Charlie Laban Trier (DK/NL) / elieli (SE)

(headbang)

(headbang)
02 Jul '25 to 03 Jul '25
Charlie Laban Trier (DK/NL) / elieli (SE)

Two dancers with wildly swishing hair and a drummer engage in a mesmerising, hypnotic trance. Rough headbanging from the heavy metal scene becomes a powerful means of pushing physical boundaries in a quest for ecstasy, while themes of vulnerability, surrender and care for each other - and for the world around us - come to life in an irresistible and powerful way.

Programme section Julidans On Stage

Dutch premiere


Location Frascati
Venue Frascati 1
Run time 55 minutes
Language Language no problem

(headbang)

In (headbang), a drummer and two dancers in a transparent cube challenge what has stagnated. In an ecstatic physical journey, where live percussion, whispers, loops and screams merge with the hypnotic headbang cadence, they together surrender to the rhythmic energy. In one fluid movement, the dancers transform into slimy slugs, gentle lashers or mopheads, challenging just about all traditional notions of physicality and expression.


The performance toys with references to witches, intimacy and inseparability, and uses headbanging to explore these notions. The movement, often associated with the heavy metal scene, is usually affiliated with aggression. -|-By playing precisely with these contrasts, (headbang) invites reflection on the neglected focus on caring in a harsh, rough world. The physicality of headbanging catapults the audience into an ecstatic, collective experience in which surrender and resistance, chaos and control, collide and merge.

More about Charlie Laban Trier, elieli & Josefin Runsteen

Charlie Laban Trier (b. DK 1987) is a dancer and choreographer, trained and graduated from SNDO/AHK in 2018. He’s a member of Jacuzzi – an artist-run space in Amsterdam. Inspired by his experience as a transperson he approaches dance as a shape-shifting force—seductive and subversive, always complicating fixed ideas.

elieli is a choreographer and multidisciplinary artist living in Stockholm. Their work can be experienced through performances, workshops, writings, films and installations. They explore how everything is entangled, and often communicate a sense of tactility, of radical softness and attentiveness as generosity. eli eli is affiliated with SKOGEN (SE) and the collective Glada Sprutan.

-|-Josefin Runsteen is a Swedish multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer. She has released two albums so far; in 2020 an acoustic improvised album Thank God the Plague is Over together with Charles Spearin (CA), and in 2021 an electronic solo album, HANA - Three Bodies (Original Soundtrack). Besides creating her own music, Josefin plays with multiple pop artists, as well as larger jazz bands like; Fire! Orchestra, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Mariam the Believer.

Credits


choreography, concept and dancers elieli and Charlie Laban Trier
composer and musician Josefin Runsteen
technician Felix Noble Andreasson
light design Peter Widell
costume designer Kristin Bergman

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set designer Oskar Gustafsson
support SKOGEN-Masthuggsterrassen, Swedish Arts Grant, Gothenburg City Culture Fund, Svensk-Danska fonden, Fylkingen, Glada sprutan, Jacuzzi studio, Konstepidemin
premiere SKOGEN, Gothenburg, September 2021
special thanks to Niklas Niki Blomberg, Raoni Muzho Saleh

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