Spider Festival 2025

A year has passed, and once again the most current names in the contemporary dance scene will gather on the plains of Ljubljana's Tivoli Park, as the Spider Festival – the festival of radical bodies – begins.

This year’s edition will witness the new encountering the familiar, the glorification of youth meeting the force of aging, production confronting reception, rhythm colliding with anti-rhythm, choreography meeting dance, and social hypnosis encountering the potential for disruption.

There will be talk and dance about the creation of matter from radical bodies. About the defiance of bodies. About trees that watched the destruction—then we listened to them. About tango that is anti-tango. About a moment where folklore and rave meet. About that special moment of consciousness just before we fall in love. Just before the revolution.