The 12th annual Exodos festival of performing arts will host a selection of diverse performances, ranging from abstract dance to poetic theatre, yet all the shows will address the time we live in, according to festival selector Ursula Cetinski.
The festival, which is to take place in Cankarjev dom congress centre between 18 May and 1 June, will be launched by a performance of the Musicians of the Nile, mixing traditional Roma instruments, sharp rhythms, brutal story telling and melancholy.
The introduction to the event will come a week earlier with a performance of the Royal Ballet of Flanders entitled "Impressing the Czar", scheduled to take place on 8 and 9 May. The performance without a story is a modernised version of classical ballet and a collage of dance forms.
Dreamthinkspeak from the UK will meanwhile stage an installation entitled "Don't Look Back", while the Canadian modern dance star Louise Lecavalier will stage two shows, "Cobalt Rouge Remix" and "'I' Is Memory".
Acclaimed Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard will stage a performance entitled "Body Remix/Goldberg Variations", a "mediation on beauty and frailty of the human body".
Also present at the festival will be Japan's Dumb Type with its interactive video-installation "Voyage", while poetic theatre will be represented by one of Flanders' leading modern artists Jan Decorte.
Slovenian performers will meanwhile stage two plays, including "Prinzesinnendramen" by the Kranj-based Presernovo Gledalisce theatre, two music performances, and a show for children.
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