BANG BANG BODIES (2022 - now)
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
Photo credits: Mayra Wallraff
SUPPORT
Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) and
the Studienabschluss-Stipendium für internationale Studierende at UDK
PREMIERED AT
- MA SODA Final Works at Uferstudios Berlin / HZT, 26 & 27 June 2021
OFFICIAL PREMIER
- TANZTAGE BERLIN 2023 at Sophiensaele, 05 & 06 January 2023
ALSO PRESENTED AT
- ONASSIS DANCE DAYS at Onassis Stegi, 04 & 05 March 2023
PRESS:
TANZTAGE BERLIN
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/theater/festival-sophiensaele-mateusz-szymanowka-programm-headbanging-und-lesbische-lust-die-tanztage-berlin-sind-zurueck-li.306081?fbclid=IwAR3Jq1VrWgmYdebwJDSxpNeB1YfVn1Zoz5dzs-lr2x3KnPbqZQWI1JfDuqo
https://tanzschreiber.de/en/centripetal-performance/?fbclid=IwAR27OndH9y6PB_xbNzdXxly4rQuHJ37Eak_vXDhOjl9I4XJfapFFTfW9ocs
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/mehr-entschleunigung-die-tanztage-berlin-dlf-kultur-23dfa264-100.html?fbclid=IwAR2WAVinNx39pptWsCcvFTV0dsRfRSJqyrhW4-zEsS0MZYpZQvYuqJdDCoc
https://www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitrag/2023/01/berlin-tanztage-sophiensaele-headbangen-lapdance-performance-mental-health.html?fbclid=IwAR1qiMB5SSCxn7BWEPLekb7mvPvzAgcQDFYyaJgX6RWVzUB-y-120TUGUxg
https://www.tanzforumberlin.de/en/production/bang-bang-bodies/
ONASSIS DANCE DAYS
https://www.monopoli.gr/2023/02/28/istories/art-culture-sub/663597/onassis-dance-days-oi-gynaikes-sti-skini/
https://olafaq.gr/culture/choros/o-choros-sti-stegi-einai-gynaikeia-ypothesi/
https://www.culturenow.gr/onassis-dance-days-to-festival-xoroy-tis-stegis-paroysiazei-to-ananeomeno-programma-tis-10is-diorganosis/
https://www.athensvoice.gr/politismos/horos/791842/i-nefeli-asteriou-kai-i-xenia-koghulaki-epistrefoun-sto-onassis-dance-days-kai-mas-miloun-gia-ton-horo/
https://www.athinorama.gr/theatre/3014348/oi-pente-xorografoi-tou-oddonassis-dance-days-mas-miloun-gia-osa-tha-doume-sti-stegi/
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