GO ‘HEAD BABY! (2021)




“Go ‘head baby!” is a video work for a group of friends who missed dancing together. It uses video-editing techniques to bring together different temporalities, exploring what does it mean to dance alone-together in times where shared spaces of dancing in big groups are considered problematic, dangerous or even illegal due to the pandemic. It uses the practice of headbanging as a point of recognition and the beat of the music as a shared agreement for a group-formation system. “Go ‘head baby!” explores a repetitive polychronisity and a solo-unison by unpacking collective somatic energies, imaginary dancing bodies and vulnerable resilience.



CREDITS
Concept & Choreography: Xenia Koghilaki
Direction, Camera: Petros Kolotouros
Editing: Petros Kolotouros & Xenia Koghilaki
Performers: Bernando De Almeida, Cary Shiu, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Michela Filzi, Yusuke Taninaka, Xenia Koghilaki
Sound: “Aviation Methods” by RLCT

SUPPORT
PARKEN IST BEWEGUNG Festival

PERFORMED AT 
PARKEN IST BEWEGUNG Festival at Kunstraum Digital, Berlin Gallery Weekend
30 April 2021 – 02 May 2021


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