"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
Art/craftsmanship: Max Lysáček
Thanks to: Exorcizphobia, Robert Vlček, Tomáš Nerad, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen
