Transit Festivals

The Transit Festivals were organised by Julia Varley at Odin Teatret, and held approximately every three years from 1992 to 2022.

Typically, the Transit Festival was structured in two parts: four days of workshops and demonstration performances, followed by four-five days of festival - performances, presentations, discussions, parties, usually an exhibition and all culminating in the traditional Transit Feast.

Since 2023, Transit "mini" Festivals have been held in Vinderup, Denmark. with the themes The Secret Room - Theatre-Women-Poetry (2024) and Poetry in Space - Theatre-Women-Composition (2023). The 2025 mini festival has the theme Sparks of Imagination - Theatre-Women-Intention.

Documentation about past Transit festivals can be found on the Transit Forum web site. The links below, on this website, have some of the same material as well as reports from participants and links to participants' photos, videos and other online documentation.

 

Selene D'Agostino is working on the Transit Festival archives and can be contacted via this site for further information (you need to be logged in to access Selene's contact page; if you have not yet registered on the site you can register here).

The above image, from the Transit VI 2009 brochure, is by Dorthe Kærgaard whose paintings are featured on the Transit programmes and exhibited in the Odin Teatret foyer as part of the Transit festival.