The 14th edition of Spider Festival brings together opposites and unexpected encounters: the energy of youth and the power of age, harmony and disruption, trance and awakening. Through movement, we’ll shape new realities—resisting, remembering, and reinventing. We’ll tune into the voices of trees marked by ruin, invent a dance against tango, and revel in the instant where tradition collides with rave, in that charged pause before falling in love, before uprising.
On Victory Day, Leja Jurišić and Miklavž Komelj read a dialogue between Capital and Revolution from Pasolini’s Stilna žival, echoing his closing verse: “And yet, this is a day of victory!” The event featured interventions by Darko Suvin (online), Boris A. Novak, Alice Pamuk, and Janez Kardelj, who also exhibited a painting. The interior was of course, designed by Petra Veber.
With this initiative, our intention was to offer direct support for artistic excellence by providing choreographers with concrete financial recognition. Thanks to the donations gathered, we were able to contribute to the main award of the Biennial, granted to Klemen Kovačič for his work Agmisterij. The award was not simply a gesture of praise, but a resource aimed at enabling the continuation and deepening of his creative practice.
Join us at Studio Pekinpah (Trg prekomorskih brigad 1, 4th floor) as we mark the 10th anniversary of Tomaž Šalamun's death and 100 years of the Surrealist Manifesto. Through words, movement, and presence, we’ll summon the birds so they cease to fear — for death is but a mistake of naming, and dance is yet to come. Interventions by Miklavž Komelj and Leja Jurišić, with guests Tibor Hrs Pandur, Marko Rop, Dan Rosenberg, and more.
Matej Kejžar has been awarded the Croatian Theatre Award 2024 for House Bolero, recognised as the best performance in the dance category. Performed by an exceptional cast and produced by the Studio for Contemporary Dance, the piece highlights Kejžar's distinctive approach to movement and expression. With scenography and lighting by Petra Veber, this award marks a significant moment for contemporary dance. Congratulations to Matej and everyone involved!
Join us on Wednesday, November 6 at Studio Pekinpah in Ljubljana for the presentation of Djuna Barnes' Antiphon, now available in Slovene. The event will feature a blend of spatial installation, live performance, and reading, with a focus on engaging the translator in dialogue. A unique opportunity to experience one of the most enigmatic works of 20th-century drama.
Tatiana Kocmur will once again explore the topic of sexual violence in a provocative environment with her new project Meso⏐Flesh. Unlike The Following Body, which focused on the sheer brutality of trauma, Meso⏐Flesh focuses on the story of rekindling love after the traumatic encounter with sexual violence, presenting the audience with a story of regrowth through pain.
Welcome to Spider Festival 2023, a Dance study of the digital space as a field of resistance to the hegemonic contemporary choreography interfaces. We invite you to tilt in and out and encounter empty frames filled with organic materials. Welcome to the place of opacity, inhalation, and reflection. Bring all the data and expectations, and let all thought be metabolized by idiosyncratic dancers who feel their way through the world imaginatively and artfully.
This is a story about oscillations between certainty and indeterminacy. Rejecting the traditional relationship between Dance and Choreography means attentively following the myth of Aphrodite’s birth. Born from foam, Aphrodite evokes images of irregular rhythmic patterns, the spectacle of movement over movement, and the voyage from one pattern to another. Will the cut between one and the other always mean the end of repetition, a kind of end of reproduction? How will we handle this change? Will we?
This is a story about oscillations between certainty and indeterminacy. Rejecting the traditional relationship between Dance and Choreography means attentively following the myth of Aphrodite’s birth. Born from foam, Aphrodite evokes images of irregular rhythmic patterns, the spectacle of movement over movement, and the voyage from one pattern to another. Will the cut between one and the other always mean the end of repetition, a kind of end of reproduction? How will we handle this change? Will we?
Notes to Antiphon by Petra Veber and Leja Jurišić is the conclusion of the first phase of reading The Antiphon, the great work by Djuna Barnes, as well as an announcement of the Slovenian translation by Miklavž Komelj, which will be published by cf.
Anamaria Klajnšček and her team blend music and dance to explore the potential of a ceaseless collective flow of thoughts. Movements trigger sounds that constantly drives new motions, all reflecting cognitive processes. An interlace of four individual entities, fighting for attention, diving into a whirl of shared thoughts with a single motive: to keep going on.
V Muzeju za arhitekturo in oblikovanje (MAO) smo 15. junija 2023 odprli prvo pregledno razstavo arhitektke in oblikovalke Janje Lap (1929–2004).
The dance piece 303 draws its title from the analogue synthesizer Roland TB-303 which was highly popular in the past decades but was later replaced with digital machines. Inspired by the intense digitalization of our lives during the pandemic, the project focuses on the relationship between our time's analogue and digital realities.
Welcome to Spider Festival 2023, a Dance study of the digital space as a field of resistance to the hegemonic contemporary choreography interfaces. We invite you to tilt in and out and encounter empty frames filled with organic materials. Welcome to the place of opacity, inhalation, and reflection. Bring all the data and expectations, and let all thought be metabolized by idiosyncratic dancers who feel their way through the world imaginatively and artfully.
Over 60 migrants from 31 countries got engaged in our educational programs in costume design, scenography, dance and music. Over 15 of them engaged in onstage performance called Creative Bodies, Movements and Live - Vulnerable Performance, the artistic expression around the topic of vulnerability, crossroads and inclusion.
Filip Štepec in Jernej Potočan nagovarjata čas, v katerem Google brskalnik najbolje pozna naš notranji svet. Za izhodišče vzemata nereflektirano vskadanjost, beg med štiri stene, skrite fantazije, ki pa se paradoksalno zrcalijo v naših brskalnikih.
Second part of Dance and Performance program will be taking place from 6 to 28 February under the mentorship of renowned dancer and choreographer Matej Kejžar. The workshop will be permeated by the mentor's otherwise creative agenda, which focuses on the deconstruction and re-construction of the technical structure, social and emotional range of dance.