10 MINUTES: EAST

The piece 10 minutes: East represents the cycle of choreographic vignettes based on the idea of time. 10 minutes: East builds its originality through the overall artistic proposal which reacts to the ever-changing geographical contexts, and the logic of its exchange and collaboration.
In this international coproduction under the frame of EN KNAP, 5 emminent authors creating in the medium of contemporary dance and theater: Csaba Horvath, Snježana Abramović-Milković, Edward Clug, Matjaž Berger and Iztok Kovač, with the help of the dancers of EnKnapGroup: Gyula Cserepes, Luke Dunne, Katja Legin, Lada Petrovski, Ana Štefanec with Renan Oliveira as guest are meditating, from their personal experience, on the dimension of time.
The idea of the show is inspired by the movie project 10 minutes older, which represents an omnibus of short movies by prominent world film directors. Coming from the same source, but using the procedures of theatre, 5 different authors, with different cognitive approach, different gheographies and different dance practises offer their personal imagery on the nature of time in no longer nor shorter than 10 minutes pieces of the fullfleged production. It is a way to develop certain fresh ideas by creating the work according to variable forms and formats but in the same time and work frame. The final production could as well be seen as a mirror of the meeting between the authors and the team of performers of the En Knapp Company. These uniqe and personal perspectives are unifed by the original response of the Slovenian composer Drago Ivanuš, light designer Jaka Šimenc and costume desigener Alan Hranitelj, giving a specific dramturgical thread to the landscape of different time aproaches and visions.

authors: Snježana Abramović-Milković (Croatia), Matjaž Berger (Slovenia), Edward Clug (Slovenia), Laszlo Hudi (Hungary)and Iztok Kovač (Slovenia)
dancers: Gyula Cserepes, Luke Dunne, Katja Legin, Lada Petrovski, Ana Štefanec and Renan Oliveira
music: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar, Drago Ivanuša
costumes: Alan Hranitelj
light: Jaka Šimenc
light design for Matjaž Berger: Simon Žižek
dramataurge for Snježana Abramović -Milković: Saša Božić
production: EN-KNAP
coproduction: ZPA Zagreb, SNG Maribor, APT Novo mesto, Workshop Fundation Budapest
The project is financially suported by the Ministery of culture of Slovenia, City council of Ljubljana