NAVIGATING RESISTANCE

Theatre-Women-Exercices in Poetry
4 August (arrival) – 11 August (departure) 2025

A seven-day festival and meeting at Stendis Lejren, Vinderup, Denmark

With: Ana Woolf (Argentina), Antinia Cioaza (Rumania/Denmark), Brigitte Cirla (France), Dina Abu Hamdan (Jordan/Denmark), Dorthe Kærgaard (Denmark), Geddy Aniksdal (Norway), Giovanna Zanchetta (Italy), Jill Greenhalgh (UK)  Julia Varley (UK/Denmark), Maristella Martella (Italy), Odin Teatret (Denmark), Samaneh Zandinejad (Iran)

For 30 participants
Working language: English

Cost: 600 (six hundred)  Euro, inclusive of lodging in shared rooms.
Food will be prepared and paid collectively by the participants.

Deadline for applying: 5th May 2026.
Participants will be accepted in order of application.
Deadline for payment: 10th June 2026.

for information and applications:
info@transitforum.dk

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“Navigating resistance – Theatre Women Exercices in poetry”

From 3 to 10 August 2026 a seven-day Transit (mini) Festival will take place at Stendis Lejren, Vinderup, Denmark. The programme includes performances, workshops, meetings and the possibility to develop work-in-progress shared by 30 international participants and the invited artists.

It is a difficult time. Wars proliferate and irresponsible presidents don’t respect international laws. The meaning of words and experience have turned upside down. What used to be evident is no more. All intentions need to be explained again. One of the main aim of Transit festival is to offer time and space to collaboration, re charging confidence and motivation, and sharing strategies for autonomous survival. Many words have been mentionned while defining the theme for Transit Festival in 2026: generosity, friendship, occupying, rigour, elaboration, the making, growing, development, discipline, energy, opening horizons, sharing, building, colouring, riding butterflies, daring and courage. Vasically, we just wanted to say: “keep on, don’t give up!” We also wanted to give special tasks to the participants and their work in progress.

The title “Navigating Resistance – Theatre Women Exercises in Poetry” is there to remind us that our strength is our vulnerability, that we need to follow personal stars to find our path, that we need to concentrate on practice which confronts many failures before reaching results, and that our weapon is the poetry in our work. The theme is the framework to work practically with the intention of our actions, texts, songs, scenes and performances while developing a creative process. Participants and invited artists are invited to share work in progress to be developed during Transit Festival.

Julia Varley