SYMPOSIUM

for Dance and Other Contemporary Practices
LACE #3: Materialising Touch
hospitality, integration, and the interstitial
14–25 July 2025

1. LACE #3
2. Opening
3. Deep Dives
4. Integration Space
5. LACE Extended & Short Snacks
6. LACE Movement Dance Classes
7. Participation
8. Fee & Contact
9. Cancellation Policy

LACE #3

Structurally, LACE #3: Materialising Touch combines the LACE Symposium and LACE Extended into a 10-day research period for practitioners in performance, dance pedagogy, academia, and related fields.

LACE Symposium, held from 14–18 July 2025, offers a series of deep dives that emphasise the merging of practice and thought through practice. It provides intensive days of meeting, practicing, and creative exchange.

LACE Extended, taking place from 21–25 July 2025, offers Symposium participants the opportunity to extend their time in relation to the deep dive presenters, their practices, and the wider participant community.

Opening

This evening opens a week of diving into exploring integration as a complex process. What does it mean to consider integration an essential, creative activity and a central aspect of experience? Frédéric Gies, Rachel Tess and Michael Turinsky will share a performative conversation on their perspectives and approaches to integration in their artistic work. If you enjoy thinking, imagining, sensing, dancing and reflecting – all at once, come join us!

Hosts of the Opening: Deirdre Morris, pavleheidler, Sylvia Scheidl
With Frédéric Gies, Rachel Tess, and Michael Turinsky

Deep Dives

A deep dive is a practice-based exchange that emphasises relational experiencing of a body of research and/or artistic practice shared by a presenter coming from art, academia and/or activism.
Find the details and updates here.

A Tradition of Being Together
Abtin Gholampour

IN/TENSE
Alexa Wilson

Body.Motion.Etch
Carolin Müller

ink(y)press/ure
Joanna Cook

IN-VISIBLE - How to Integrate People with Sight Disabilities into LGBTQ+ Community?
Pawel Swierczek

Dans i Vardagsrum  - Living Room Dance
Rachel Tess & Frédéric Gies

Post-3M0T1NG -  spectral relationality »&« networked emoting
Zander Porter

Integration Space

LACE #3 dedicates time for processing, practicing and integrating from the perspective that those activities are essential in creative processes. All participants will do this together facilitated by a host.

The Alive Unnamed Thing
Nicola Visser

LACE Extended & Short Snacks

In a short ‘snack’ at the LACE Symposium, the LACE Extended hosts offer a taste of their material. The following week after, LACE Extended provides an full-day, in-depth exchange through the thematic prism of the LACE Extended host. Find out here how to apply to take part.

Willing & Able – 4 Days, 4 Plants, ∞ Lessons
Tereza Silon

We Can Plant, Spin, Weave, Shape between Hands and Hearts
Yas Lamar

card.glitches.me (online)
Naoto Hieda

Language of communication is English.
Curated by pavleheidler, Deirdre Morris, and Sylvia Scheidl.

LACE Movement Dance Classes

LACE Movement Dance Classes

These classes happen in the mornings before the LACE Symposium giving everybody the chance to get in touch with the Deep Dive contributors of LACE Symposium. Come join their classes sharing their projects, practices, and experience their teaching.

Emoting
Zander Porter

A Favorite T-shirt Kind of Class
Nicola Visser

Embroidery and Ballet
Rachel Tess

Embodied Practices of (At)tension
Joanna Cook