LACE Symposium

Tia Reihana presented at the 2020 IDOCDE Symposium, but only via Zoom. We’re beyond excited for Tia to be joining the 2026 symposium in person!

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Written by Tia:

This work enters taniwha territories, spaces sensed through shifts between body, material, and place. Taniwha are approached as ancestral presences linked to depth and unseen conditions. The work attends to arrival, where the body carries memory. Through breath, archive, and recycled materials, it explores fragments, traces, and relation. Raranga offers a way to hold this, an ongoing weaving of body, story, and place, shaped through small tasks and responsive movement.

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I am a dance artist, researcher, and educator working across choreography, installation, and embodied research. My practice understands the body as a site of knowledge, shaped through relationships to place. I work with movement as listening, attending to breath, memory, and environment. I developed Te Mana Motuhake o te Kauri as a relational framework grounded in autonomy, connection, and embodied exchange. My work moves across site, studio, and community, remaining process-based and evolving.

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Made with the support of PART Residency, and ImPulsTanz — Vienna International Dance Festival!

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or OeAD-GmbH. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

we are so pleased to share the honour of this year’s first deep dive with Satu Palokangas!

Written by Satu:

Guided by the question written in the title, this offering invites us into an exploration of the porous, leaking wilderness of our physical forms. Drawing from ecosomatics, cellular biology, and microbiome studies, we explore the body as a site of encounter and emergence, through its symbiotic ecologies, held within multiple fields of relation. Through practices of going under, of expanding time, of attending to the barely-perceptible, we move and touch our way toward generative co-embodiment, while meeting our bodies’ glorious unfinishedness.

While living in a Welsh permaculture community in the early 1990s, I realized I wanted to practice something like permaculture but with far more dancing and bodywork involved. That quest led me to the study and practice of Body-Mind Centering®. These days I teach within BMC®, Laban/Bartenieff and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy certification trainings, run my own somatic offerings, and work at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki exploring ecosomatics and radical regenerative practices with acting students.

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Made with the support of PART Residency, and ImPulsTanz — Vienna International Dance Festival!

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or OeAD-GmbH. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

FULL PROGRAM OUT NOW!

LACE No. 4: Fractalising Touch
hospitality, integration, & the interstitial
27–31 July 2026. Registration is now OPEN!

www.lacesymposium.com

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!

curated by Deirdre Morris, Sylvia Scheidl, & pavlehidler.

with Satu Palokangas, Stéphanie Janaina, Tia Reihana, Amaara Raheem, Zrinka Šimičić, Ella Hillström, Olive Bieringa, & Kerstin Kussmaul!

🏡 ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival

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Made with the support of ImPulsTanz — Vienna International Dance Festival!

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or OeAD-GmbH. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.