LACE #3: Materialising Touch
hospitality, integration, & the interstitial
LACE Symposium for Dance and Other Contemporary Practices at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
July 14-18, 2025 LACE Symposium July 21-25, 2025 LACE Extended
Welcome to the Official Website of LACE Symposium & LACE Extended.
LACE Symposium is a symposium for dance and other contemporary practices committed to bringing together practitioners working at the intersection of art, academia, and activism to examine the challenge of place, the restriction of its specificity, and to explore strategies for successful interpersonal cross-cultural contact-making in the age of gentrification, polarisation, and segregation.
We create opportunities for artists and researchers working with body-based practices across genres to come together in practice-based exchange. What this means is that we don’t simply invite artists researchers to describe their work or report on their discoveries. At LACE Symposium artists researchers engage the public in an experiment, and disseminate their observation through action.
LACE Extended takes place the week after the Symposium, offering the participants of the Symposium the opportunity to extend the amount of time spent in-relation to presenters and their practices, and other participants of the event.
(link to the ImPulsTanz website)
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“From strangers, to acquaintances, to companions? The LACE Symposium at the ImPulsTanz festival is not just an academic meeting. In an age of loneliness and physical disconnection lies an urgent emphasis on sensory perception, new movements and questions about how we can truly be together.”
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