Spider Festival

Contact

Festival Spider

http://www.spiderontheedge.org/places/ljubljana/festival

info@SpiderOnTheEdge.org

Organised byPekinpah Kink Kong

Frequencyannual

Festival dates13.6.2015 - 14.6.2015

The SPIDER project was initiated by three dancers and choreographers: Matej Kejžar (Slovenia), Michaël Pomero (France), who met in Brussels (at Rosas) and Antigone Gyra (Greece), with an aim of extending neurotical edges of national borders, festival formats and artistic practices. The project weaves a web of mobility with around 40 artists from different countries and cultures and from various artistic fields and milieus (dancers, choreographers, musicians, writers, sculptors, visual artists). Its production platform is PEKINPAH Association and its section Pekinpah Kink Kong.

Background

The first Spider Festival took place in Greece in 2010: THE SPIDER NET goes out to the streets and invites all Athenians: Greeks, immigrants, straight, gay, unemployed, working, retired, married and single. At the festival in Athens also Slovene artists were involved as choreographers, actors, visual artists and writers (Matej Kejžar, Leja Jurišić and Teja Reba, Urša Vidic, Andreja Kopač). The SPIDER continued its (net)work at the Španski borci Culture Centre in Ljubljana (March 2011), Lyon (November 2011), Zagreb and Salzburg (December 2011). The SPIDER made also a part of the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012 programme and included of Maribor, Istanbul and Sofia in The SPIDER 2012-2014.

See also

• PEKINPAH Association

External links

• Spider Festival in Ljubljana in 2015