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?
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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.
Read moreSpider festival 2023
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.
Creative bodies, Movements and Live - Vulnerable performance
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.
Read morecreative bodies in movement: dance and performance 2
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.
Read morecreative bodies in movement: PREPARATORY WORKSHOPS
The final set of educational programs within Creative Bodies in Movement, the preparatory workshops and engagement in a stage performance production, will be taking place from 13 to 28 February. The workshops are organised as individual counselling by renowned artists and mentors to help participants prepare and give public presentation of the project.
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Second part of Dance and Performance program will be taking place from 3 to 17 October 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.
Read moreSTD – Spending Time Dancing
Spending Time Dancing presents Matej Kejžar’s artistic experimentation with Dancing discharged from the drive for choreography. In order to relieve dance from the burden, constructed in the concept of choreography, the burden of a carefully planned succession of movements as progress, the dancers indulge in the processes that defy the linearity of both movement and time. They compost.
Read moreSpider festival 2022
Join us in disrupting the normative, the fixed, the harmonious. Enter the sphere of exploration, attentive listening and subtle encounters, dance, cinematic performances, music performances, DJ sets, hangouts, and interactions. Welcome to Spider Festival 2022!
Movements 9
A ‘favourite album’ as a choreographic frame where dance resonates between proto-knowing, rhythm, musical force, listening and hearing, narration and abstraction. From this ‘favourite album’ a new dance piece arises, a new dynamic territory. Within music, in a parallel which is precisely here.
Read moreSpider festival 2021
To have art wait for better times? Thanks, but no thanks. Here comes the 10th (TENTH!)
Spider Festival – festival of radical bodies, radical dance, radical thought. Tivoli Park in
Ljubljana, June 16 to 20. Just like last year, but different, never the same. Long live the
movement!
LS DIGITAL
Matej Kejžar is arriving with the continuation of his complex project Language Sausage (LS) and presents us with a solo dance piece LS-Digital. He confronts the digital and the bodily. The digitalist paradigm is not something he takes for granted or dismisses easily. On the contrary, he calls for an contemplational and artistic immersion into the core of this topic.
Read moreSPIDER FESTIVAL 2020
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 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 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 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 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.
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