Mass on the Move is a new work by Johannes Bellinkx in collaboration with choreographer Benjamin Vandewalle, exploring what it means to come together through shared presence in public space.
The project unfolds as a large-scale participatory performance in public space, where a temporary collective body emerges: a network of people, gestures, and stories that briefly settles into the city before dissolving again. The work grows through a process, expanding from a small group into a larger collective that moves beyond existing social circles. They activate the city through a series of gestures evolving from three themes: slowing down, softness and connectedness.
There is no stage. Passers-by encounter a city that behaves differently: slower, softer, more attentive. Rather than leaving behind a fixed result, the work creates an experience that lingers: in participants, in passers-by, and in the memory of the place.
Benjamin and Johannes will collaborate with sound accousmatic composer Laryssa Kim and field recordist and sound artist Sjoerd Leijten.
The work is a co-production between SoAP Maastricht (NL) and Caravan Productions (B) and the creation will be supported by different European festivals like La Strada Graz (AU), Cultura Nova Heerlen (NL), Dansand/Kaap Oostende (B), Metropolis Copenhagen (DK), Schuur Haarlem (NL), Park Poetik Brussels (B), Theater op de Markt Hasselt (B), Boulevard Den Bosch (NL)
