qualities were essentially expressed within The Trilogie Co but also in art performances in collaboration with visual artists, musicians, filmmakers...

From 1989, Lénablou takes on creative tasks, through the choreographic work called "Noitulover 200", ordered by the Vendredi Pichon Association (Guadeloupe). More than 40 dancers have participated in this adventure invading The Fort Delgrès of Basse-Terre for the occasion.

 

Empowered by the experience, she works solo with several bands (Van Lévé, Poukoutan, Gwa-ka Sonné) and continues experiencing as a dancer-interpreter and choreographer. She creates many pieces for her dance school (CDEC), for her company (Trilogie Co) and continues to expand her creative space by agreeing to produce choreographic creations for Barbadian dancers, but also for the Rudra Béjart Ballet at the Metropole Theatre in Switzerland (2003), in the scope of the campaign led by the Guadeloupe Architecture Chamber about sidelined spaces, intermediate spaces or for the Dominik Coco "Lèspri Kaskod" music show (2007) at L'Artchipel – National Stage of Guadeloupe

Lénablou’s creations through The Trilogie Co allowed the singular writing of the Guadeloupian choreographer to exceed the borders of the Guadeloupe Archipelago.

 

In November 2007, she presents the rewriting of the play "Chimen Trasé" at the Encre in Guyana  as part of "Temps du Ké Kô" , organised by Julie ADAMI. She recently presented her new creation "Fenêtre sur...  Mon bigidi et moi" at the EDANCO Festival in The Dominican Republic, organised by Edmundo Poy and at the Dance and Black continents Festival, organised by James Carlès in Toulouse.

 

Lénablou’s choreographic creations for the Trilogie Co are now major references in Guadeloupian and Caribbean contemporary creation.

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