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Photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
About the performance SLAMMING
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.
Photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Credits
Concept & choreography Xenia Koghilaki
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
Photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
About the artist
Xenia Koghilaki (she/her, 1990)
Xenia Koghilaki works in the field of performing arts as a dancer andchoreographer. 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 and 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 andvenues in Europe including [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series at ImPulsTanz, Oktoberdans, backslash festival at Gessnerallee, les excentriques at la Briqueterie CDCN,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 andSports. She is a Danceweb scholarship holder and she has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.
www.xeniakoghilaki.com
Photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Dates and times
Practical info
9.–10.9.2025, 20:00
Duration and stage
35 minutes in Blackboxen
Dansehallerne’s address
Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen V.
Accessibility
The venue is wheelchair accessible, with an elevator providing access to the stages. All restrooms are genderneutral, and an accessible toilet for wheelchair users is available.
About Dansehallerne
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography. Our focus lies in presenting and co-producing Danish and international productions for all ages. We are a gathering point for passionate dance audiences and professionals. From our center, we communicate professional knowledge of the art of dance, and we drive discussions about all aspects of the art of dance, at an intermediate level and in-depth.
Being a national center, as well as a gathering point for the local and international communities, we continuously work to ensure the best possible settings for artistic production and for the audience’s encounter with the art of dance. Every year, people from all around the country can experience the best that dance has to offer. And for several hundred artists, Dansehallerne is the year-round base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
About the performance MOLAR
MOLAR is a dance solo that talks about happiness. About happiness understood as a representation and as agreed norms of behavior. It tells us about happiness and its personification, about those stereotypical images that we directly relate to states of euphoria and well-being.
Businesses want us to be happy—or at least that’s what advertising wants us to believe. From fizzy drinks to insurance, happiness sells. And if not happiness, then coolness will do. The same goes for pop culture: countless songs try to lift our spirits— sometimes they even succeed. Can you really stay unmoved when someone plays a cool song?
Molar is Spanish for ‘being into something’, or ‘hitting it off’. By means of music, movement, gestures and facial expressions, Quim Bigas embodies different states and gives everything to make this feeling also spill over to the audience.
Can Quim mobilise the masses with their own emotions? Will the spark jump from the individual to the group? We will see. One thing’s certain: it’s going to be a blast.
Photo Ilariascarpa Lucatelleschi
Credits
A work by Quim Bigas Bassart
Movement Assistant Søren Linding Urup
Acknowledgment Diego Gil Tizzoni
Voices Søren Linding Urup, Soren Evinson, Inés Lambisto
Set up and sound Rafael Cañete
Production Anna Bohigas, Inés Lambisto
About the artist
Quim Bigas Bassart
Quim Bigas Bassart lives between Barcelona and Copenhagen. An artist working in the fields of choreography, dramaturgy, and informational procedures with projects that aim to explore a sense of place through the mediums of dance and choreography.
Since 2018, an associate professor of choreography at Den Danske Scenekunstskolen in Copenhagen. In 2024, Quim was awarded an artistic research grant from the Danish government to develop the project “Scores in the Library: Composition and Sense-Making Among Books”, which will conclude in 2026.
In 2019, Quim premiered DV (Desplaçament Variable) at Mercat de les Flors and participated in a series of performative lectures on archives in DV (Desplega Visions). In 2023, commissioned to create a piece for Esbart Rocasagna, ERA, which premiered at Fira Mediterrània de Manresa and is still on tour. Quim’s previous works, MOLAR and LA LISTA, also continue to tour.
www,quimbigas.com
Photo Mireia Rodríguez
Photo Martí Albesa
Dates and times
Practical info
9.–10.9.2025, 20:00
Duration and stage
50 minutes in Hallen
Dansehallerne’s address
Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen V.
Accessibility
The venue is wheelchair accessible, with an elevator providing access to the stages. All restrooms are genderneutral, and an accessible toilet for wheelchair users is available.
About Dansehallerne
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography. Our focus lies in presenting and co-producing Danish and international productions for all ages. We are a gathering point for passionate dance audiences and professionals. From our center, we communicate professional knowledge of the art of dance, and we drive discussions about all aspects of the art of dance, at an intermediate level and in-depth.
Being a national center, as well as a gathering point for the local and international communities, we continuously work to ensure the best possible settings for artistic production and for the audience’s encounter with the art of dance. Every year, people from all around the country can experience the best that dance has to offer. And for several hundred artists, Dansehallerne is the year-round base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
The Performance program 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.
More info www.k7k7.dk/week
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 informal artisttalk in Hallen
Performance Program
