Bang Bang Bodies embarks on a choreographic journey into the collective imaginary. What brings bodies together? Where can the experience of togetherness be situated? The work uses headbanging – common in the metal and punk scenes, rituals, and protests – as an endless chain of reciprocity of space and time, sweat and breath, but also historical, cultural and political particles between bodies. On stage two performers explore the effect of exhaustion, repetition and persistence, bringing out both personal and cultural memories and ideas of how we perceive our bodies in relation to others and the world. They engage in an exchange that is never static but always turbulent.

XENIA KOGHILAKI works in the field of performing arts as a dancer and choreographer. Berlin based since 2019, she holds an MA in “Solo/Dance/ Authorship” (MA SODA), from Berlin University of the Arts (HZT-Berlin/Udk). She has previously studied dance and architecture in Greece. The body both as a concept and as a research tool, is placed at the center of her artistic interest, exploring concepts of collectivity, embodiment and belonging in relation to dance and choreography. Her practice focuses on challenging the triptych: power – knowledge – body, through revisiting the collective aspects of moving bodies in relation to dominant political and aesthetic imaginations. She has presented her work in Onassis Stegi, Arc For Dance Festival, K-Gold Temporary Gallery, among others. As a dancer she has worked together with Kat Válastur, André Uerba, Chto Delat, Hellenic Dance Company. She is a danceweb scholarship holder of ImpulsTanz Festival and a SNF Artist Fellow by Artworks.
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