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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 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, fun in rebellion, 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, assuming that such a displacement could generate alternative ways of moving both individually and collectively.
Slamming is part of an ongoing performance series in which Xenia Koghilaki uses dance and choreography to explore the relationship between the subcultural practices of moshing and those of collective discharge in the crowd.
Xenia Koghilaki (she/her, 1990) works in the field of performing arts as a dancer and choreographer. Her practice engages with issues of re-examining the moving body’s aesthetic, political and social aspects. She is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance and the Architecture Department of the University of Patras . Since 2019 she has lived worked in Berlin where she completed her postgraduate studies at the MA Solo/ Dance/Authorship (SODA) program of the Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin (HZT-Berlin).
Since 2021, she has been developing a series of choreographic works exploring forms of collective discharge in movement, leading to performances such as Bang Bang Bodies (Tanztage Berlin, 2023), Slamming (Onassis Dance Days, Athens, 2024), and KOPANIMA (Sophiensæle, Berlin, 2024).
Her work has been presented in festivals and venues in Europe including [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series at ImPulsTanz, Oktoberdans, backslash festival at Gessnerallee, Les Excentriques at La Briquetterie, and Kommuna Warszawa. As a performer, she has collaborated among others with Kat Válastur on Strong-Born, Diana Even, and The FarNear. Xenia’s research has been supported by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland’s scholarship program, the Goethe-Institut Berlin, the Fonds Darstellende Künste and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.
She is a Danceweb scholarship holder and she has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.
Website: www.xeniakoghilaki.com
Concept, choreography: Xenia Koghilaki
Co-creation, performance: Irini Georgiou, Noumissa Sidibé, Xenia Koghilaki
Music Composition: Giorgos Poulios
Light 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
Produced by: Onassis Stegi
Language no problem
Duration: 35´
Strobe lights and loud sounds are used in the performance.
Accessible by wheelchair. If possible, please let us know in advance if you are coming with a mobility aid!
Onassis AiR Fellow Xenia Koghilaki carried out part of the "Slamming" research 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” by Xenia Koghilaki was first presented in Athens as part of Onassis Dance Days Festival in 2024. “Slamming” is presented with the support of Onassis Stegi – Touring Program.
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