Stage Production
Dark union
Premiere: 27/03/2018
In 2017, Iztok Kovač, the EnKnapGroup artistic director, extended his invitation to Nadj in hopes to see a revived version of Nadj’s first choreography, the legendary Canard pékinois (1987). Later, when Nadj met the six dancers, it became clear to him that he wants to pursue the idea of isolating...
Guy Nader and Maria Campos: LOOP DE LOOP and FALL SEVEN TIMES
Premiere: 11/06/2017
The compelling choreographic pair Guy Nader and Maria Campos, launched in 2015 by the international dance network Aerowaves, has been winning more and more recognition on the world dance scene with their specific motion vocabulary. Their choreography is marked by their high aesthetic level that blends...
SET AND RESET/Reset and CANARD PEKINOIS/Dark Union
Premiere: 08/06/2017
In collaboration with Trisha Brown Dance Company and Josef Nadj, EnKnapGroup presents a double bill that will take us into the 80’s by re-imagining two striking performances that shaped the contemporary dance as we know it.
Hellhound
Premiere: 03/03/2017
Performance for brave children (5+) Iztok Kovač has, together with the dancer of EnKnapGroup, created a new children’s performance named Hellhound. The performance, based on a children’s song written by Marijan Vodopivec, challenges the children to raise their courage – at home, at school or...
Pursuit of happiness
Premiere: 01/12/2016
Pursuit of Happiness was created by an American duo that, after nineteen years of collaborating and performing worldwide, became widely known for their epic series Life and Times. Their Nature Theater of Oklahoma from New York is one of the most renowned global names in theatre, which creates experimental,...
EnKnapGroup: ON THE EDGE
Premiere: 12/05/2016
After nine years and achieving artistic maturity, the international dance company EnKnapGroup are presenting the premiere of their latest production: a thrilling double bill created by three of the most prominent and sought-after new names in European dance. The dancers have co-created LOOP DE LOOP with...
Hungarian New Wave
Premiere: 14/01/2016
Two thrilling new solos, both by young performers and choreographers of Hungarian ancestry: Gyula Cserepes and Bence Mezei.
Wind, Sand and Stars
Premiere: 20/11/2015
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is more than just the grand pilot of The Little Prince. He is also the author of two extraordinary autobiographical novels. In an exceptional Slovenian translation by Edvard Kocbek, Night Flight (Vol de nuit, 1931) and Man and His World (Terre des hommes, 1939) were published...
Rainbow
Premiere: 09/09/2015
Light performance for children (Performance for children ages 4 to 7) In the original and in Slovenia unique performance Rainbow (Mavrica), the main characters are moving heads, who use light as their main means of expression. They express their opinions and feelings also by sometimes using sound,...
Phobia
Premiere: 21/05/2015
Dynamic, daring, unpolished, but also touching and humorous. Price winning choreographers Guy Weizman and Roni Haver (Club Guy & Roni) create powerful and seductive dance theatre. The last few years Club Guy & Roni produced several performances about extending borders. Their newest piece ‘Phobia’...
Take a Chance on Dance
Premiere: 05/03/2015
In 2015, Iztok Kovač and EnKnapGroup present TAKE A CHANCE ON DANCE, an internationally-oriented sequel of its 2010 hit performance Beware, Dance. The new performance retains the youthful formula of the original, which turned out to be a hit among by nearly 10,000 spectators – a unique achievement...
20th Century Fog
Premiere: 04/12/2014
Through archetypal dance, film and music matrices, the theatre-dance performance by one of the most renowned Slovenian playwrights, theatre directors and writers, Matjaž Zupančič, explores the paradoxes of art in the 20th century. The time of the eruption of new artistic practices and quests for new...
Ant Ferocious
Premiere: 16/05/2014
Once upon a time, there lived Ant Ferocious. She teased and bullied other ants while they were working, she burped and farted constantly, destroyed all the pots at the market, and attacked a bull – eating all of it, horns and all. But this sort of behavior did not bring her far in life. Soon, no one...
Double Bill by members of EnKnapGroup
Premiere: 13/02/2014
Members of the international dance company EnKnapGroup, based in Španski Borci Cultural Centre and existing for 6 years, set out in a duo and trio on an artistic journey along with students from the Academy of Visual Arts AVA, Ljubljana
Falcon!
Premiere: 15/10/2013
The solo performance How I Caught a Falcon (1991) by the choreographer Iztok Kovač is one of the milestones in the Slovenian contemporary dance production. The cult performance in which Iztok Kovač danced an incredibly poetic choreography, charged with beauty and a sublime, magic relationship between...
’68
Premiere: 27/09/2013
ROSANA HRIBAR & GREGOR LUŠTEK and CSABA MOLNÁR (double bill) Stop greedy capitalists! Enough with senseless wars! Stop discrimination! Money to the people, not to the banks! The slogans witnessed on the banners in the current protests have been used as early as in 1968. The world was in an uprising,...
“Theatre”
Premiere: 08/11/2012
The birth of perspective in fifteenth-century Italian painting is not all disconnected from political considerations. Art history has shown us that the first stage in the construction of perspective is not the definition of the vanishing point but the definition of the frame. Painters give us a “framed”...
OTTETTO (8 Swings for His Highness)
Premiere: 23/10/2012
The ’dance concert’ OTTETTO (8 Swings for His Highness) is built around Octet, a 16-minute musical delicacy by Igor Stravinsky from 1923, a purely structural composition void of any narrative meanings, which the composer himself called “dry, cold and transparent, like an ’extra dry’ champagne”....
Motion Pictures
Premiere: 28/09/2012
15 february in Španski Borci Cultural Centre! The multimedia performance Motion Pictures by Omar Ismail and Tamás Tuza joins dance, video projections and music. Life as a movie projected onto the screen and viewed as thousands of images of minute everyday feelings.
CTRL-ART-DEL
Premiere: 21/05/2012
The project CTRL-ART-DEL joins four independent pieces by members of EnKnapGroup: Gyula Cserepes, Tamás Tuza, Luke Thomas Dunne and Ana Štefanec. In four years, the group collaborated with 20 different Slovenian and international authors, created 13 performances and encountered a wide array of choreographic...
Not Made for Flying
Premiere: 17/10/2011
Our goals, aims and intentions contain superhuman potential, designed to lift us up out of our pedestrian lives and bring us closer to our ideals. And yet, our failures, our tragedies, and the moments we fall are perhaps the most heroic of all. With a cast of Superheroes with very good intentions who...
Project Touch
Premiere: 30/05/2011
The project deals with human interaction on the level of touch; an everyday experience related to comfort and communication. The aim is to explore the richness and complexities of touch between two friends, to reveal that which keeps us human.
S.K.I.N. - EKG
Premiere: 10/03/2011
The performance was inspired by Curzio Malaparte’s famous unnerving novel La pelle (The Skin), which takes place in Naples in 1943, as the city is transformed by defeat into an open-air market of duplicity, prostitution, and half-interred bodies, all of it overseen by Americans who in their star-spangled...
10 MIN
Premiere: 25/11/2010
10 MIN is a stage project initiated by EN-KNAP Productions that brings the dancers of EnKnapGroup together with eleven authors from the international contemporary performing art scene. The title captures the task which Iztok Kovač set before each author: to stage their personal view on the nature of...
Beware, Dance!
Premiere: 12/05/2010
After three years of theatre experience, dancers of EnKnapGroup presented a unique theatre event, revealing their performing maturity. Together with them Miha Brajnik leads us through landscapes and traps of contemporary dance in a humorous manner. Do you remember String and Sting, Vertigo Bird and Dom...
Cut Out
Premiere: 09/04/2009
One of the creative principles of theatre director Bojan Jablanovec is a reduction of theatre to the relationship between a performer and a spectator in a real time and space. Theatre show that wants to question this relationship demands of every performer to ask him or herself the following questions:...
Raw
Premiere: 09/04/2009
What are we like in our raw or natural form? What unites us? EnKnapGroup is seeking the answers together with Claudia de Serpa Soares in a new performace Surovo (Raw). The choreographer and dancers investigate the notion of emptiness, where every gesture, every move invokes a change that leads to...
Romeo and Public
Premiere: 16/12/2008
A project by Mala Kline, a clear new voice within the younger generation of the European dance authors, and Tomi Janežič, Slovene theatre director and exeptional interpreter of the Stanislavski`s and Grotowski`s methods, is about the theatre and its essential relationship between the performer and...
My Kingdom for a Horse
Premiere: 16/09/2008
A group of mature performers sets up a new choreography every evening, determined arbitrarily with the use of dice. They carry the history and trust in chance while EnKnapGroup confronts them with energetic predetermined sequences as an unstoppable force of structured conspiracy. The audience is engaged...
Order
Premiere: 18/04/2008
Well-composed, intense contemporary dance performance of mathematical precision, this work, set to the music of Igor Stravinsky, is created by Slovenia’s most productive choreographer of the last 20 years, Matjaž Farič.
Decision
Premiere: 17/04/2008
Bertolt Brecht`s teaching piece about the spread of communism in China has been banned for a long time and was staged in Germany only seven times. One of the most sought after young Slovene theatre directors, Sebastijan Horvat, took the risk of using this “forbidden text” and, by combining bodies...
In Between
Premiere: 26/11/2007
This high energy performance created on original score by Luigi Ceccareli and Gaetan van den Berg consists of two parts: The Earth and The Sky. Both bear the distinct signatures of Simone Sandroni and Lenka Flory, established choreographers and joint directors of Deja Donne dance company.
Celebration
Premiere: 27/09/2007
Kako ustvariti slovesno otvoritev na novo ustanovljene skupine? Z odpiranjem treh različnih prespektiv in dimenzij akta praznovanja – intimne, javne in sakralne – s povabilom treh En-Knapovih dolgoletnih sodelavcev: režiserja Saše Podgorška, koreografinje in plesalke Andreje Rauch ter ustanovitelja...
La Chute du Belzebub
Premiere: 29/12/2006
The performance explores the relationship between power and disorganisation. The author’s approach to the scene and the space introduces engagements of the actor and the dancer, movements and the actor’s silence. Disorganisation is a mental projection of poetic activity in a social context. It appears...
Masters of Time
Premiere: 13/11/2006
The performance Masters of Time pulls the romantic ballet thematic (Sleeping beauty, Swan lake and The Nutcracker; which are three basic terms of ballet classic) from its dance ‘cannon’ into the field of contemporary art. What is its fundamental operation? It actually uses a very basic gesture of...
Thirst
Premiere: 29/09/2006
Thirst, a physiological need, we feel it as an intensive inner state. Similar states lead the actors to the edge of radical; with it they open questions about human freedom and limitations. Stage language combines different physical techniques, from dance to acrobatics into a particular expression,...
Re-Play
Premiere: 05/07/2006
Re-play is a dance production that works with simple principles of memory and transposition. I’m interested by the attempt and the failures to re-embody the other. What does it feel to get in your skin? Where does it take us when I try to replay you and then you replay me…RE is a role that is available...
Passage delux
Premiere: 10/05/2006
I’m leaving the station and I’m returning to the station. Here we meet again and say good-bye. If I think how many encounters and partings happen in this space, it seems that the crowd of emotions is collecting like the waving of a slow crawling caterpillar. Probably it assembles the schedules of...
Solitaire
Premiere: 22/04/2006
Thematic focus of the performance refers to the relativity of individual`s perception and the meaning of loneliness in contemporary society. The work invokes the ancient Indian parable about five blind men who examined different parts of an elephant: it`s side, leg, trunk, tail, and ear... Unable to...
Sonoria
Premiere: 19/03/2006
»Sonoria« is an idea for a multi-dimensional sound installation in contrast with light and in relation with the expressive power of the human body. It is based on an abstract line developing from darkness, which contains forceful, emotionally charged sound compositions, into carefully designed light,...
Weavers
Premiere: 14/10/2005
Weavers is a display of four individual exhibits - situations presented in a sequence of four stories. Each of the four move before the viewer; each has its own name, and each establishes its own world, whilst one sacrifices its title for the sake of the entity. The first piece entitled Spring Water...
Sixteen Turns
Premiere: 19/09/2005
"What we cannot change, we have to at least describe." (Fassbinder) Sixteen turns is a theatre performance without performers which was borne out of the initiative of the light designer Jaka Šimenc who has worked in collaboration with Zavod EN-KNAP for many years. The performance is a logical extension...
Gallery of Dead Women
Premiere: 22/06/2005
Gallery of Dead Women is a stage installation created through a dialogue with Hamletmachine, writen by H. Müller. It explores the trinity of fiction-terror-politics and on the level of form inquires the possibilities of human response to it. Gallery of Dead Women is the manifestation of research...
Mozart – hype as I wanna be
Premiere: 11/02/2005
The performance Mozart – hype as I wanna be by Slovene choreographer Iztok Kovač and his international dance company En-Knap, uncovers the lid of history to release the ghost and the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In the bustle of high-powered and skillful combinations of six contemporary dancers...
Endless
Premiere: 10/12/2004
The dance performance Endless is an encounter between two of Kovač`s early choreographies: his solo How I Caught a Falcon , which was awarded the prestigious London Dance and Performance Award by Time Out magazine, and the performance Sting and String – First Touch , staged in 1996 with Boris...
HI-RES
Premiere: 02/10/2004
Love calls, marking a rise to verticality, a new clarity, a sharper resolution. When we expose ourselves to this light, we notice that our very presence casts a shadow, and we are tossed into a battle of projections. Yet, we remain closed to the world in a heart-tied, bound, and inexpressible body. We...
Rondinella
Premiere: 08/07/2004
Rondinella is a lyrical and mystic performance, inspired by musician Dario Marušić`s poem with the same title, a poem about the nostalgia for one`s home, landscape and the people one used to love and still does. Their second project as co-choreographers, dancers Maja Delak and Mala Kline collaborated...
Campo de Fiori
Premiere: 08/03/2004
The debut of Mala Kline, her solo performance Campo de` Fiori, takes the Renaissance period as a point of reference in the European history. The piece was inspired by the personality and thought of Giordano Bruno, magician, philosopher and scientist, sentenced to death due to his audacious criticism...
Chestnut Brown
Premiere: 09/01/2004
Andreja Rauch developes the scenes in Chestnut Brown like chapters of a book. Through this condensed structure, visual images and detailed initiations transform the spectator into a listener. The juxtaposition of bodily movement and structure of singing and speaking is at places evocative, with the essential...
S.K.I.N.
Premiere: 02/11/2003
The roots of the piece link back to a conversation about contemporary issues between Iztok Kovač and poet Uroš Zupan in which Malaparte’s novel »La pelle« was mentioned. It, among other sources became a shared reference for both Kovač and Hamilton during the creation process. This process continues...
Throw of the Dice
Premiere: 05/04/2003
Premiere: 05/04/2003 Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana Credits directed by Sašo Podgoršek choreography Iztok Kovač performed by: Iztok Kovač, Maja Delak, Juho Saarinen, Rebecca Murgi, Bratko Bibič, Mala Kline, Aleš Hadalin, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Nataša Kos, Michael...
Mezzanino
Premiere: 20/12/2002
The stage represents a bright reflection where one confronts one’s own double, the wild place of transformations and recognitions. It is like a pond in which the Narcissus sees himself and like the deep forest, in which the voice of Echo is lost in resonance.
Rebeka
Premiere: 10/06/2002
The performance speaks about a woman`s character, initiated from a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hundred Years of Solitude. The portray of Rebeka is exposed through situations in different scenes, setting and relationships between the performers and their mediums: dance, music and text. During...
HU DIE
Premiere: 05/12/2001
The creative initiative as well as the basis for communication between the participating artists in the HU DIE project arose from the music project by John Zorn: New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands from 1997. Participating in Zorn`s project were brilliant musicians Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Joey Baron,...
6agon
Premiere: 18/06/2001
In today`s flow of expectations, life demands that people are strong, that they hide in their sadness, where sadness is seen as a negative emotion. The mourning ritual brings a catharsis, it is a ritual through which mourners released their anguish and take time to get over their loss. Exercise your...
Perfect step?
Premiere: 01/02/2001
Although dance technique as a dogma is not as central and crucial as it used to be in organisation and creation of ballet, step is still the basic element of dance and therefore in a way its synonym. The first tractate on correct position of dancer`s feet dates back to 1589; in 1725 choreographer Charles-Luis...
Emanatio Protei
Premiere: 20/01/2000
Emanatio Protei is the evening comprising two performances entitled Mo/Ten/Tion and Kaktus Unter Strom which belong to the three top artists: choreographer and dancer Iztok Kovac and composers Uros Rojko and Vinko Globokar.The work of Iztok Kovac and his dance group EN-KNAP is based on the well-established...
Gina & Miovanni
Premiere: 27/05/1999
When Mina Loy published her first poetry collection in Paris in the twenties, no one believed that she was not a fictional character. Years later, when literary critics took her forgotten poetry under their magnifying glass, they wondered whether the words she used in her work were invented or perhaps...
Far from sleeping Dogs
Premiere: 15/04/1999
The first contact with Globokar’s socially aware and critical poise, with his uncompromising explorations and experimentation with sound, happens in a place representing a mythical source and a constant scenography of Kovac’s movie projects directed by Saso Podgorsek - in Trbovlje, within the worn-out...
Codes of Cobra
Premiere: 19/04/1997
The point of deparutre for Codes of Cobra is Trbovlje. Iztok Kovač`s birthplace. Trbovlje is a mining town in industiral Slovenia that for Kovač simbolizes the mythical essence of Eastern Europe. Kovač blends his collaborative film work, which includes an extraordinara mix of internaional dancers,...
Sting and String - First Touch
Premiere: 10/01/1996
The basic antagonism, which both generates and control all others, is subsumed in the question who the choreographer is and what role she/he plays in a contemporary dance performance. Is the choreographer that meditative, creative entity of genius, a universal autonomous mind who composes a work of art...
Spread Your Wings (You Clumsy Elephant)
Premiere: 12/10/1993
Spread Your Wings ia a performance of surprises. Its unpredictable originality surpasses everything we have seen on our dance and dance-and-theater scene, while its methodology of craft, and the seeming dramaturgic looseness and confusion interfere with the essence of choreography as such. What are the...
How I Caught a Falcon
Premiere: 16/01/1991
Under a cascade of white light Iztok Kovac begins and ends his solo: an image of himself as a falcon. He spins his arms with such a speed that they look like blurred bows. A vision of a man, who transcends his limitations and – during most of the performance – strings dance strategies, with which...