Headbanger

Distortion, Overdrive, Fuzz, Boost. Interdisciplinary performance inspired by the phenomenon of headbanging, an iconic dance move associated with “heavy” genres and their subcultures. A new production by Terén and the artistic collective D’epog.

Headbanger is featured as a resident production in the Incident series of music events at the independent cultural and community center Sibiř. Produced by Terén, the work was created by the D’epog collective.

“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 type of 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.”

About the company

Terén
The scene for contemporary live art and new forms of spectatorship.

Terén is a dramaturgical and production platform without its own company or permanent stage, operating since 2019 alongside Divadlo Husa na provázku and HaDivadlo as the third stage of the Centre for Experimental Theatre.

We support the creation and presentation of new works of contemporary live art. At Terén, regularly staged theatrical productions and interdisciplinary artistic projects are created. The priority of our activities is the development of our own artistic and cultural projects, which we present on our home stage in Brno, or at other locations through numerous domestic and international tours.

We specialise in establishing and developing new collaborations and their possible forms – among authorship, audiences, the public, various organisations, and international partners and networks. Through collaboration at Terén, we search for and share new methods of authorship and collective experiences of artistic works in the role of spectators and participants.