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The international dance group En-Knap met for the first time in 1993 in Leuven, Belgium, under the wing of the production managing house Stuc and the Klapstuk Festival. There choreographer, dancer and film artist Iztok Kovač created the performance ''How I Caught a Falcon'', which received awards from ''Time Out'' Magazine and at the ''Grand Prix International Video Dance'' in Stockholm. He subsequently moved back to Ljubljana and founded the En-Knap Dance Group and in [[Established::1994]] its own production house, [[En-Knap Productions]]. In 2007 a professional EnKnapGroup (EKG) was established - via an audition the five dancers were selected: two are coming from Slovenia, others from Slovakia, Turkey and the UK.
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[[EnKnapGroup (EKG)]], the first professional contemporary dance group in Slovenia, was established in [[established::2007]]. EKG is the only permanent ensemble for contemporary dance in Slovenia with a repertory programme of established Slovene and foreign authors. The latest EKG performance ''10 Min East'' brings together five choreographers and directors, namely László Hudi, Edward Clug, Iztok Kovač, Snježana Abramović - Milković, and Matjaž Berger.  
 
 
 
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==Programme==
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The newly established group was formed via two auditions in 2007 and 2010. The group premièred with a performance ''Celebration'' [Praznovanje] in September 2007, which was co-created by long-term collaborators of En-Knap: choreographer and dancer Andreja Rauch, film director Sašo Podgoršek, and En-Knap founder and choreographer Iztok Kovač. With its subsequent productions, EnKnapGroup continued to develop and articulate different stage genres and poetics, which resulted in interesting collaborations with different performing arts authors. Thus in 2007, EKG presented the piece ''In-Between'' [Vmes] by Simone Sandroni and Lenka Flory, established choreographers and directors of Deja Donne dance company, and in 2008, the performance ''Decision'' [Ukrep] by the Slovene director Sebastijan Horvat, based on the once "forbidden text" of the same title by Bertolt Brecht. The group's other performances include ''Order'' [Ukaz] (2008) by the renowned Slovene choreographer Matjaž Farič, ''My Kingdom for a Horse'' [Kraljestvo za konja] (2008) by Iztok Kovač, the site-specific project ''Romeo and Public'' [Romeo in publika] (2008) by Mala Kline and the director Tomi Janežič, featuring guest performers, which tackles theatre's conventions and foregrounds the relationship between performer and the public, ''Raw'' [Surovo] (2009) by Claudia de Serpa Soares, and ''Cut Out'' [Črtano] (2009) by the theatre director Bojan Jablanovec.
 
 
The group's founder Iztok Kovač has choreographed a number of dance productions, as well as four films featuring over 100 artists from Europe, America and Asia. Well-known projects choreographed by Kovač include ''Spread Your Wings (You Clumsy Elephant)'' (''Prešeren Foundation Award'' in 1994), ''Sting and String - First Touch'' (First Prize for Best Choreography at the Suzanne Dellal International Dance Competition 1996 in Tel Aviv), ''Codes of Cobra'', ''Far From Sleeping Dogs'', ''Emanatio Protei'', ''The Perfect Step?,'' ''Hu Die'', ''The Cast of Die'' and ''SKIN''. Well known Slovene dancers started in the framework of En-Knap: Maja Delak, Mala Kline, Andreja Rauch, etc. In 2005 the Cankarjev dom hosted the En Knap production ''Mozart - Hype as I Wanna Be'' by choreographer Iztok Kovač. The production featured international dancers Valeria Garre, Alexander Gottfarb, Carmen Larraz, Marc de Pablo, Snježana Premuš and Milan Tomašik. The music was written by composer Tomaž Grom.
 
 
 
The company has introduced and established its own aesthetics inside the European space and has attracted many acclaimed co-producers abroad. The group has toured extensively and received numerous international and domestic awards.
 
 
 
==Projects==
 
 
 
A formation of the further group of young dancers (18-20 y.o.) is in plan as soon as conditions are met.
 
 
 
En-Knap also offers dance training, workshops and dance research for dancers and performers from Slovenia and abroad taught by En-Knap members, local dancers and choreographers and international guest instructors at their training hall.
 
Maja Delak, a dancer and choreographer of the En-Knap dance company (her performances included ''Gina & Miovanni'', ''6agon'', ''Mezzanino''), nowadays running [[Emanat, Dance Production and Education]], implemented the first official secondary school-level programme with a specialisation in contemporary dance at the [[Pre-School Education and Grammar School, Ljubljana]].
 
 
 
Two other En-Knap members, Andreja Rauch (''Rebeka'', 2002) and Mala Kline also teach at ''CIMET-Cultural Intersections, Mobility, Education and Tradition'' international programme and have started creating works produced by [[Zavod En-Knap]].
 
 
 
==International cooperation==
 
  
The company has co-operated with many acclaimed internatioanl co-producers such as Hebbel-Theatre, Berlin, The Place, London, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, ''Springdance Festival'', Utrecht, Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Gent, ''Szene'', Salzburg, ''TanzBremen'', Bremen, ''Podewil/TanzWerkstatt'', Berlin, Joint Adventures, Munich, ''Luzerntanz'', Luzern and ''CNDC L´Esquisse'', Angers. The production of the performance ''Codes of Cobra'' was EU funded within the ''Kaleidoscope'' programme of 1997.
 
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
  
 
*[[En-Knap Productions]]
 
*[[En-Knap Productions]]
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*[[Španski borci Culture Centre]]
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==

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EnKnapGroup (EKG), the first professional contemporary dance group in Slovenia, was established in 2007. EKG is the only permanent ensemble for contemporary dance in Slovenia with a repertory programme of established Slovene and foreign authors. The latest EKG performance 10 Min East brings together five choreographers and directors, namely László Hudi, Edward Clug, Iztok Kovač, Snježana Abramović - Milković, and Matjaž Berger.


The newly established group was formed via two auditions in 2007 and 2010. The group premièred with a performance Celebration [Praznovanje] in September 2007, which was co-created by long-term collaborators of En-Knap: choreographer and dancer Andreja Rauch, film director Sašo Podgoršek, and En-Knap founder and choreographer Iztok Kovač. With its subsequent productions, EnKnapGroup continued to develop and articulate different stage genres and poetics, which resulted in interesting collaborations with different performing arts authors. Thus in 2007, EKG presented the piece In-Between [Vmes] by Simone Sandroni and Lenka Flory, established choreographers and directors of Deja Donne dance company, and in 2008, the performance Decision [Ukrep] by the Slovene director Sebastijan Horvat, based on the once "forbidden text" of the same title by Bertolt Brecht. The group's other performances include Order [Ukaz] (2008) by the renowned Slovene choreographer Matjaž Farič, My Kingdom for a Horse [Kraljestvo za konja] (2008) by Iztok Kovač, the site-specific project Romeo and Public [Romeo in publika] (2008) by Mala Kline and the director Tomi Janežič, featuring guest performers, which tackles theatre's conventions and foregrounds the relationship between performer and the public, Raw [Surovo] (2009) by Claudia de Serpa Soares, and Cut Out [Črtano] (2009) by the theatre director Bojan Jablanovec.


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