Beno Novak

GROM / RUMBLE

plesna predstava / a dance performance

Avtorstvo, koreografija in ples / Autorship, Choreography and Performance: BENO NOVAK

SOAVTORJI / CO-AUTHORS:

Dramaturgija / Dramaturgy: URŠA ADAMIČ

Glasba / Music: ELVIS HOMAN

Oblikovanje luči / Light Design: BORUT BUČINEL
Kostumografija / Costume Design: TINA PAVLIN

Zunanje oko / Outside eye: KRISTÝNA PELDOVÁ

Producentka / Producer: KATJA SOMRAK

Tehnična pomoč / Technical Assistance: ALJAŽ ZALETEL

Produkcija / Production: PLESNI TEATER LJUBLJANA - Avtorski opus I / Author’s Opus I

About project:

Rumble is a personal initiation into a new era. It encompasses a series of resurrections necessary to peel away the ancient, established layers and materialise into something entirely new and unknown. The author's transformations appear in the performance at times as gentle awakenings, and at other times as sudden and painful nightmares. Each experience represents an essential fusion of memory and nostalgia. In its starting point, the performance resembles a personal ritual in which the audience is invited to enter, observe and become a part of it.

The main focus of Novak's dance opus is in the very origin of dance, its physicality and its motif. Researching the origins of dance created a fascination with modern physicality and what the author perceives as the physical experience of his Slavic ancestors. The artist draws inspiration from old pre-Christian Slavic rituals imbued with the ideas of death, burial, resurrection and re-initiation. One of the main inspirations for the solo is the ritual of carnival figure - Kurent, as one of the fundamental Slovenian still existing rituals, which is based on physicality, corporeality, torture and transformation.

The ritual develops as a result of the relationships between the body, space and sound, which steadily develop during the performance. The dancer explores his dimensions and tries to find freedom within previously established structures and systems. Inspired by Mihelič's Mrtvi Kurent, Novak uses the image of Kurent as a mediator between humanity and divinity. Kurent thus represents life as well as death, femininity and masculinity, pain and pleasure.

The performance includes elements of ritual mixed with the author's personal experiences, thus questioning and erasing the boundaries between reality and illusion.

Key Words: Memories; Legacy; History of my Ancestors; Pre-Christian Spirituality; Gods; Spiritual Space; Myths; Poems and Literature; Rituals; Dances; Voices; Earth;

O projektu:

Grom je osebna iniciacija v novo obdobje. Zajema niz vstajenj, potrebnih za luščenje starih in ustaljenih plasti ter materializacijo v nekaj povsem novega in neznanega. Transformacije avtorja se v predstavi občasno kažejo kot nežna prebujanja, drugič pa kot nenadne in boleče nočne more. Vsaka izkušnja predstavlja bistveno fuzijo spomina in nostalgije. V svojem izhodišču predstava spominja na osebni ritual, v katerega so gledalci povabljeni, da vstopijo, ga opazujejo in postanejo del njega.

Glavni fokus pri Novakovem plesnem opusu je v samem izvoru plesa, njegovi telesnosti in njegovem motivu. Raziskovanje izvora plesa je ustvarilo fascinacijo nad sodobno telesnostjo in tem kar avtor dojema kot telesno izkušnjo svojih slovanskih prednikov. Umetnik črpa navdih iz starih predkrščanskih slovenskih obredov, prepojenih z idejami smrti, pokopa, vstajenja in ponovne iniciacije. Ena od glavnih inspiracij za solo je ritual kurentovanja, kot eden temeljnih slovenskih še obstoječih ritualov, ki bazira na fizičnosti, telesnosti, izmučenosti in preobrazbi.
Ritual se razvije kot rezultat odnosov med telesom, prostorom in zvokom, ki se tekom performansa vztrajno razvijajo. Plesalec raziskuje svoje razsežnosti in poskuša najti svobodo znotraj prej postavljenih struktur in sistemov. Navdihnjen z Miheličevim Mrtvim Kurentom, Novak uporablja podobo Kurenta kot posrednika med človeštvom in božanstvom. Kurent tako predstavlja življenje kakor tudi smrt, ženstvenost in moškost, bolečino in užitek.

Predstava zajema elemente obredja pomešanih z avtorjevimi osebnimi izkušnjami, ter tako vprašuje in briše meje med resničnostjo in iluzijo.

Ključne besede: Spomini; Zapuščina; Zgodovina mojih prednikov; Predkrščanska duhovnost; Bogovi; Duhovni prostor; Miti, Pesmi in literatura; Rituali; Plesi; Glasovi; Zemlja;

F: Borut Bučinel

About author:

Beno Novak graduated from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in 2016 and was later invited to upgrade his knowledge at the Tisch Dance Department (New York University) and The Place Dance Academy (London). He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in choreography at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. He has danced for many different companies and with many renowned artists such as Gary Clarke Company, Jason Mabana Dance, James Wilton Dance Company, Deborah Hay, Etienne Guilloteau, Alix Eynaudi, Matej Kejžar, Paul Blackman & Christine Gouzelis, Zsuzsa Rozsavolgyi, Magdalena Reiter, etc. Many of his works are made in collaboration with other artists, such as the duet 400 Rabbits with Marina Abib, the solo Owe by Junior Mufutau Jussuf, ::Nature::Dialog:: by Dragana Alfirević, Body Concert with Ana Romih and others. In 2023 an international jury awarded him the first prize at the Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Gibanica for the collaboration project Rising 2.0 with musicians Boštjan Simon and Elvis Homan. He is the artistic and executive director of the Summer Intensive Portugal Festival and the Kaleidoscope Festival in Slovenia. One of his main commitments is to share/teach and develop his Zero Space Method. His work is a constant exploration of personal experiences expressed through strong physicality mixed with sensitivity, fragility, strength and exhaustion.

O avtorju:

Beno Novak je leta 2016 diplomiral na Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in bil kasneje povabljen, da svoje znanje nadgradi na Tisch Dance Department (New York University) in The Place Dance Academy (London).

Trenutno nadaljuje svojo izobrazbo v obliki magisterija v koreografiji na Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. Plesal je za veliko različnih kompanij in s številnimi priznanimi umetniki, kot so Gary Clarke Company, Jason Mabana Dance, James Wilton Dance Company, Deborah Hay, Etienne Guilloteau, Alix Eynaudi, Matej Kejžar, Paul Blackman & Christine Gouzelis, Zsuzsa Rozsavolgyi, Magdalena Reiter, itd. Veliko njegovih del je narejenih v sodelovanju z drugimi umetniki, kot je duet 400 Rabbits z Marino Abib, solo Owe Juniorja Mufutaua Jussufa, ::Narava::Dialog:: z Dragano Alfirević, Body Concert z Ano Romih in drugimi. Leta 2023 mu je mednarodna žirija podelila prvo mesto na Bienalu slovenskega sodobnega plesa Gibanica za projekt sodelovanja Vstajenje 2.0 z glasbenikoma Boštjanom Simonom in Elvisom Homanom. Je umetniški in izvršni direktor festivala Summer Intensive Portugal in festivala Kalejdoskop v Sloveniji. Ena njegovih glavnih zavez je deljenje/poučevanje in razvoj njegove metode Zero Space. Njegovo delo je nenehno raziskovanje osebnih izkušenj, izraženih skozi močno fizičnost, pomešano z občutljivostjo, krhkostjo, močjo in izčrpanostjo.

Obvestilo: V predstavi je prisotna golota. / Notice: There is nudity in the performance.

Program Plesnega Teatra Ljubljana sofinancirata Ministrstvo za kulturo RS in Mestna občina Ljubljana, Oddelek za kulturo / The programme of Plesni Teater Ljubljana is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture RS and Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture