EN-KNAP: Octet

En-Knap is Slovenia’s only professional ensemble for contemporary dance. Working together with the company under the artistic direction of Iztok Kovač are exceptional dancers and internationally honored choreographers, such as Simone Sandroni from the Deja Donne company, Italy.
The new piece “Octet” is an interactive, intermedial stage piece in which the stage setting is combined with video projections, live vj-ing, mapping, and light design. The piece deals with society’s relationship to the reigning post-modern cult of the individual, and in doing so touches on the core of twenty-first century cultural and political life.
The audience has the possiblity to either view the entire piece as a whole, or to get involved in it and create something new together with the dancers. For that, they are recorded on camera so that their picture can be projected into the scene in various ways at the same time.

Choreography and direction: Iztok Kovač
Development/design: Gyula Cserepes, Luke Thomas Dunne, Barbara Kanc, Katja Legin, Lada Petrovski, Anatefanec, Tamás Tuza
Music: Drago Ivanua
Video: Studio Nejaaka, Luka Umek
Lighting: Jaka imenc
Stage design: Miran Mohar (Irwin)
Costumes: Alan Hranitelj
Dramaturgy: Andreja Kovač
Speakers: Nada Voduek, Matja-Pikalo
Technical director: Kristjan Rhesmann, Omar Ismail
Head of rehearsals: Tanja Skok
Production manager: Marjeta Lavrič
Production: EN-KNAP Productions

The program by EN-KNAP Productions was financially supported by the Cultural Ministry of Slovenia and by the City Council of Ljubljana, Cultural Office.
Media sponsors: Radio Student, Planetsiol.net