BENO NOVAK

This work is part of an ongoing research series exploring how repetition transforms movement into collective experience.
 

In FLUX, created with ten Performact students in Portugal, we investigated the shaking motion of Kurentovanje as a shared practice. Over four weeks, shaking was amplified, reduced, stretched into stillness, and explored for its spatial and rhythmic potential. The aim was not to center on cultural heritage, but to ask broader questions: How do we participate in community? How can a simple embodied action foster connection? When does repetition become dance?

Throughout the piece, the audience was invited into proximity, dissolving the line between witnessing and participating, and becoming part of a shared resonance.
 

The practice revealed how sustained collective engagement generates trust, attunement, and a sense of co-creation—offering insights into how ancestral practices can resonate in contemporary contexts.

 

RESEARCH, CONCEPT, DIRECTION
Beno Novak
 

CO-CREATION & PERFORMANCE
Árnika Krasznai, Arthur Houdret, Carolina Reis, Constança Jesus, Elisabeth Bonk, Leoni Eibes, Manuel de Vos-Clinckspoor, Shali Eliezri, Sita Kotteck, Violette Houssin

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PREMIERED
December 2024, Performact, Portugal​