Ex Ponto mednarodni festival
Društvo B-51, Prešernova 7, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 426 9405, 386 (0) 31 357965
Organised byB-51 Cultural Society
Damir Domitrovič Kos, President
Frequencyannual
Ex Ponto International Festival
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Past Events
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6 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014
The Dresser, produced by Slovene National Theatre Maribor, and Tobelia, co-produced by the Eẋ Ponto International Festival, at the Biennial of the Montenegrin Theatre, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Podgorica,
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16 Sep 2010
26 Sep 2010
Damned Be the Traitor of His Homeland!, directed by Oliver Frljić and produced by Mladinsko Theatre; The Bridge Over Blood by Damir Avdić, directed by Marko Bulc and produced by the Glej Theatre; and Exit the King, co-produced by Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana and Ex Ponto International Festival, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Skopje,
at the International Theatre Festival MOT
Overview
During its 16 years of activity, the Ex Ponto International Festival has succeeded to achieve its initial goal to stimulate communication and international cooperation and exchange between the Balkans and other East European countries, as well as with Western Europe, through presenting contemporary theatre and performing and visual arts productions to Slovene and international audiences. The festival aims to present productions which tackle the burning issues of contemporary society by adopting critical and (politically) engaged perspectives on questions at stake as well as display a high level of mastering the art of contemporary performing art practices. Thus far, the festival presented influential and resounding names of contemporary theatre, such as Andriy Zholdak, Kama Ginkas, Jozef Nadj, Bela Pinter, Victor Bodo, Arpad Schilling, Attila Pessyani, Sahika Tekand, Rodrigo Garcia, Nicolas Stemann, Piotr Tomzcuk, Cezaris Graužinis, and acknowledged theatre groups, such as Theatre Laboratory Sfumato, Jozef Katona Theatre, Theatre Company Piesn Kozla, Russian Engineering Theatre AKHE, the Prague-based Farm in the Cave International Studio, etc.
In addition to foreign performances, the festival’s programme also includes domestic productions and local premières of most penetrating and innovative performances, which have already been presented at partnering international festivals. These performances, which enjoy great acclaim at local and foreign stages, are for the most part co-productions of the festival’s organiser B-51 Cultural Society, whose basic activity is the production in the field of performing arts, with foreign partners, such as Festival Infant, Serbia, Festival MOT, Macedonia, Laboratorio Nove, Italy, Festival Teuta - New Ancient Theatre, Monte Negro, International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Zadar snova, Croatia, etc. The festival usually presents at least 10 domestic and foreign productions (often large-scaled) during a period of 10 to 14 days, plus a range of projects aimed at further enhancing and promoting inter-cultural exchange.
In recent years, the programme of Ex Ponto is selected in view of a selected topic. The 2007 Ex Ponto's theme was Theatre and Politics. The 2008 edition ran under the title Faith and Believing and featured an installation/exhibition by the visual and sound artists Tanja Vujinović, co-produced by Ex Ponto and EXSTAT and presented at Kapelica Gallery, and an international group exhibition, co-produced by Škuc Gallery and City Museum of Ljubljana, which has dealt with the question of the art system and the individual's positioning in it. The participating Slovene artists were Irwin and Franc Purg. The 2009 programme tackled the theme Family and presented a wide range of aesthetic approaches to deconstructing the established notions of familial belongingness.
Ex Ponto International Festival is a member of the New European Theatre Action (NETA) and since November 2007 the seat of the NETA Secretariat.
Venues
The festival is presented at different venues in Ljubljana, such as Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre, Mladinsko Theatre, City Museum of Ljubljana, etc. as well as at other non-theatrical spaces.
