Join the series of free, open-level classes offered by the LACE Symposium in the mornings before the official program begins!

This class explores embodied attunement—through stretching and slowing down. It is a practice of pleasurable resistance, where stretch and strain share breath; a way of thinking with space, speed, weight, and the felt edge of effort. Movement becomes a series of small interruptions—a practice of noticing, of staying with uncertainty, of folding back in on oneself.

The practices draw on the root word tendere: to stretch, to reach toward, to hold attention in tension. Tension requires relation. Hindrance meets support. Effort is redistributed as bodies brace one another and remain with the labor of stretch—micro-shifts accumulating into direction.

What is present? What calls for attention? What do we turn toward—and what do we turn away from?

The class is open to everyone—all levels and backgrounds are welcome.

 

Symposium LACE #3: Materialising Touch