Iztok Kovač is a choreographer and founder of En–Knap. Following the international success of his solo How I Caught a Falcon (1991), he became one of the key figures in the development of Slovenian contemporary dance. He founded En–Knap Group, Slovenia's first permanent contemporary dance ensemble, and serves as artistic director of both En–Knap and the Španski borci Cultural Centre. His works have toured internationally for more than three decades. Additionally, his artistic practice includes six dance films, international pedagogical work, guest choreography and the direction of major national events in Slovenia. During the Covid period, he initiated Stage360, developing dance works in virtual reality.
How to understand, but also see oneself and the world in a different light – by way of authentic expression in movement? Following the hit documentary parable piece Beware, Dance! (2010), and the romp and stomp across the history of contemporary dance Take a Chance on Dance (2015), Beware, Dance 3 (2019) integrates, reworks and revamps its precursors into a participatory journey of discovery and pedagogy, reaching out to youth and their proclivity for audio-visual media.
Beware, Dance 3 takes up the identity of expression in movement, the search for artistic purpose and the secrets of composition in movement through some of the pivotal moments in contemporary dance. The parable piece also takes on the private life of a dancer and the origin story of dance – ritual, music, identity, storytelling. At its core, the show – and it is a show – ushers contemporary dance for generations of audiences, emancipating dance into art through the gift of artistry, all while bridging the gap between institutional education and performing arts.