BANG BANG BODIES (2021)

Bang Bang Bodies embarks on a choreographic journey into the collective imaginary. What brings bodies together? Where can the experience of togetherness be situated? Xenia Koghilaki focuses on embodied “discharge” (or physical release) associated with different types of crowds – from the metal and punk scene to meditative rituals and instances of mass protests. The work resituates the practice of headbanging, placing it on stage as an endless chain of reciprocity and exchange of space and time but also of sweat and breathings, of historical, cultural, and political particles between bodies, that is never static. On the contrary, it is always in a fluid and turbulent moving. Two female performers explore the effects of exhaustion through repetition bringing to spotlight how movement can bring out personal and cultural memories but also ideas of how we perceive our bodies in relation to others and how we imagine ourselves in relation to the world.

CREDITS
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Xenia Koghilaki
Co-creation & Performance: Luisa Fernanda Alfonso
Sound Design: Ernesto Cárcamo Cavazos
Lighting Design: Vito Walter
Outside Eye: André Uerba
Μentor: Kat Válastur
Tutoring: Janez Janša, Sandra Noeth
Physical Training: Nodas Damopoulos for Athens
Photo credits: Mayra Wallraff

Created in Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) with the support of
the Studienabschluss-Stipendium für internationale Studierende at UDK
in the frame of MA SODA Final Works at Uferstudios Berlin / HZT, 26 & 27 June 2021

SUPPORTED BY
ONASSIS DANCE DAYS Onassis Stegi
mentors: Christian Rizzo, Moriah Evans

PREMIERE
05 January 2023 TANZTAGE BERLIN Sophiensaele

FURTHER DATES
06 January 2023 TANZTAGE BERLIN Sophiensaele
04 March 2023 ONASSIS DANCE DAYS Onassis Stegi
05 March 2023 ONASSIS DANCE DAYS Onassis Stegi
04 April 2024 Kommuna Warsawa Poland
05 April 2024 Kommuna Warsawa Poland

PRESS:

TANZTAGE BERLIN

“Headbanging und lesbische Lust: Die Tanztage Berlin sind zurück” at www.berliner-zeitung.de

“Centripetal Performance”, Article by Cory Tamler, 06 January 2023 at Tanzschreiber.de

“Tanztage Berlin: Kraftvoll und politisiert” at www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de

“Zwischen Kopfreisen Lapdance und mentaler Gesundheit” at https://www.rbb24.de

ONASSIS DANCE DAYS

WHAT’S THE HAIRY FUSS? PRODUCTIVE CONFUSION AND BODILY EXUBERANCE IN “BANG BANG BODIES” written by Anastasios Koukoutas at Artworks medium

“Onassis Dance Days Οι Γυναικες Στη Σκηνή” Interview to Stella Charami for monopoli.gr

“O χορός στη Στέγη είναι γυνακεία υπόθεση” Interview to Aspa Koulyra for olafaq.gr

“Πέντε χορογράφοι του ODD- Onassis Dance Days μας μιλούν για όσα θα δούμε στη Στέγη” Interview to Maria Kryou for athinorama.gr

“Χορεύουμε στη Στέγη με τη Νεφέλη Αστερίου και την Ξένια Κογχυλάκη” Interview to Ioanna Goumouza for athensvoice.gr

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