Exodos Institute

Established in 1999, Exodos Institute is a non-profit, independent theatre and dance production centre. Besides organising the annual Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, Exodos has also produced the biannual Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance since 2003.

Overview

Exodos Institute has been registered as a non-for-profit cultural institution with the aim of producing the Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, a prestigious event which has been taking place in Ljubljana since 1995 and which during the 15 years of activity presented numerous resounding performances by foreign artists. Since 1999, Exodos is producing independent theatre and dance performances by established makers as well as supporting young, emerging artists. Exodos regularly collaborates with authors, such as Snježana Premuš, Matej Kejžar, Ivan Peternelj, Leja Jurešič, Jurij Konjar, Magdalena Reiter, etc. and with a number of Slovene co-producers, such as Maska Institute in Janez Janša's performance Fake It! (2007), Ljubljana Dance Theatre (PTL) in Snježana Premuš's Stories of the Body: Move As and Magdalena Reiter's Forma Interrogativa, which won the 2005 Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance Award. Exodos also co-produced several works by international authors, such as Ana Stegnar and Saïd Gharbi's Thirst [Žeja] (2006), produced by Les BGM, Koen van Sutter's international multidisciplinary production The Attendants' Gallery–Stories of Europe, produced by Lod and supported by Theorem through ECF, featuring five actors–attendants supported by artistic images and objects as well as live music, a co-production with Wax Factory, New York in Ivan Talijančič's staging of Sarah Kane's Cleansed, etc.

Exodos Institute is a member of several international networks, including the Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM), Festivals in Transition (FIT), European Dance Education Network (DANCE) and the Trans Danse Europe network of production houses.