Production
HOMELAND
Premiere: 19/05/2021
After a long and unpredictable hiatus we returning in style, with the premiere of the dance performance HOMELAND, choreographed by Iztok Kovač and the dancers of the EN-KNAP Group and in collaboration with Australian composer CathyMilliken and singer Michael Schiefel.
COGITO
Premiere: 24/02/2021
We are announcing EN-KNAP’s first online show, COGITO by Tamás Tuza, a core member of EN-KNAP Group since 2010. The piece, created collectively by the whole group, Cogito, opens a window into the complexities of thought and thinking, body and mind, doubts and certainties, all inspired by Descartes’...
SUPERFLUOUS
Premiere: 15/10/2020
March 2020 Cultural institutions and theatres around the world are closing their doors. Now what? Despite the limitations of isolation, the dancers of the EN-KNAP Group continue their creative work - not as a group in a studio, but as a group, each from home. They discover new ways to further create,...
MILK Voices
12/09/2020
September 12th, 2020 sees the launch of the new season at Španski Borci cultural Centre, marked by our latest international music and dance project MILK Voices, co-produced by EN-KNAP Productions and Goethe institute. This is a product of collaboration between EN-KNAP Group, the only permanent contemporary...
Vertigo Birds
Premiere: 05/12/2019
The process of creating the newest Iztok Kovač’s production, this full-evening performance with EN-KNAP Group, was based on his early piece and film from the mid 90’s and on numerous discussions about our place in the society and our identity thus connecting us to the past, the present and the future...
OHO (children’s show 5+)
Premiere: 06/06/2019
There’s no shame in being afraid or awkward Everything that comes down, soon turns upward Up and down, and up and down Everyone’s right and no one’s a clown Mr. Balloon and Ms. Baloonette Only know not to come near a wolf’s fang Because, as every child knows, A balloon and a wolf equals...
Beware, dance 3!
Premiere: 25/04/2019
Iztok Kovač and Luke Thomas Dunne present the production of EN-KNAP, "Beware, Dance 3", the third installment in the popular series reaching back to 2010. This was the year EN-KNAP first developed the concept of an educational performance targeted at the young which would familiarise them with questions...
Dark union
Premiere: 27/03/2018
In 2017, Iztok Kovač, the EN-KNAP Group 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,...
Time Takes the Time Time Takes
05/02/2016
TIME TAKES THE TIME TIME TAKES is a physical dynamic conversation through repetitive movement using a pendulum motif that embodies the mechanisms measuring time and space.
Trisha Brown Dance Company: Proscenium Works (1979-2011)
20/10/2015
The American dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown pushed the limits of choreography and changed modern dance forever. In 1960s she was instantly immersed in what was to become the post-modern phenomena of Judson Dance Theater, and her movement investigations found the extraordinary in the everyday and...
Black Out
25/09/2015
Opting for an unusual stage set-up, Philippe Saire has the audience looking down from all four sides of a black box, 2.5 m. high. In this cube, this “lions’ den”, three dancers perform, delivered up to our gaze, making them appear very near at times, and at others far away. Under our very eyes,...
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,...
Adrienn Hód/Hodworks: Conditions for Being a Mortal
Premiere: 12/01/2015
Španski Borci Cultural Centre, 27/01/2015, 20:00
Dawn
12/01/2015
In a bold and radical performative research Dawn, at the forefront of the entire show are the naked bodies of the dancers. The performance requires of the dancers an extremely high level of awareness, strength and sensitivity, as is expected from the Hungarian choreographer Adrienn Hod.
Vašhava
Premiere: 01/09/2014
The workers’ and mining facilities, characterising and changing the Slovenian mining town of Trbovlje for almost two centuries, which have already been captured on camera in the previous films shot by EN-KNAP, have to face uncertain future and the possibility of impending demolition.
Speaking Dance
03/06/2014
One of the leading British choreographers Jonathan Burrows, together with the Italian performer and musician Matteo Fargion, created a duet in which the authors with extreme precision and poetry devote to the the idea of dance that they describe and that you can hear, but never see.
V.O.+
10/05/2014
In latest performace V.O.+, the leading Spanish choreographer and dancer Cesc Gelabert, performs 3 solos, and for this occasion re- interprets some old work. Look into the past to face the future. Gelabert , one of the most influential Spanish choreographers and dancers , thus returns to the heart, to...
Bound (1982)
10/04/2014
The famous American experimental choreographer and dancer Steve Paxton presented his acclaimed solo Bound thirty years after the creation together with Slovenian dancer Jurij Konjar .
Lectures by Steve Paxton
10/04/2014
During his stay in Ljubljana within Jurij Konjar’s pefrormance of his Bound (17 April at 8 pm, Španski Borci), the influential dancer and choreographer Steve Paxton wil also give two lectures. The lectures will take place in the Španski Borci Main Hall on Sunday 13 April,...
The Immaterial World
13/02/2014
"This is my take on the beyond as it resides right in the here and now. It is both eerie and assuring; it wavers calmly on the edge of perception and understanding. It provides little reference except the movement of and the sounds from the body. Welcome to the Immaterial World." (Julyen Hamilton) Julyen...
Anything
09/01/2014
Anything is a choreographic work for six dancers of the Zagreb Dance Company. The piece focuses on the idea that anything could happen in our life in the period between birth and death.
5th Plesna NACIONALA
29/11/2013
Through short excerpts from performances or projects in development, Plesna NACIONALA, Slovenian national dance gathering, will showcase the characteristics, views, ideas and potentials of Slovenian contemporary dance.
Stocos
26/11/2013
Stocos is the third part of a trilogy focusing on the analysis and development of interaction between the sonic gesture and dance gesture inside three dimensional sound spaces. In this new piece Muriel Romero and Pablo Palacio collaborate with media artist and artificial intelligence researcher Daniel...
EN-KNAP 20 YEARS: 11-26 May 2013
16/04/2013
In May 2013, EN-KNAP will celebrate 20 Years of vertiginous fliying over the Slovenian and international dance landscape. At the occassion, EN-KNAP will remind us of its roots in Belgium, where the international dance company En-Knap was established by Iztok Kovač within Klapstuk Festival in 1993. The...
“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”...
4th National Contemporary Dance Gathering - Plesna Nacionala
Premiere: 25/10/2012
EN-KNAP and Španski borci Cultural Centre in collaboration with Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia have invited all artists and creators in contemporary dance to present their work at the 4th National Contemporary Dance Gathering - Plesna Nacionala, which will take place on Saturday 27 October...
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.
A.lter S.essio
21/09/2012
A.lter S.essio’s artistic director is Fabrice Planquette. Each project is the result of a specific research, interdisciplinary and jointly among the team. Three elements are simultaneously developed : sound, image and body. A fight that question situations of loss (balance, bearings, control, identity)...
Basse Danse
Premiere: 15/09/2012
Basse danse is a dance card, a strict schedule of music and movements. Basse danse is a space in between - in between theatre and an abandoned place. Basse danse is that very fraction of time in which you allow yourself to shift from one reality to the other. In between freedom and constraint, superfluity...
Por Sal y Samba
15/09/2012
Por Sal y Samba is a duet that arises discussion on spectacle, iconography and sequentially. Spectacle is the chosen form to share the dance, a dance created to satisfy or create a particular vision of beauty. The sequentially in time I use to create ambivalence in the time-line of 20 minutes becomes...
Divine Comedy
28/05/2012
Divine Comedy is a co-production by Bitef Teater and Budva City Theatre Festival. Dante’s work is placed in the present-day is highly poetic, and at moments grotesque. The hypnotic vision of paradise, hell and purgatory of the 21st century in a choreography by Edward Clug. Coming to Španski Borci...
Tim Acy
25/04/2012
In TIM ACY, Hamburg choreographer Antje Pfundtner uses the solo form to exposes herself to the public once more. She challenges the legality of the solo and devotes herself to the question of whether the fundamental intimacy of the solo is purely a strategy to win the audience’s complicity. 18 May...
Can We Talk About This?
27/12/2011
"Without a doubt, it is one of the most important works of our age. Go." Time Out Sydney. Latest work by DV8 and Lloyd Newson in Španski Borci on 2 March 2012.
Under the Eyelids
08/12/2011
The latest production by Zagreb Dance Ensemble (Zagrebački plesni orkestar) in Španski Borci on 8 December. Under the Eyelids deals with the concept of desire and answers the question whether our needs are equally civilized as ourselves.
1st International Conference on Dance Medicine in Slovenia
11/03/2011
The 1st International Conference on Dance Medicine took place in Španski Borci Cultural Centre in Ljubljana between 11 and 13 March 2011. For the first time in Slovenia it offered a merging of dance, alternative training, complementary and classic medicine with the aim of improving health, training...
Charity Auction of Children’s Artwork
23/12/2010
Around 50 individuals assisted Ded Moroz (also known as Father Frost, a fictional character who in some Slavic cultures plays a role similar to that of Santa Claus) at a charity auction of children’s artwork, which took place on 23 December 2010 in Španski Borci Cultural Centre in Ljubljana. The...
Inception 2011
10/12/2010
Leta 2010 je EN-KNAP Productions released a public tender for all interested parties and individuals of various types of performing arts to participate in a new project titled Zametki (Inception). As the organiser of Inception and manager of Španski Borci Cultural Centre, EN-KNAP offered the complete...
No Pasaran
30/09/2010
Esad Babačić, the legendary journalist of an equally legendary programme Tednik on the national television, author of Šport in Čas programme (TLP, Television Slovenia) hosted intriguiging public figures in the spirit of the Spanish fighters (Slovenian ’Španski Borci’...
Jordi Casanovas: Jukebox
25/09/2010
JUKEBOX is, after a long career as a dancer, Jordi Casanovas’ first solo. With this performance he starts creating his own work in collaboration with Maria Muñoz and Pep Ramis.
2. Plesna nacionala
25/09/2010
2. Plesna nacionala (a dance and social event - gathering of Slovene contemporary dance choreographers) took place on 25 September 2019 as part of the Španski Borci Season Opening event. It served as an informal meeting of the Slovenian dance scene, which presented selected segments from...
What Are You Going To Do When You Get Out Of Here?
Premiere: 17/01/2006
The film What you going to do when you get out of here?, by the award-winning duo Kovač-Podgoršek, is a complex landscape of improvised situations immersed in the timeless network of coalmine shafts under the Slovene town of Trbovlje (hometown of Iztok Kovač and the main source of his inspiration)....
Taming the Time
Premiere: 04/04/2002
Walking, the four protagonists are trying to find their way. But in the art of walking, there are seven rules. When one strictly follows these rules and when the circumstances are in favor, the encounter happens. There is limitless number of possible encounters and each encounter has its own feel. After...
Dom Svobode
Premiere: 01/04/2000
Dom Svobode was born from Cobra and Phantom. Kurusawa and Bunnuel were the godfathers. Trbovlje are the Sea of Galilee. The walls are no longer vertical. (Sašo Podgoršek) The leading artists in Slovenia are haunted by ... gravitation! Živadinov is lured into gravitation by nothingness, Gregorič...
Vertigo Bird
Premiere: 18/01/1997
Contemporary dance, concentrating on the body and space, represents an isolated world, a world of formal and moral rules, a world which creates its own isolated experience. Just like the world of the miners. Here lies their inescapable magnetism. They are both some kind of highly poetic illusion, with...
Narava Beso
Premiere: 13/12/1995
The point of reference in Iztok Kovac`s work is often his home town Trbovlje – a mining town and at the same time the Slovene simbol of gray, polluted and forsaken landscape of socialist heavy industry. His returns to his home-town should not be understood merely as nostalgia or personal sentimentality,...