This performance is presented in collaboration with K7 WEEK.
K7 is an initiative that, every year during week 37, gives young people aged 18–27 free access to museums, as well as tickets to theatres and classical music venues for just 40 DKK.
You can book your K7 ticket via the “book tickets” link further down on this page. Please add k72025 in the “Redeem code” field.
The ticket you booked for Slamming also includes access to MOLAR by Quim Bigas in Hallen, which we are presenting immediately after Slamming by Xenia Koghilaki.
Schedule:
20:00–20:35 – Slamming by Xenia Koghilaki in Blackboxen
20:35–20:50 – Intermission
20:50–21:40 – MOLAR by Quim Bigas in Hallen
21:50-22:15 – Stay, connect and reflect – Artist talk with Xenia Koghilaki and Quim Bigas in Hallen
A sweaty ritual. A dance performance on the anarchic and soaked in the adrenaline behavior of a crowd during a punk rock concert. In search of the radical aliveness and the invisible solidarity rules that accompany it.
Three performers on stage commit to one shared agreement: a
ritualistic dance that originates from slamming. They transform mosh pit practices, oscillating between rage and softness, rawness and trust, ache and pleasure, exploring these notions not as dipoles but as correlated elements of a resilient form of dance. The audience ‘sees’ the sweat dripping, the breaths intensifying, and the hearts beating faster while the three performers are wholeheartedly “caught into a mosh”.
The new choreographic trio by Xenia Koghilaki seeks certain emotional nuances in the aggressive crowd, reconstituting a collective ritual that lurks behind an ostensible rage. “Slamming” 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.
In organic affinity with her previous work “Bang Bang Bodies”, “Slamming” is part of an ongoing series of performances in which Xenia Koghilaki explores the relationship between the subcultural practices of moshing and the co-existence of the crowd
