Let Your Hair Down

Free-swinging Energy

Diane Shooman

What do you share with the biblical Samson when you dance? Samson's power is hidden in his hair, but there is also Rapunzel, whose fairytale locks lead to love and to freedom. While dancing and especially while headbanging, our hair also channels boundless strength and longing for freedom, and lifts off in flight.

For the Tanzpassage, Georg Frauenschuh visualizes the euphoric energy of our natural (and unnatural!) crowns in two tondi and a showcase installation. The grisaille painting technique hailing from the Middle Ages time-travels through hallucinogenic lights and color gradients from the pictorial world of the Romantics to our current club culture. For in hair lies the power of transformation. The towering mountain of take-your-pick wigs in the Pas-de-deux showcase represents layers of your multiple selves. They can be put on or tossed off. WIth or without music, with or without hair, let your hair down and dance!