Spider Festival 2023 pays tribute to the poet, writer, actress, illustrator, and chanson singer Svetlana Makarovič.

They say poetry is eternal. They also say that a book is a weapon, which could turn poetry into a weapon. This may be true, but let's try to understand poetry as a spatial phenomenon. This would bring it significantly closer to dancing. Maybe even so much so that poetry appears as a dance. And vice versa. Movement occurs, movement rustles, breath rustles, and poetry occurs.

We invited the poet Svetlana Makarovič to the dance arts festival. Svetlana Makarovič has chosen poems that she will also read, speak, and make audible. The dancer Mikael Marklund may appear alongside or even within this space. Can poetry and dance, with their own linguistic expressions, only approach each other, or could we perhaps detect their common language, a mutual approach to, and perception of, the world? Could it be that poetry and dance turn out to be the same thing? We do not know. That's why we'll try.