From cutting-edge dance performances to laid-back DJ sets, from fresh names to trailblazers in dance arts, this is Spider 2025 – a Festival of Radical Bodies.
Welcome to Spider Festival 2025!
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Date:
18–21 June 2025
Venue:
Tivoli Park, Plečnik Auditorium
Spider Festival brings together an international and transgenerational community of dancers, choreographers, thinkers, DJs, and audiences. Taking place outdoors, in Ljubljana’s beloved Park Tivoli, Spider is an artistic sphere of openness, deep breaths and uninhibited movements.
The 14th edition of Spider Festival will see the new meet the familiar, the glorification of youth clash with the force of ageing, rhythm with antirhythm, and social hypnotism with the potential for disruption. We will articulate and dance the bodily creation of matter. We shall be the resistance. We will listen to trees that have witnessed destruction, create antitango tango, and embrace the moment folklore meets rave, that special moment of consciousness just before we fall in love, just before the revolution.
What to expect?
While the schedule is available at the festival’s official website, let us take a moment to name-drop some of the artists that will be joining the festival this year:
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Boštjan Antončič, Lisa Vereertbrugghen, Niño de Elche, Igor Shyshko, Laima Jaunzema & Maciej Sado, Jimmy Barka Experience, Georgia Vardarou, Thomas Hauert/ZOO, Jurij Konjar & Kaja Draksler.
The festival will feature our annual Radical talks and, for our younger audience, the Baby Spider program. A smooth ride throughout the festival will be ensured by the safe musical hands of our favourite local DJs estera, Anásta, lottie, maša, and gpngpn. Plus, Friday night is sure to be a blast, as Acidheaven, one of Berlin’s most exciting DJs, is taking over the decks.