The Sun Practice

How many times can you repeat a word before the word melts off your tongue, like butter melts off a hot piece of toast? its meaning dripping from your lip, getting caught in your beard. Did you even know you could grow a beard? [pause] Staring blankly at the wall, you’re scared of touching your chin. Don’t be. Whether or not a beard is growing there, you are still here, you are still you. Plus, there are so many ways to remove unwanted hair off a human body. The more important question to consider is, what are you going to do about those extra limbs that, last night, you grew in your sleep? There are not so many people walking around with four arms sticking out of their shoulders.

The Sun Practice celebrates the work of Judith Butler, J. L. Austin, and Ferdinand de Saussure, who all had reason to observe the relationship between the signifier and the signified, and call it arbitrary.

The Sun Practice is a principle-based performative practice. It was first discovered by a young person’s desk, on a sunny day in Bruxelles, in the Spring of 2011.

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type: performative practice

date: MAR 8

time: 16.00h

place: Skånes Dansteater, Malmö

context: performed in the context of TEA SALON: ALL OUR RELATIONS organised by Marie Klawitter, part of the RESHUFFLING RELATIONS Festival for Somatic Movement, Improvisation, Dance & Performance curated by Tuva Hildebrand

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SENSING, FOR DANCERS

What is the use of anatomical knowledge for dancers? What difference can knowing we’re experiencing seeing with our brain and not our eyes make? Or that sensing isn’t something we do, but something that happens spontaneously—whether we like it or not?

This workshop revolves around the question of use. The question of use is meant to narrow down our field of vision such that neither somatics nor dancing can escape critical reflection. The way I understand it, it is when we assume either somatics or dancing to be useful – or not useful – “just because” that we start running into trouble. So how do we stop assuming value and begin developing new approaches to practicing somatics as dancers or dancing as somatic practitioners?

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type: workshop

date: MAR 9

time: 18.00h

place: Alma Söderberg Studio, Malmö

context: part of the RESHUFFLING RELATIONS Festival for Somatic Movement, Improvisation, Dance & Performance curated by Tuva Hildebrand

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LACE #4: Fractalising Touch

hospitality, integration, & the interstitial

JULY 27-31, 2026

at ImPulsTanz — Vienna International Dance Festival

This year, curators Deirdre Morris, Sylvia Scheidl, and pavleheidler, engage with embodied practitioners working across genres to explore themes commonly associated with the notion of the interstitial.

The interest in the elusive, the tensegral, the emergent, and the relational arises spontaneously (some would say: organically) as we work towards the final instalment in a four-year-long arch dedicated to exploring a range of socio-political, professional, artistic, and therapeutic aspects of touch at the intersection of art, academia, and activism.

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The LACE Symposium is a practice-based symposium. At LACE Symposium 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 Symposium is part of the Interlace: Art and Action in Contemporary Dance Education project funded by the European Union, Erasmus+. LACE & INTERLACE are supported by ImPulsTanz — Vienna International Dance Festival.

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type: symposium

date: July 27-31

time: 10AM-6PM

place: Vienna

context: part of the ImPulsTanz — Vienna International Dance Festival

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