The Smallest Entrance – Rituals of Movement and Space
The Smallest Entrance – Rituals of Movement and Space
One-day intensive workshop with David Somló.
This full-day intensive is designed for artists from diverse backgrounds who are interested in exploring the intersection of participatory performance, public space, and ritual-based practice. Rooted in the ongoing project The Smallest Entrance, the workshop proposes a series of shared investigations into how minimal, collective actions can open up heightened states of presence, relationality, and transformation in everyday contexts.
The workshop is presented in close collaboration with Helsingør Teater and PASSAGE Festival as a part of the European collaboration project “Green Streets of Europe”, co-funded by the European Union.
We are grateful for the generosity of the PASSAGE team and for this collaboration.
Throughout the day, participants will engage in a variety of performative movement meditation practices, instruction-based group actions, spatial sound explorations, and generative walking scores. These exercises will be interwoven with short theoretical inputs—drawing from performance theory, ritual studies, and relational aesthetics—serving as both grounding and provocation.
We will also engage in site-specific and public space exercises, using the immediate surroundings as a testing ground for subtle interventions that invite new modes of attention, encounter, and collectivity. The focus will be on experimentation, embodied research, and shared reflection, allowing space for participants to bring in their own artistic lenses and questions.
This workshop offers a framework for those who are curious about developing ritual-based formats, working with instruction scores, or simply rethinking the performative potential of presence in public space.
No prior performance experience is required—just curiosity, openness, and willingness to pay attention together.
Hungarian performance maker and sound artist based in Budapest, who focuses on spatial-relational practices (www.davidsomlo.com).
By using simple elements, structures, and instructions, he composes performative experiences that evoke connectedness with one’s attention, body, surroundings, and the people around them. In other words, he aims to create profound experiences from the things that are already there.
All his works require active participation to varying degrees—ranging from pieces centered around audience interaction to situations that invite high-intensity contemplation on the nuances of the perception. He aims to create frameworks where there are no right or wrong decisions, allowing the actions of the audience to manifest in a deep personal and human way.
Somló’s performances, installations, and interventions have appeared in diverse locations, including foot tunnels, underground stations, public squares, forests, Turkish baths, abandoned offices and factories, mining museums, synagogue gardens, ancient monuments, and private flats. These works fully immerse the audience, offering spaces to experience collective presence and attention.
Dávid Somló holds an Mmus in Creative Composition from Goldsmiths College, London and an MA in Sociology from ELTE, Budapest and finished his Phd-in-practice research at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
His dissertation, titled ‘Transdisciplinary Approaches of Spatiality in Performance’, explores the compositional and performative aspects of spatiality.
He has been holding workshops internationally and is one of the lead teacher of the Performance Studies course at the FreeSZFE, teaching site-specific practices, interdisciplinary composition and the performativity of sound.
