Nik Rajšek: KINK - performance 19.9.2026.
As part of the September edition of San Vincenti Dances, we will welcome Slovenian performer and maker Nik Rajšek with *KINK*, one of the twenty works selected for Aerowaves Twenty26. In this solo, Rajšek explores control and its loss, the relationship between dominance and surrender, and the tension that emerges between the performer and the audience’s gaze.
19 September 2026 at 20h
Mediterranean Dance Center, Svetvinčenat
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
KINK is a solo about control: craving it, resisting it, losing it. It explores control on stage as both a driving force and a point of collapse. The body twists, retreats and asserts itself in a constant tension between dominance and surrender.
Movement and music take turns leading, shaping each other in a shifting dialogue. Being watched becomes both threat and thrill, a response to the discomfort of exposure and the secret pleasure of wanting more. In KINK, Nik Rajšek invites the audience into a teasing power dynamic where control is questioned, shared and continually redefined.
Choreography and performance: Nik Rajšek
Music: João Brito
Lighting design: Nik Rajšek, Wil Frikken
Costume: Tania Ballvé
Creative producer: Moreen Beentjes
Video/Registration: Jelmer Buitenga/OOSTBLOK
Co-production: Grand Theatre Groningen, Ward/Ward
With support from: Station Noord
Special thanks to: Roni Haver, Angela Herenda, Adam Peterson
Duration: 30 minutes
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nik Rajšek (1993) is a Slovenian performer and maker based in the Netherlands. After graduating from the Modern Theatre Dance programme at AHK, Amsterdam in 2015, he collaborated with various choreographers, most notably Ann Van den Broek.
In recent years, Nik has begun developing his own artistic voice, creating a series of solo works that explore his personal approach to performance, movement and film. In 2025, he became one of the artists of Station Noord, a network and development programme for emerging makers in the northern Netherlands.
Rather than focusing solely on dance or choreography, he explores what it means to perform and how we form a relationship with those who watch. He searches for moments in which both he and the audience move beyond the surface of movement and enter the pure, raw emotion that lies beneath. In those moments, the boundary between performer and spectator dissolves, breaking the fourth wall and opening a space of shared emotion, vulnerability, and mutual understanding or conflict.
Nik Rajšek has been selected by the European platform Aerowaves for KINK as part of Aerowaves Twenty26. Aerowaves is co-funded by the Creative Europe Platform Programme for the promotion of emerging artists of the European Commission.