"We have created a stage performance with the love of musical worlds. Of their genres, sub-genres, and sub-sub-genres, of their cultures, aesthetics, icons, and fetishes. It's an intense physical performance by a five-member performance group somewhere between a concert, a party, a light show, and a dance choreography inspired by headbanging, a cyclical repetitive dance movement, often limited to the upper half of the body or only the cervical spine. Headbanging emerged from a fascination with the theatricality and fiction of music, artistic alter egos, stage identities, costumes, and set design. It was born from the amusement of transgressing the permissible in ordinary reality, obscenity, silly song lyrics, symbols, mythologies, pseudo-spirituals and primordial spiritualities, conspiracies, images of hyperviolence and hypersexism, and commercial countercultures. Headbanger was born from the joy of collectively experiencing concerts, atmospheres, and moments that make us physically react with our bodies. Situations in which we can be emotional, expressive, and spontaneous. Situations in which we can express ourselves without exposing ourselves to judgment. Headbanger is a performance that has gone
through the distortion pedal."
Directing, choreography: Lucia Repašská
Concept, dramaturgy: Matyáš Dlab
Performers: Zdeněk Polák, Janet Prokešová, Zuzana Smutková, Pasi Mäkelä
Live Sound: Matyáš Dlab, Pasi Mäkelä
Scenography: D'epog
Costumes: Jan Matýsek
Light Design, technology: Jonáš Garaj
Sound: Jozef Esto Fertaľ, Václav Marián Šesták
Art/craftsmanship: Max Lysáček
Thanks to: Exorcizphobia, Robert Vlček, Tomáš Nerad, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen
In dramaturgy Divadla x10, since 2019, a series of curated evenings Y Events has been taking place, focusing on contemporary performative art, the connection between local and international scenes, the blending of genres, and the search for new narratives, organizational structures, and thematic frameworks. The upcoming February edition Y: Roar gives space to the simplest expressions of emotions and creates a shared space where emotions are not locked away in the thirteenth chambers but are instead experienced together with others.
Line-up: 18:00 doors / 20:00 THCLunaG / 21:15 D'epog: Headbanger / 22:30 SIKSA / 23:30 Alica Minar
The event is part of the festival Malá inventura, which presents and supports significant projects from the Czech independent and experimental scene. Every year, it connects artists, experts, and the general public, creating a space for sharing, reflection, and mutual inspiration.
