Difference between revisions of "Spider Festival"

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Defying categorical delineation, the Spider project is at once a contemporary dance and performing arts festival, a transnational artistic network, a platform for modular and transferable artistic projects and a potential for mobility and residencies. While its main production vehicle is the Ljubljana based PEKINPAH Association (and its section Pekinpah Kink Kong), the actual nodal points are the specific artistic communities, based in Berlin, Brussels, Athens, Lyon, Zagreb and Ljubljana.

Though Spider operates through various activities, its primary output are events and festivals, the first one of them organised in Greece in 2010. A year after, the annual festival manifestations of Spider started in Slovenia as well, taking place at Španski borci Culture Centre. Other editions of this festival also took place at the aforementioned cities, sometimes merged with the local festivals (as for example in Athens, with Arc of Dance & Modul dance festival 2014) but usually standing on their own. Between 2012 and 2014, there were about 40 international co-organisers involved in making the events happen.

Background

Spider was initiated by three dancers and choreographers: Matej Kejžar (Slovenia), Michaël Pomero (France) and Antigone Gyra (Greece) as an international interdisciplinary structure that could transcend the established national borders, festival formats and artistic practices. They engaged various artists from different cultures and from various artistic fields and milieus (dancers, choreographers, musicians, writers, sculptors, visual artists), soon temporarily enlarging the urban triangle of Athens-Lyon-Ljubljana with events in Zagreb, Salzburg, Istanbul, Sofia and Maribor (the latter in the context of Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012 programme).

There was a number of events and festivals held under the brand of Spider and its various editions - SPIDER RES (performance residencies and research), SPIDER EVENT/GATHERINGS (performance gatherings of international artists, workshops, showings of residency results), SPIDER TALKS (a public debate and project meetings) and SPIDER EXPAND! (a festival format of Spider, called An Itinerant Artistic Manifestation) - the latter was repeated in Berlin, Brussels, Athens, Lyon, Zagreb and Ljubljana.

Spider Ljubljana

Spider was first held in Ljubljana in 2011 in Španski borci Culture Centre. It lasted three days and in partnership with En-Knap Productions and ŠKUC Association hosted a number of dance performances, workshops (a dancing one for children and also one on visual creation and the other on writing), discussions and parties. A year later, the same place hosted the international dance project Spider: At once, and in 2013 – under the name Spider Expand! – a festival was once again organised in 2013, hosting artists from Slovenia, Croatia, France, Belgium, Austria, Netherlands, Hungary, Brazil in Great Britian. The festival than moved to Stara Elektrarna - Old Power and called itself Spider White in 2014 and Spider Slang in 2015, still bringing an exciting and genre unbound program, from body art to contemporary dance, from exhibitions to concerts.

Some of the foreign artists that were invited to the Ljubljana based Spider events were Cécile Laloy (FR), Gabriel Smeets (NL), Pavlos Kountouriotis (GR / UK), Fernando Belfiore (BR / NL), Benjamin Sebastian (UK), Julien Monty & Michaël Pomero (FR), Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen (DN), Alexandros Psychoulis & Yannis Arvanitis (GR); of the local ones, there were Matej Kejžar, Leja Jurišić and Teja Reba, Urša Vidic, Andreja Kopač, Ana Romih, Rosana Hribar, etc.

As spider is also a network, it means that these artists were hosted in other Spider cities as well.

External links

Spider website

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-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.
+Defying categorical delineation, the [[Spider Festival|Spider]] project is at once a contemporary dance and performing arts festival, a transnational artistic network, a platform for modular and transferable artistic projects and a potential for mobility and residencies. While its main production vehicle is the Ljubljana based [[PEKINPAH Association]] (and its section Pekinpah Kink Kong), the actual nodal points are the specific artistic communities, based in Berlin, Brussels, Athens, Lyon, Zagreb and Ljubljana.
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+Though Spider operates through various activities, its primary output are events and festivals, the first one of them organised in Greece in [[established::2010]]. A year after, the annual festival manifestations of Spider started in Slovenia as well, taking place at [[Španski borci Culture Centre]]. Other editions of this festival also took place at the aforementioned cities, sometimes merged with the local festivals (as for example in Athens, with Arc of Dance & Modul dance festival 2014) but usually standing on their own. Between 2012 and 2014, there were about 40 international co-organisers involved in making the events happen.
-== Background ==
+==Background==
-The first [[Spider Festival]] took place in Greece in [[established::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.
+Spider was initiated by three dancers and choreographers: [[Matej Kejžar]] (Slovenia), Michaël Pomero (France) and Antigone Gyra (Greece) as an international interdisciplinary structure that could transcend the established national borders, festival formats and artistic practices. They engaged various artists from different cultures and from various artistic fields and milieus (dancers, choreographers, musicians, writers, sculptors, visual artists), soon temporarily enlarging the urban triangle of Athens-Lyon-Ljubljana with  events in Zagreb, Salzburg,  Istanbul, Sofia and Maribor (the latter in the context of [[Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012]] programme).
+There was a number of events and festivals held under the brand of Spider and its various editions - SPIDER RES (performance residencies and research), SPIDER EVENT/GATHERINGS (performance gatherings of international artists, workshops, showings of residency results), SPIDER TALKS (a public debate and project meetings) and SPIDER EXPAND! (a festival format of Spider, called ''An Itinerant Artistic Manifestation'') - the latter was repeated in Berlin, Brussels, Athens, Lyon, Zagreb and Ljubljana.
+==Spider Ljubljana==
+Spider was first held in Ljubljana in 2011 in [[Španski borci Culture Centre]]. It lasted three days and in partnership with [[En-Knap Productions]] and [[ŠKUC Association]] hosted a number of dance performances, workshops (a dancing one for children and also one on visual creation and the other on writing), discussions and parties. A year later, the same place hosted the international dance project Spider: At once, and in 2013 &ndash; under the name Spider Expand! &ndash; a festival was once again organised in 2013, hosting artists from Slovenia, Croatia, France, Belgium, Austria, Netherlands, Hungary, Brazil in Great Britian. The festival than moved to [[Stara Elektrarna - Old Power]] and called itself Spider White in 2014 and Spider Slang in 2015, still bringing an exciting and genre unbound program, from body art to contemporary dance, from exhibitions to concerts.
+Some of the foreign artists that were invited to the Ljubljana based Spider events were Cécile Laloy (FR), Gabriel Smeets (NL), Pavlos Kountouriotis (GR / UK), Fernando Belfiore (BR / NL), Benjamin Sebastian (UK), Julien Monty & Michaël Pomero (FR), Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen (DN), Alexandros Psychoulis & Yannis Arvanitis (GR); of the local ones, there were [[Matej Kejžar]], [[Leja Jurišić]] and [[Teja Reba,]] [[Urša Vidic]], [[Andreja Kopač]], [[Ana Romih]], [[Rosana Hribar]], etc.
+As spider is also a network, it means that these artists were hosted in other Spider cities as well.
 == See also ==
 *[[PEKINPAH Association]]
+*[[Španski borci Culture Centre]]
+*[[Stara Elektrarna - Old Power]]
 == External links ==
-*[http://www.spiderontheedge.org/places/ljubljana/festival  Spider Festival in Ljubljana in 2015]
+*[http://www.spiderontheedge.org/ Spider website]
 [[Category:Festivals]]
 [[Category:Dance festivals]]
 [[Category:Dance]]

Difference between revisions of "Spider Festival"

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Background

Spider Ljubljana

See also

External links

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