EN KNAP

What you going to do when you get out of here?

The international dance group En Knap was founded in 1993, by Iztok Kovač in Leuven in Belgium under the wings of the production managing house Stuc and the Klapstuk Festival. A year later the group moved its headquarters to Ljubljana, where it established as EN-KNAP dance company. The program of EN-KNAP is among other international coproducers from its beginnings financially supported by the Slovene Ministry of Culture and by the City Council of Ljubljana - Departement for Culture.

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). The realistic imagery of this post-socialist town, which still seems to exist out of time, triggered the impulse of this intimate introspection by a team of acclaimed dancers and filmmakers. The physical strain and ludist flashes of seven bodies cutting into the intentionally chosen closed situation, surrounded by the lightless warmth and humidity of the underground world, inhabit and create the poetic mood of the film, echoing Tarkovski and Beckett. The film, based on the motifs of the dance performance S.K.I.N. by the choreographers Iztok Kovač and Julyen Hamilton, is an audiovisual articulation of en-knapian language of bodies in motion which draws the viewer into an engaging atmosphere.

Production: EN-KNAP
Coproduction: TV Slovenija
Film director: Sašo Podgoršek
Choreographer: Iztok Kovač

www.en-knap.com/

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