Recepient of the Croatian Theatre Award 2024 for the best overall performance in dance for "House Bolero", choreographed by Matej Kejžar.

Recepient of the Ksenija Hribar Award 2023 for his dance opus as an ‘outstanding dancer and powerful creator who inspires’ by Slovenian Contemporary Dance Association.

Matej Kejžar (SI/BE) graduated from Amsterdam’s SNDO programme and Brussels at X-Group P.A.R.T.S. and was an exchange student at the Trisha Brown Dance Company in New York. Already at the beginning of his career, he created many outstanding and critically-acclaimed performances. After finishing his studies, he created a number of critically-acclaimed choreographies in Slovenia. In 2007, Kejžar moved to Brussels where he worked with Rosas (The Song, Cesena). Kejžar collaborated with Boris Charmatz on the 20 Dancers for the XX Century.

Since 2011, he has been developing his oeuvre between Brussels and Ljubljana while he also regularly creates performances all over the world (India, Singapore, Brazil). Kejžar performance Rave premiered at the Avignon Theatre Festival. 

He has been the initiator and artistic director of Spider festival for radical bodies. Spider’s first edition was held in Athens, Greece (2009) and followed by editions in four European cities (Lyon, Zagreb, Berlin, Brussels) until settling as an annual festival held in Ljubljana since 2015. Deeply involved in the European most progressive and intriguing dance productions, it is those dance climaxes he brings to Slovenia within the Festival Spider every year