Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Overview
In its fifteen years of on-going activity, festival Exodos has presented a vast number of prominent and influential performing arts makers and companies. The scope and quality of the presented works makes the festival of one of the most important contemporary performing arts festivals in the wider region. Among others, it has featured foreign artists such as Jozsef Nagy, DV8, Enrique Vargas, Wim Vandekeybus, Jan Fabre, Needcompany, Vera Montero, Emio Greco, Ultima Vez, Jonathan Burrows, Jan Ritsema, Nigel Charnock & Helsinki City Theatre Dance Company, Goran Sergej Pristaš & Bad.co, Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Mark Tompkins, Vera Mantero, Robert Lepage, Lydia Lunch, Mark Tompkins, Daniel Leveille, Rabih Mroue, Jan Decorte, Mark Ravenhill, Dave St. Pierre, Raimund Hoghe, Forced Entertainment, Rabih Mroue, and many more.
Over the years, Exodos has also functioned as a platform for the work of leading Slovene artists, such as Maja Delak, Ivica Buljan, Dragan Živadinov, Sebastijan Horvat, EnKnapGroup, Matjaž Farič, Emil Hrvatin, Betontanc, Fourklor, Matjaž Berger, Diego de Brea, Sanja Neškovic Peršin, Mateja Bučar, etc.
Exodos has always emphasised the educational and theoretical aspects of its work by organising lectures and workshops, eg by the group Ulima vez and Wim Vandekeybus, or workshops on criticism.
With Cankarjev dom ceasing to be the main festival venue and the withdrawal of Ministry of Culture support, the Festival has had to be temporarily transformed - its current art educational projects and international co-productions are presented at the website.
Dave St-Pierre’s La Pornographie des âmes (Bare Naked Souls)
Eric Joris and the CREW.