The 2020 international edition of the 9th Spider Festival took place between 17 and 20 June in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Our dance floors was set in the natural environment of the Tivoli Park and other partner’s sites in Ljubljana.
Read moreLANGUAGESAUSAGE-LANGUAGESAUSAGE-LANgUAGESAUSEGE (LSLSLS)
Matej Kejžar, who in recent years has been shaping his notion of an emancipated form of dance is continuing to do so in LSLSLS. He asks: What is it with instructions that teach us how awareness needs to be habituated for us to insert ourselves within repetitive cycles? LSLSLS is a depiction of tension. It reveals the conditions for the necessary change. It is an open window that may render visible the infinite processes of tension.
Read moreSpider Festival 2019
The eight edition of the Spider festival of radical bodies, re-takes unconventional spaces and charges them with cutting performances from all over the globe to create the five days of the Zone of co-existing. With Marie-Pierre Brébant & François Chaignaud, Daniel Linehan, Matej Kejžar, Stina Fors, Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy, Urbana scena and many more.
Read moreDE FACTO - Go With Yourself
The meeting of the musician and dancer on the stage, which is also a dance floor and a concert venue, resonates with the connection of the incompatible – the first joint project by Leja Jurišić and Milko Lazar acts as a hybrid experimental work, in which the artists engage in a creative dialogue to transcend their own authorial position.
Read moreSPIDER FESTIVAL 2018
The international Spider festival, annually presenting a selection of ground-breaking European and Slovene productions in the field of dance and performance, will spread its’ net of radical performative practices between the 12th and 16th of September 2018 in the Slovene capital of Ljubljana.
Read moreTogether
The top performing duo Jurišić-Mandić, in collaboration with director Bojan Jablanovec and writer Semira Osmanagić, address the all-time ideal of performing arts and the forever irresolvable issue of politics: what does it mean to be together and how should we be together?
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SONGLINES I/XII
Mala Kline's newest creation SONGLINES poses language as a question. If the limits of one’s language are the limits of one’s world, then it is essential to reflect on language.
Read moreHouse
House is the second piece by Matej Kejžar from his Utopian Trilogy, which is based on the work The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella.
Read moreSPIDER FESTIVAL 2017
The Spider is back! This year, even further along the cutting edge and sharper than ever. In a week, this contemplation-friendly, party-friendly and guerrilla-friendly international gathering of makers will let you see, hear and experience some of the freshest and most radical production, while never ceasing to entertain and fascinate.
Read moreThe most beautiful moments are the shortest
Dancer Leja Jurišić is a hanging body in her installation that has been forcibly deprived of subjectivation, which is why it is fixed: “The most beautiful moments are the shortest"
Read moreLeja Jurišić: Najlepši trenutki so najkrajši
Otvoritveni dnevi grafičnega bienala - Leja Jurišić: Najlepši trenutki so najkrajši. Performativna Instalacija o Samoumevanju Negacije Subjekta. Lokacija in dan izvedbe: Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije, petek, 16. junij: 9.00–16.00. (Foto: Petra Veber)
Read moreMALA KLINE'S PRESENTATION OF NEW WORK
Work in progress SONG by Mala Kline will be presented for the first time 29 December 2016 at Španski borci in Ljubljana.
Read morePekinpah's Performative Exhibition | Pekinpahova uprizoritvena razstava
V prvo Pekinpahovi uprizoritveni razstav, smo z združevanjem formatov sodobnih uprizoritvenih praks, razpirali večperspektivični pogled. Predstavljene so bile uprizoritvene, vizualne, glasbene in oblikovalske aktivnosti Pekinpahovih umetnikov in oblikovalcev, ki skozi različne žanre in prostorsko-časovno kontekste preslikavajo smernice nastalega, sedanjega in prihajajočega.
Read moreAbout Spider Festival
Since 2010, Pekinpah has been the head coordinator of SPIDER festivals across Europe. Initiated by Matej Kejžar and in collaboration with our partners, we have put together Spider (2010-2012) and Spider Expand! (2012-2014) projects and in turn organised ten international artistic events in Athens, Zagreb, Lyon, Berlin, Brussels and Ljubljana. Far from being done, we are currently in the middle of developing a new SPIDER project termed Spider Futures.
Read moreClub 1 2
The first part of Kejžar's new trilogy, inspired by Tommasso Campanella's utopia the City of the Sun, as well as the electronic music and dance culture, Club 1 2 premiered at the June 2016 Spider festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Read moreIdeal
Revealing the connections between female sexuality and patriotism, Leja Jurišić and Teja Reba occupy a bed in order to interrogate the lives of dead and immoratal male figures. Ideal premiered at the 2015 Spider Festival in Ljubljana.
Read moreKejžar's 'Rave' at the Théâtre National's XS Festival in Brussels
Featuring dancer and choreographer Matej Kejžar (Belgium) and vocalist Niño de Elche (Spain), Rave (Pekinpah, Festival d'Avignon 2015), which premiered last year at the Festival D'Avignon, was invited to the XS 2016 Festival that takes place in the Théâtre National in Brussels from 17 to 19 March.
Read moreI Fear Slovenia
Slovenia is a world superpower, subjugating populations throughout the world. Jurišić depicts a bunch of Slovenian females whose fresh imperial subjectivity has been evolving either perfectly or disastrously. In short, the War on Terror à la Slovénie.
Read moreSenzasenso
This is a dance perfromance in which Rozman builds an eco-futurist world parallel to today's natural reality. Rozman envisions human beings existing side by side with unusual creatures born out of future landscapes.
Read moreGenesis
An ongoing striving by five remarkable performers to give birth to something new, Genesis is a collective effort to weave a new world from our common dreams. Genesis premiered at the 2015 Ganz Novi Festival in Zagreb.
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