It is also home to Slovenian Contemporary Dance Company EnKnapGroup. Named in honour of the volunteers who sacrificed their lives in the fight for freedom during the Spanish Civil War, the venue was originally built in 1981 and extensively refurbished in 2009.
It features an up to 400 seat main hall and a 60-80 capacity flexible studio space with a lively programme of performing arts designed to be widely accessible. It stages around 400 shows and performances - including exhibitions - a year.
Luka Curk, the venue's technical manager, instigated the ParFect 100 purchase, with the units supplied by Robe's proactive Slovenian distributor, MK Light Sound.
They were delivered with the full set of available diffusion lenses - 10, 20 and 40 degrees - and gel frames and they are the first professional LED fixtures that the theatre has purchased, so it was a big move.
They were chosen for their smooth, bright output and light weight explains Curk. At 4.2 Kg without barn doors, the ParFects can easily be rigged on the manual fly bars in their main house.
Looking to the future and potential moving light purchases, they also decided to go with Robe as the entire current range of static and moving LED fixtures are colour calibrated to match one another.
Curk also explains that the dance company tours extensively across Europe, particularly Germany, where Robe is very common, so they can specify them for their touring shows with the confidence that they will be supplied. "This makes it much easier to manage tours and tech specs," he says.
As soon as the ParFects were delivered to panski Borci they went directly on to their first show, Huda Mravljica (Ant Ferocious) for which Curk was the lighting designer. He used them for discreet side lighting.
(Jim Evans)
