En–Knap & Ermira Goro: Na začetku #premiera #telesaidentiteteidentitetetelesa

En–Knap & Ermira Goro:
NA ZAČETKU
#oder #premiera

Delo Ermire Goro raziskuje napetost med tokovi, ki nas nosijo, in impulzom, da bi se gibali drugače, v formi sprotnega pogajanja. Nastopajoči se gibljejo skupaj znotraj skupnega koda, vendar vsaka gesta v sebi nosi možnost odmika: možnost oklevanja, upora, izbire druge smeri. Izstopiti iz vzorca pomeni tvegati, da onkraj njega zaidejo – navadno v samotnem spodrsljaju, ki pa se tu in tam – instinkt ali naključje? – uspe razširiti v kolektivno stanje.

Odrski suspenz je težko razrešljiv in odmeva širše stanje nelagodja, v katerem strukture vztrajajo, četudi napete do svojih skrajnosti. Ermira Goro spodnaša ustaljene predstave o identiteti kot kulturno predpisanem vedenju, normah in vlogah tako, da vzpostavi pogoje za nestabilnost. Nemir najde svojo edino razrešitev prav nestabilnosti: v stanju, ko telo zdrsne iz tistega, kar se je naučilo ponavljati, in za hip pokaže drugačen način bivanja.

𝐄𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐨 razvija interdisciplinarne prakse na področju plesa in performansa, kjer telo postaja prostor pogajanja in transformacije. Njena umetniška pot se je začela v Albaniji in Grčiji in se nadaljevala v New Yorku, kjer so srečanja z mednarodnimi plesnimi scenami pomembno zaznamovala njen koreografski razvoj. Goro sodeluje z umetniki in institucijami v različnih kontekstih: giblje se med koreografskim ustvarjanjem, nastopanjem in pedagoškim delom. Več let je bila, kot plesalka, mentorica ter asistentka pri raziskovanju in koreografiji, ključna članica britanske skupine 𝐃𝐕𝟖 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞.

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➜ 𝐄𝐧–𝐊𝐧𝐚𝐩 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝟐.𝟎.

En–Knap Group začenja novo poglavje – pod novim umetniškim vodstvom, na začetku, z dekonstrukcijo lastne identitete. Plesni diptih je prvi projekt Mattie Casona v vlogi novega umetniškega vodje ansambla. V sodelovanju s koreografoma skupina izbere nestabilnost in v njej možnost, da se jaz pojavi v vsej svoji protislovni naravi – v telesu, v plesu. Prav v tej razpoki, ko plesalci postanejo bolj oni sami kot kdaj koli prej, se začne pravi krešendo identitete.

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𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐣𝐨. 𝐈𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐣𝐨. 𝐍𝐚 𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐮. 𝐕 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐮.

V skupnem tematskem terenu nastajata sodelovanji koreografov Ermire Goro in Smaïla Kanoutéja s plesno skupino En–Knap. Dve samostojni deli identiteto razumeta kot nestabilno razmerje med telesom, osebnim imaginarijem ter družbenim kontekstom, ki se izrisuje in prevprašuje skozi plesni gib – identiteta se vzpostavlja kot dinamična konfiguracija, podvržena ponovitvi, prekinitvi in spremembi. Vaji, prav zdaj.

En–Knap & Ermira Goro & Smaïl Kanouté
TELESA IDENTITETE, IDENTITETE TELESA
Dvojni plesni večer

14. (premiera) & 15. (repriza) April 2026 / 20:00
@ Španski borci, Ljubljana (SI)

➜ Vstopnice @ mojekarte.si 🎟️ Več @ en-knap.com

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Avtorica: Ermira Goro
Plesalci in izvajalci: En–Knap Group (Mattia Cason, Matija Franješ, Tina Habun, Fiona Macbride, Carolina Alessandra Valentini, Nika Zidar)
Umetniški vodja En–Knap Group: Mattia Cason
Oblikovanje svetlobe: Hotimir Knific
Kostumografija: Katarina Markov (Atelje d.o.o.)
Vodja vaj: Ana Štefanec Knez
Fotografija: Žiga Koritnik
Produkcija: Zavod En–Knap

Zavod En–Knap in Španske borce (upravljavec je Zavod En–Knap) podpira: Mestna občina Ljubljana – Oddelek za kulturo in Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije

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En–Knap & Ermira Goro
FIRST LIGHT
#stage #premiere

Ermira Goro’s explores the tension between the habits that carry us and the impulse to move otherwise through a live negotiation. The performers move together within a shared code, yet each gesture contains the opportunity to depart from it, to hesitate, to resist, to choose another direction. To step outside the pattern is to risk getting lost beyond it – usually in a solitary loss of balance that, now and then—instinct or chance?—manages to spread into a shared state.

On stage, this tension is difficult to resolve, echoing a broader condition in which structures persist even as they strain. Amid this instability, Goro’s work challenges fixed ideas of identity as cultural behaviour and prescribed roles by allowing norms to unravel. The tension finds its only temporary resolution in the moment of imbalance itself: when the body slips out of what it has learned to repeat, and another way of being might briefly appear.

𝐄𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐨 is an artist developing interdisciplinary movement practices in which the body operates as a site of negotiation, composition and transformation. Her artistic path began in Albania and Greece and later continued in New York, where encounters with international dance scenes shaped her early choreographic work. Moving between creation, performance and pedagogy, Goro has collaborated with artists and institutions across contexts, including an extended engagement with 𝐃𝐕𝟖 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞.

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➜ 𝐄𝐧–𝐊𝐧𝐚𝐩 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝟐.𝟎.
En–Knap Group begins a new chapter – under new artistic direction, at the beginning, with a deconstruction of its own identity. The dance diptych is the first project by Mattia Cason in his role as the ensemble’s new artistic director. In collaboration with the two choreographers, the group chooses instability and in it, the possibility for reality to appear once again in all its contradictory nature – in the body, in dance. It is precisely in this crack, when the dancers become more themselves than ever before, that the true crescendo of identity begins.

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𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐎𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞. 𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲.

Moving through the common thematic terrain, the upcoming double premiere brings together collaborations by Ermira Goro and Smaïl Kanouté with En–Knap Group, approaching identity as an unstable and continuously produced relation between body, imagination and social context. Across two distinct works, identity does not appear as inheritance or a fixed position, but as something questioned through movement. Repeated, interrupted, changed. Rehearsed, as we speak.

En–Knap with Ermira Goro & Smaïl Kanouté
BODIES OF IDENTITY, IDENTITIES OF BODY
Double premiere

14 (premiere) & 15 (repeat) APR 2026 / 20:00
@ Španski borci, Ljubljana (SI)

➜ Tickets @ mojekarte.si / More @ en-knap.com

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Created by: Ermira Goro
Performed by: En–Knap Group (Mattia Cason, Matija Franješ, Tina Habun, Fiona Macbride, Carolina Alessandra Valentini, Nika Zidar)
Artistic direction for En–Knap Group: Mattia Cason
Light design: Hotimir Knific
Costumes: Katarina Markov (Atelje d.o.o.)
Rehearsal Director: Ana Štefanec Knez
Photography: Žiga Koritnik
Production: Zavod En–Knap / En–Knap Productions

The programme of En–Knap Productions, administrator of Španski Borci, is financially supported by: City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture, which also supports Španski Borci activities, and Ministry
of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia