SLAMMING (2024)
Three performers commit to one shared agreement: a ritualistic dance that originates from slamming. They transform mosh pit practices on stage, oscillating between rage and softness, rawness and trust, ache and pleasure, violence and tenderness, exploring these notions not as dipoles but as interconnected elements within a sui generis dance form. The audience ‘sees’ the sweat dripping, the breaths intensifying, and the hearts beating faster while the three performers are wholeheartedly “caught into a mosh”. “Slamming” seeks emotional nuances in the aggressive crowd, reconstituting a collective ritual that lurks behind an ostensible rage. It approaches crowd dances not as something to be deciphered but as a site of experience, exploring the significance of collective movement as a practice of resistance.
CREDITS
Concept, Choreography: Xenia Koghilaki
Co-creation & Performance: Irini Georgiou, Noumissa Sidibe, Xenia Koghilaki
Music Composition: Giorgos Poulios
Lighting Design: Nysos Vasilopoulos
Choreographic Assistant: Nondas Damopoulos
Dramaturgical Support: André Uerba
Artistic Advice: Elena Novakovits
Styling: Marianthi Hatzikidi
Production Manager: Olga Tsatsouli
Executive Production: Howtomakeyourlifeharder
Pictures: Pinelopi Gerasimou
PRODUCED BY
ONASSIS STEGI
PREMIERE
23.02.2024 Onassis Dance Days 2024
FURTHER DATES
24.02.2024 Onassis Dance Days 2024
25.02.2024 Onassis Dance Days 2024
22.07.2024 8:tensions New Choreographers Series ImpulsTanz Vienna
24.07.2024 8:tensions New Choreographers Series ImpulsTanz Vienna
27.09.2024 La briquetterie CDCN, Val-de-Marne France
19.10.2024 Oktoberdans Bit, Bergen Norway
20.10.2024 Oktoberdans Bit, Bergen Norway
Part of the "Slamming" research has been carried out at the BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway, within the context of the Transmissions program supported by EEA Grants and the Norwegian Financial Mechanisms 2014-2021.
Slamming is supported by the Onassis Stegi “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program
PRESS
“ Thrash mob - Slamming at Oktoberdans 2024: CARE’S NOT DEAD” by Fransesco Chiaro, at Persinsala, 20.10.2024
Espaces Magnetiques: “Le festival Excentriques c’est du serieux” by Fabien Riviere, 1.10.24
Spring Back Magazine, article: “Xenia Koghilaki finds solidarity within brutaliy” by Léa Poiré 10 September 2024