Ana Štefanec Knez began her dance education in Celje, at Plesni Forum Celje, as a young girl initially as a part of training for figure skating. After she continued her learning in Ljubljana at High School for Contemporary dance. On various occasions she was trained by many local and foreign teachers, such as Maja Delak, Mala Kline, Fred Lassere, Frey Faust, Snježana Premuš, Matej Kejžar, Gregor Kamnikar, Rebecca Murgi, Christine Kono and others. She received numerous awards for choreographic and dancing durring her career at home and abroad. From 2007 till 2019 was a part of dance group En Knap Group as a dancer where she created, co-created and colaborated with more than 50 Slovenian and foreign authors. Since 2020 she is a member of En Knap Group as a rehearsal director.
What Remains is an interdisciplinary multimedia performance intertwining movement/dance, film, music and literature. It found conceptual bases in Romain Gary’s novel La vie devant soi (written under the pseudnym Emile Ajar). However, it is not an adaptation of the novel but rather functions complementary to it within a scope of different media, as an addition to the novel, as an invented extra chapter. The film and dance conjure up on the stage a mesh up of reality, dreams, memories and fantasies. It is through the latter that tre traces of both horror and beauty, both inevitably connected, are drawn up.