Who We Are
Production: Pekinpah
Spider is an international Dance and performance arts festival that celebrates unconventional, radical, and non-normative artistic expressions. It highlights queer, feminist, and transgenerational perspectives, all of which has earned it a reputation as a Festival of Radical Bodies.
What is now a festival began in 2010 as a project initiated by choreographer and dancer Matej Kejžar, who wanted to intertwine dance arts with critical thought. This concept continues to be the main thread of the festival to this day. At Spider, the audiences have the opportunity to see performances by both renowned and emerging artists in the fields of dance, choreography, innovative and hybrid genres, and artistic explorations of contemporary technologies and social systems, as well as participate in thought-provoking discussions. Spider is an open-air festival held in the Plečnik Auditorium in Ljubljana’s Tivoli Park.
Credits
Dancer, Dancemaker, and Artistic Director of the festival: Matej Kejžar
Festival Director: Žiga Predan
Curator of Festival of Radical Talks: dr. PhD Bara Kolenc
Festival Ambassador: Leja Jurišić
DJ programme: Angela Steiner
PR: Mojca Zupanič
Social media: Angela Steiner
Digital Marketing: Bighead Lab
Food: SuperCatering
Spider bar: Spider & Špela Ličina
Festival Technical Director: Borut Cajnko
Technical team: Oskar Bohinc, Borut Bučinel, Leon Curk, Tomo Hrovat, Hotimir Knific,
Anže Kreč, Sinaj Kreč, Martin Lovšin, Grega Mohorčič, Aleksander Plut, Špela Škulj, Miha Zupan
Sound equipment: Luka Bernetič
Producer: Žiga Predan
Assistant producers: Polett Kasza, Irena Silić, Špela Tušar, Jasmina Klančar, Hristjan Nashulovski, Tea Hvala, Katrin Agnes Fröhlich
Copywriter & Copywrite help: Nina Dragičević
Festival photographer: Matija Lukić
Video: Lana Požlep, Hana Vodeb z ekipo with the team
Design: Boris Balant
Print: Digifot
Production: Pekinpah
Ljubljana, June 2025
Acknowledgements: Nevenka Šivavec, Yasmin Martin Vodopivec, Dušan Dovč (MGLC), David Potočnik / Totalism.org, Zeliščno posestvo Cvetka.
Partners: MGLC – Mednarodni grafični likovni center, Center kulture Španski borci / EN-KNAP, KD Qulenium
Accommodation partners: B&B Hotel Ljubljana Park
Mladina
Festival is co-financed by: Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana – Department for Culture, Ljubljana Tourism,
THANK YOU.
A big thank you to all the visiting artists, thank you for your thoughts and movements and radical ideas for radical bodies.Thank you to the donors for your generous contributions that significantly helped in the creation of the 14th Spider Festival. And a huge thank you to the entire Spider team.