Emese Cuhorka

Dancer, teacher and choreographer Emese Cuhorka graduated from the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. She has worked with Adrienn Hód since 2007 and has been a member of Hodworks since 2009. Together with Csaba Molnár, she develops artistic recontextualizations of subcultures. She is interested in experimenting with forms and performance formats. As a performer and co-creator, she has participated in six works that have received the Rudolf Lábán Award. The piece Sea Lavender was awarded the Special Prize by the Hungarian Theatre Critics. The documentary about the rehearsals of this piece, titled The Euphoria of Being, won the Main Prize at the Locarno Film Festival and the Human Rights Prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

En–Knap (1994) was founded by dancer and choreographer Iztok Kovač. Throughout the years it has been active as a dance group, a production house and a professional, permanent ensemble (since 2007), making it the oldest ensemble for contemporary dance in Slovenia. The international ensemble is selected through an international audition. En–Knap boasts a meticulously curated repertoire and a consistent research aesthetic—in collaboration with internationally renowned choreographers and directors of diverse aesthetic traditions—as well as regular international touring. En–Knap manages the Španski borci Cultural Centre in Ljubljana (since 2009), which is both the ensemble’s home base and the largest venue in Slovenia dedicated to the development of contemporary dance. En–Knap develops stage and film production, both at the intersection with an intensive exploration of virtual reality and technology through stage360 (since 2019). Over the years, En–Knap has created more than 100 dance performances, 12 dance films, 10 virtual reality projects, and has collaborated with over 600 artists. The company has performed over 600 guest performances in more than 30 countries and earned more than 20 awards.