Nicola Visser (she/her) is a community dance artist. She is South African and now lives in the farmlands of northern Denmark. Nicola is devoted to holding safe and bold spaces of dance exploration for people of all levels of dance experience. Her teaching contexts vary from dance studio to university classes, from community halls to outdoor fields.
For many years in South Africa Nicola founded and directed Remix Dance Company - a professional integrated dance company. She continues to teach integrated dance after moving to Denmark in 2017. Nicola’s current joy is holding space for contemplative dance (CDP) and land-body explorations, exploring the vibrant space between witness and mover. These are offered in regular class and workshop format in and around Aarhus, DK. Her recent project was a practice-as- research masters in improvisations for the witness. Along with these ‘close dancing’ methods, Nicola also does ‘close drawing’. These practices are nourished by her study of Embodied Critical Thinking and TAE (Thinking at the Edge).
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This is the fourth episode of the LACE Symposium podcast, the official podcast of the LACE Symposium for Dance and Other Contemporary Practices.
The host of this episode, dance artist, educator, and curator of LACE Symposium pavleheidler (pav) (they/them) (adhd/autism), talks to Nicola Visser (she/her), dance artist, teacher, and the host of the integration space at this year’s symposium.
The central question the conversation revolves around is, What does your experience of being a dance artist and communicating through the medium of dance affords you; what kind of observational capacity, what kind of capacity to act?
This is the first in a series of conversations held with contributors to this year's symposium. With this series we are hoping to introduce the symposium, its curators, and the contributors to the public in anticipation of the event itself. In our conversations, we are committed to "leading by example". We're hoping that what we say and how we say it will introduce us in an affective way, in a different capacity perhaps from our bios and CVs. To find out more about who we are, and read our bios, please visit www.lacesymposium.com.
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We talked extensively of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain. The Living Mountain is available in print and as an audiobook narrated by Tilda Swinton, which I highly recommend listening to.
Nicola’s Master Thesis Expose is available via Research Catalogue. We refer to Nicola’s master thesis directly and indirectly all through the conversation.
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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.
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LACE Symposium is curated by Deirdre Morris (she/they), Sylvia Scheidl (she/her), and pavleheidler (they/them). LACE Symposium takes place in July in the context of ImPulsTanz -- Vienna International Dance Festival. LACE Symposium is supported by Erasmus+.