LACE Symposium

Zrinka joins us this year a collaborator on the INTERLACE project. INTERLACE: Art and Action in Contemporary Dance Education is funded by the European Union, Erasmus+. INTERLACE aims to provide dance educators learning environments and peer-to-peer-exchanges for knowledge transfer and for developing inclusive methodologies for teaching creative dance to diverse local communities. Inclusive methodologies are understood as methods and tools aimed at making students feel acknowledged, empowered, and situated in their physical and creative bodies.

Written by Zrinka:

This deep dive will highlight the immune system as a model of collaboration, foregrounding processes of learning through encounter, and the capacity to adapt, respond and ‘predict the unpredictable’. It adopts the title From Cell (Unity) to Community from a series of somatic sessions and workshops developed within the SomaHut program. The title further refers to broader processes that underpin the growth and organization of life on Earth.

A central aim of the SomaHut initiative is to facilitate the transformation of individuals and communities through encounter and collaboration—investigating what the body and the processes that shape it can reveal about learning, support, cooperation and collective practice, following the journey from cell to community.

bio: Zrinka Šimičić is a Zagreb-based dance artist, educator and somatic practitioner. She trained at Laban/Bartenieff Somatic Studies International and completed the SME and IDME programs, and is in the process of completing the Practitioner Program at the School for Body-Mind Centering®. Her artistic research and teaching emerge from an ongoing inquiry into the processes that shape our experience of the living body in and as community, with particular attention to the dynamic between shared and personal dimensions. She collaborates and teaches across diverse contexts, working with students, professional and amateur dancers, children and vulnerable groups. She is the founder of the SomaHut initiative, co-founder of the Improspekcije improvisation festival, and artistic director of Multimedia Hut. She is a faculty member at the Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (Dance Department) and also teaches in postgraduate programs in Dance Movement Psychotherapy in Zagreb and Osijek.

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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.



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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!

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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.