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The international dance group En- Knap was founded in 1993, by Iztok Kovač in Leuven in Belgium under the wings of the production managing house Stuc and the Klapstuk Festival. A year later the group moved its headquarters to Ljubljana , where it established as EN-KNAP dance company. The program of EN-KNAP is among other international coproducers from its beginnings financially supported by the Slovene Ministry of Culture and by the City Council of Ljubljana - Departement for Culture.
16 YEARS
Root - Trbovlje
41 dance performances and 10 other projects
5 dance films and 6 documentaries
more than 50 international and Slovene co-producers
more than 20 Slovene and international awards
more than 400 guest performances in more than 30 countries around the world
works from more than 21 authors
education programs and publishing activity
more than 400 collaborators, chosen on
more than 80 international auditions and workshops
in which more than 3000 dancers from all over the world participated
Root - Trbovlje
While it seems that Kovač's beginnings were quite ordinary, they are nevertheless particular and important for the formation of his specific aesthetics and their relation to stage presence. Already his first independent performances in the mid-eighties reveal that he did not forget his dance history, just like he did not forget the experience and historical weight of his birthplace - Trbovlje, whose revolutionary working class sentiment has deeply influenced Kovač's attitudes to the body and the formation of dance aesthetics. He joined this experience with that of contemporary dance spaces in urban European metropolises, with which he had become a familiar and integral part of, after his departure from Slovenia to go abroad at the end of the eighties.
Bojana Kunst
Iztok Kovač has frequently stated that to him growing up within the mental framework of socialism represents the absolute orientation point of communication with different worlds, with which he comes in contanct in his private and professional life. In his work, the point of reference is often his home-town Trbovlje – a mining town, and at the same time the Slovene symbol of grey, polluted and forsaken landscape of socialist heavy industry. His returns to his his-home town should not be understood merely as nostalgia or personal sentimentality, but as a return to the source of his own physical constitution, which was formed when surrounded by the bodies of workers and miners, in the alternating rhythm of work and test, in the environment constantly reminding one of the irreconcilable confilict between civilization and nature. However. In Kovač's choreography, the rural body of Trbovlje is constatly transformed and juxtaposed with the urban body of European towns, thus forming a third aesthetically cultivated body – the body of a dancer, the body of the group, and in the end – the body of every performance.
Eda Čufer
Stage production
Raw (Claudia de Serpa Soares, 2009)
Cut Out (Bojan Jablanovec, 2009)
Romeo and Public 1 (Mala Kline, 2008)
Romeo and Public 2 ( Tomi Janežič, 2008)
My Kingdom For A Horse (Iztok Kovač, 2008)
Order (Matjaž Farič, 2008)
Decision (Sebastijan Horvat, 2008)
In Between - Earth (Lenka Flory, 2007)
In Between - Sky (Simone Sandroni, 2007)
Celebration - Religion (Iztok Kovač, 2007)
Celebration - Family (Sašo Podgoršek, 2007)
Celebration - State (Andreja Rauch, 2007)
Masters of Time (Iztok Kovač, 2007)
La Chute du Belzebub (Denes Debrei, 2007)
Passage delux (Andreja Rauch, 2006)
Thirst (Ana Stegnar, 2006)
Re-play (Yasmine Hugonnet, 2006)
Sonoria (Hanna Preuss, 2006)
Solitaire (Iztok Kovač, 2006)
Sixteen Turns (Jaka Šimenc, 2005)
Gallery of Dead Women (Maja Delak, 2005)
Mozart – Hype as I wanna be (Iztok Kovač, 2005)
Weavers (Andreja Rauch, 2005)
HI-RES (Maja Delak, Mala Kline, 2004)
Endless (Iztok Kovač 2004)
Rondinella (Maja Delak, Mala Kline, 2004)
Chesnut Brown (Andreja Rauch, 2004)
Campo de' Fiori (Mala Kline, 2004)
6agon (Maja Delak, 2001)
S.K.I.N. (Iztok Kovač, Julyen Hamilton, 2003)
Throw of the Dice (Iztok Kovač, 2003)
Rebeka (Andreja Rauch, 2002)
Mezzanino (Maja Delak, 2002)
HU DIE (Iztok Kovač, Julyen Hamilton, Denes Debrei, 2001)
Perfect Step? (Iztok Kovač, 2001)
Emanatio Protei (Iztok Kovač, 2000)
Gina & Miovanni (Maja Delak, 1999)
Far from Sleeping Dogs (Iztok Kovač, 1999)
Codes of Cobra (Iztok Kovač, 1997)
Sting and String – First Touch (Iztok Kovač, 1996)
Spread Your Wings (You Clumsy Elephant) (Iztok Kovač, 1993)
Dance films
What are you going to do when you come out of here? (Sašo Podgoršek, 2006)
Taming the Time (Dan Oki, 2002)
Dom Svobode (Sašo Podgoršek, 2000)
Vertigo Bird (Sašo Podgoršek, 1996)
Narava Beso (Iztok Kovač, Patrik Otten, 1995)
Documentaries
Under their Skin (Vlado Škafar, 2005)
From Falcon to Diva (Sašo Podgoršek, 2003)
Dokcument of Freedom (Sašo Podgoršek, 2000)
Far from Sleeping Dogs (Sašo Podgoršek, 1999)
En-Knap Open (Sašo Podgoršek, 1997)
En-Knap – More Bodies (Sašo Podgoršek, 1996)
Other projects
120 years of electrification, Elektro Ljubljana (2007)
Pred-premiere '06 (2006)
Pred-premiere '05 (2005)
Pred-premiere '04 (2004)
National celebration of the Slovenian statehood day (2005)
Concerts (Anne Marie Blink, 2005)
Kresnik award (2004)
Blondinka na mestu (Maja Delak, Mala Kline, 2004)
Opening of the Viba film studio (2003)
Opening of the Delo printing house (1999)
Education
Beside the continuous stage and film production, En-Knap also organizes dance education activities since 1997; later developing into a department of the High school for pedagogy and gymnasium Ljubljana called the Secondary dance school for contemporary dance, as well as the educational program AGON, run by Maja Delak and later Mala Kline. With the support of Culture 2000, the international project CIMET is realized successfully with partners from Salzburg, Ancona, Novi Sad and Pulj.
Also after the establishment of EnKnapGroup, En-Knap organization continues building educational programs, wanting to create a group of younger dancers, ex-students of Secondary school for contemporary dance, from which new generations of dancers and choreographers will grow. The organization will strongly aspire to popularize contemporary dance among high school and university students.
Publishing activities
EN-KNAP production establishes a book collection Passages. The collection steps into the field of current problems, discourses of artistic and humanistic processes from the perspective of the flow of cultural and humanistic researches and activities, as well as formulation of contemporary cultural identities and theories. The chosen titles of the collection mainly want to support dance research and offer dance to express itself through the contents of current clashes and search in new media and in relation to it, and in that way to forward its creative drive. The editors of the collection are Maja Delak and Mala Kline.
Awards
London Dance and Performance Award, 1993 (London, Great Britain)
Awarded for solo “How I Caught a Falcon” by Time Out Magazine. This award for visiting artists in 1993 was also given to Merce Cunningham and Ron Vawter (Wooster Group).
Grand Prix International Video Dance ,1994 (Stockholm, Sweden)
Jury's special award for the video “How I Caught a Falcon”.
"Prešeren Fundation Award", 1994 (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Granted for the choreography and interpretation of “How I Caught a Falcon” and “Spread Your Wings (you clumsy Elephant)”. These is the highest national award in the field of arts, chosen and granted by the Ministry of Culture.
Suzanne Dellal International Dance Competition, 1996 (Tel Aviv, Israel)
First prize for the best choreography for performance “Sting and String - first touch”.
"Tončka Čeč Award", 1997 (Trbovlje, Slovenia)
Granted for accomplishments in the fields of arts and culture.
Art Film International Festival , 1997 ( Trenčianske Teplice, Slovakia)
Award of the Mayor of Trenčin for the film “Vertigo Bird”.
6th Slovenian Film Marathon, 1997 ( Portorož, Slovenia)
Best Slovene film of the year. Award to the authors of the film “Vertigo Bird”.
Grand Prix International Video Dance,1997 (Stockholm, Sweden)
First prize in the Video Dance category for the film “Narava Beso”.
Springdance Cinema Award, 1998 (Utrecht, Nederland)
Special Jury Announcement for the film “Vertigo Bird”.
3rd Slovenian Film Festival, 2000 ( Portorož, Slovenia)
Award for best editing for film “Dom Svobode”.
Art Film International Festival, 2000 ( Trenčianske Teplice, Slovakia)
Golden Key - award for the best artistic film for the film “Dom Svobode”.
8th Slovenian film festival 2005
Award for Best Medium-Length Film,
Special Achievement Award for the best Editing,
Kodak Award for Best Cinematography
for film “What Are You Going To Do When You Get Out Of Here?«
Silver plaque award from Slovenian Public Fund for Cultural Activities, 2006 (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Granted for extraordinarily achievements in the fields of contemporary dance
Viktorji 2006 (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Awared for the best documentary of the year, for “What Are You Going To Do When You Get Out Of Here"
Gibanica 2007 (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
First prize for the best performance of the festival for»Weavers«. (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Coproducers
BRTN (Belgium)
Bunker, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Channel 4 – LWT, London (Great Britain)
Charleroi Dances (Belgium)
CNDC/L Esquisse, Angers (France)
DanceWeb Europe/Ultima Vez, Brussels (Belgium)
DBM (Dance Basin Mediterranea)
DEJA DONNE (Italy)
Exodos (Slovenia)
Filmski sklad RS (Slovenia)
Heinrich-Strobel Fundation, Freiburg (Germany)
Hebbel-Theater, Berlin (Germany)
Inart center, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Inteatro, Ancona (Italy)
Istra Etno Jazz festival (Croatia)
Joint Adventures, München (Germany)
Kc nOna, Mechelen (Belgium)
Klapstuk festival, Leuven (Belgium)
KVS, Brussels (Belgium)
La Filature, Mulhouse (France)
LDP, Seoul (South Korea)
Les 39 Marches association (France)
Luzerntanz am Luzerntheater (Switzerland)
Map XXL (Belgium)
Mesto žensk, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Mousonturm, Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
Muza Dance Company, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Pepinieres Europennes (France)
Physical Recall Dance Company, London (Great Britain)
Podewil/Tanzwerkstadt, Berlin (Germany)
PTL, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Sead, Salzburg (Austria)
SLKD Ptuj (Slovenia)
SNG Maribor (Slovenia)
Springdance festival, Utrecht (Netherlands)
Szene Theater, Salzburg (Avstrija)
TANZ Bremen 2001 (Germany)
The European Commission (programme Kaleidoscope)
The European Commission (programme Culture 2000)
The Place Theatre, London (Great Britain)
Theatre de la Balsamine, Brussels (Belgium)
TV Slovenija (Slovenia)
Univerza Novi Sad – program Body Unlimited (Serbia)
Un De Sens assciation (France)
Vooruit, Gent (Belgium)
Zagrebački plesni ansambel, Zagreb (Croatia)
ZeKaeM, Zagreb (Croatia)
ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Yanvii associazione (Italy)
Tourings
Albania (Durres)
Austria (Vienna, Salzburg, Linz, Klagenfurt)
Australia (Sydney, Pert)
Belgium (Brussels, Leuven, Antwerpen, Kortrijk, Gent, Charleroi)
Bosna and Hercegovina (Sarajevo)
Brazil (Sao Paolo, Belo Horizonte)
Czech Republic (Praga, Brno)
Denmark (Kopenhagen)
Estonia (Rakvere)
Finland (Helsinki)
France (Paris, Dieppe, Strasbourg, Rouen, Metz, Mulhouse, Cahors, Lyon)
Croatia (Zagreb, Zadar, Slavonska Požega, Svetvinčenat, Pulj, Split)
Italy (Rome, Cagliari, Čedad, Bolzano, Palermo, Videm, Pesaro, Gorica, San Remo)
Israel (Tel-Aviv)
Canada (Montreal, Toronto)
Luxemburg (Luxemburg)
Hungary (Budapest)
Germany (Berlin, München, Weimar, Potsdam, Bremen, Freiburg, Hamburg, Kassel, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Köln, Oberhausen, Leipzig)
Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den-Haag, Utrecht, Den-Bosch)
Norway(Oslo)
Poland (Warszawa, Bytom)
Russia (Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Kostroma, St. Peterburg)
Serbia (Novi Sad)
Slovakia (Bratislava, Trenčianske Teplice, Nytra)
South Korea (Seul, Pohang)
Slovenia (Ljubljana, Maribor, Trbovlje, Koper, Murska Sobota, Kamnik, Hrastnik, Medana, Portorož, Velenje, Ptuj, Zagorje, Sežana, Cerknica, Novo mesto)
Spain (Madrid, San Sebastiane, Navarro)
Sweden (Stockholm)
Switzerland (Zürich, Luzern, Geneve)
Scotland (Glasgow)
Turkey (Ankara)
Urugvai (Montevideo)
Great Britain (London)
USA (New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston)
Auditions
Trbovlje, 26.–30.8.1992 (Slovenia)
Freiburg, 9.10.1992 (Germany)
Zagreb, 22.10.1992 (Croatia)
Helsinki, 4.11.1992 (Finland)
Leuven, 28.–29.11.1992 (Belgium)
Amsterdam, 30.11.1992 (Netherlands)
Leuven, 2.12.1992 (Belgium)
Zürich, 7.12.1992 (Switzerland)
Ljubljana, 22.12.1992 (Slovenia)
New York, 17.1.1993 (USA)
London, 24.1.1993 (Great Britain)
Madrid, 30.1.1993 (Spain)
Leuven, 11.–13. 3. 1993 (Belgium)
Leuven, 5.4.1993 (Belgium)
Barcelona, 8.5.1993, (Spain)
Paris, 23.5.1993 (France)
Leuven, 11.12.1993 (Belgium)
Berlin, 19.12.1993 (Germany)
Leuven, 31.1.1994 (Belgium)
Amsterdam, 4.2.1994 (Netherlands)
Rome, 3. 10. 1994 (Italy)
Ljubljana, 15.10.1994 (Slovenia)
Kassel, 29.10.1994 (Germany)
Arnhem, 1.11.1994 (Netherlands)
Leuven, 10.11.1994 (Belgium)
Budapest, 24 –25.11.1994 (Hungary)
Ljubljana, 24.8.1995 (Slovenia)
Amsterdam, 16.9.1995 (Netherlands)
London, 4.11.1996 (Great Britain)
Glasgow, 9.3.1996 (Great Britain)
Berlin, 15.4.1996 (Germany)
London, 1.5.1996 (Great Britain)
Praga, 2.7.1996 (Czech Republic)
Frankfurt, 7.7.1996 (Germany)
Cagliari, 11.10.1996 (Italy)
Tel Aviv 21.10.1996 (Israel)
Tel Aviv 24.10.1996 (Israel)
Zürich, 14.11.1996 (Switzerland)
Budapest, 10.12.1996 (Hungary)
Amsterdam, 24.10.1998 (Netherlands)
Paris, 15.10.1998 (France)
Brussels, 18.10.1998 (Belgium)
Ljubljana, 22–23.11.1998 (Slovenia)
Tel Aviv 7.5.1998 (Israel)
London, 21.–22.8.1999 (Great Britain)
München, 4.8 2000 (Germany)
München, 29.7 2001 (Germany)
Tel Aviv, 2312.2002 (Israel)
London, 15.12.2003 (Great Britain)
Ljubljana, 20.–22.2.2004 (Slovenia)
Seoul, 23.8.2004 (South Korea)
Berlin, 12.–14.9.2004 (Germany)
Zagreb, 8.–9.11.2005 (Croatia)
Ljubljana, 12.–14.12.2005 (Slovenia)
Maribor, 9.–10.1.2006 (Slovenia)
Ljubljana, 5.– 6.5.2007 (Slovenia)
Ljubljana, 19.5 2007 (Slovenia)
Ljubljana, 26.– 7.5.2007 (Slovenia)
Budapest, 25.–26.5.2008 (Hungary)
Ljubljana, 22.–23.11.2008 (Slovenia)
Workshops
Leuven, 15. – 27.3.1993 (Belgium)
Amsterdam, 14.–16.5.1994 (Netherlands)
Belo Horizonte, 21.–23.11.1996 (Brazil)
São Pãolo, 26.–27.11.1996 (Brazil)
Budapest, 10.12.1996 (Hungary)
München, 29.7.– 9. 8.1997 (Germany)
Paris, 3.–16.11.1997 (France)
Essen, 1.–14.7.1998 (Germany)
London, 23.–30.9.1998 (Great Britain)
Bremen, 30.–31.1.1999 (Germany)
München, 29.7.–8.8.1999 (Germany)
Brussels, 8.–15.4.2000 (Belgium)
Monodendri, 14.–20.7.2000 (Greece)
Tel Aviv, 22.–27.7.2000 (Israel)
München, 28.7.– 6.8.2000 (Germany)
Ankara, 16.3.2001 (Turkey)
München, 9.–13.6.2001 (Germany)
München, 18.–22.6.2001 (Germany)
Buenos Aires 20.–25.8.2001 (Argentine)
München, 13.–23.9.2001 (Germany)
Berlin, 10.1.–3.2.2002 (Germany)
Rakvere, 16.–17.6.2002 (Estonia)
Haifa 8.–17.7.2002 (Israel)
Ljubljana, 21.–24.8.2003 (Slovenia)
Novi Sad, 24.5.–1.6.2004 (Serbia)
Moscow, 24.7.– 7.8.2005 (Russia)
Krasnoyarsk, 1.–4.5.2006 (Russia)
Casina Settarte 17.–23.8.2006 (Italy)
Pohang, 12.9.2006 (South Korea)
Tel Aviv, 31.5.–2.6.2007 (Israel)
Tel Aviv, 19.– 23.8.2007 (Israel)
Udine, 6.–8.12.2008 (Italy)
Ljubljana, 6. - 9. 6. 2009 (Slovenia)
Brussels, 14. - 19. 6. 2009 (Belgium)
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