Concept:
Bojan Jablanovec with assistance of Katarina Stegnar
Direction: Bojan Jablanovec
Duration: 45min
One of the creative principles of Bojan Jablanovec and his Via Negativa
is a reduction of theatre to the relationship between a performer and
a spectator in a real time and space.
Theatre show that wants to question this relationship demands of every
performer to ask him or herself the following questions: What do I want
to get across? Does my message deserves to be presented? Is this really
what I want to show? In this way a methodological auto-negation can
be one of the means of investigating the basis of a theatrical situation.
(B. Jablanovec)
CV
Iztok Kovac
started the dance group En-Knap in 1993 under the auspices of the Klapstuk
festival in Leuven (Belgium). In 1994, the production organization EN-KNAP
was registered in Ljubljana (Slovenia). In 16 years of EN-KNAP
activities
41 performances have been created,
5 dance and 6 documentary films shot,
20 international awards has been received,
plus a multitude of educational programmes launched and a collection
of books published.
From the outset, the program of EN-KNAP has been financially supported
by the 
Slovene Ministry of Culture and City Council of Ljubljana.
EN-KNAP has been collaborating with more than
50 foreign and Slovene co-producers, which is reflected in more than
400 guest appearances, in more than
30 countries all over the world.
In 2007 EN-KNAP decided to change from project-based to repertory-based work and started a permanent dance company EnKnapGroup, EKG with an international cast of graduates from Europe's top dance schools. In a year and a half they have collaborated with 11 distinguished authors from the field of theatre and dance.
EnKnapGroup is a permanent international repertory-based
dance company dedicated to collaborating with innovative, creative authors
from both Slovenia and abroad. We are striving to achieve an artistic
synergy between our own aesthetics and forms of expression and the most
experimental dimensions of contemporary dance. Inside EKG, history dances
with the future, our collective soul is moved by our individual bodies,
and the old model of East/West Europe is turned inside out.
