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Fields of Tender (6 months to 10 years)

Immersive durational dance performance for babies and children with disabilities* |

Dalija Acin Thelander | Sweden |

***Note for the professional audience! To a certain extent, professionals can attend Fields of Tender in three time slots of 45 minutes each. These special tickets will be allocated via accreditation by Kata Kovács, if you are interested to attend please write to: accreditation@fratz-festival.de

The capacity for this piece is very small. It is important to us and the artists that the performances are available for the target groups, therefore the tickets available at eventim are only intended for the respective children* and their accompanying persons.

Thank you for your understanding!

Fields of Tender is an enchanting and playful, dance performance, which immerses you in an imaginary world of tenderness, affection and love. Within this awe-inspiring, sensual world, the extravagant and peculiar events interlace with ethereal and gentle ones.

The performance flow welcomes the audience's curiosity as well as provides them with a calm and intimate space for relaxation. The abundance of dance, music, sounds, extraordinary objects and interactive video projections fosters the audience togetherness, easefulness and empowerment.

Fields of Tender caters to all senses and embraces every individual. The performance provides various extents of experiences for all types of perceptions and it welcomes all kinds of behaviors. The audience is invited to enjoy the performance freely and on their own terms. Within the several hours of duration the audience can come in when they are ready, exit and re-enter during the show, and leave when it suits them the most.

Audience and performers are sharing the same space where the performance takes place. You are free to sit anywhere in the space, on the floor, and freely move around at any time. You are welcome in the space in the wheelchairs too. Everything in the space is touch-friendly, including the dancers, with whom you can always communicate in case you need to share something with them or you have some questions.

*There will be four performances of Fields of tender aimed at different audience groups. Please make sure you belong to the target group before booking to ensure everyone will have a pleasant theatre experience.

1) Sunday, Oct. 13, 11 am to 1:30 pm: Performance for neurotypical babies from 6 months up to 24 months as well as neurodivergent babies & children and children with disabilities up to 4 years.

2) Sunday, Oct. 13, 3 pm to 5:30 pm: Performance for neurodivergent children and children with disabilities from 5 to 10 years.

3) Monday, Oct. 14, 10 am to 12:30 pm: Performance for neurodivergent children and children with disabilities from 5 to 10 years. (Groups)

4) Monday, Oct. 14, 15 pm to 17:30 pm: Performance for neurotypical babies from 6 months up to 24 months as well as neurodivergent babies & children and children with disabilities up to 4 years.

Fields of Tender is a performance created and produced in the frame of Dalija Acin Thelander’s three-year academic research project “Towards sensuous ecologies, Rethinking ableism in choreographic and movement practices”, carried out at Stockholm University of Arts/Dance Department and supported by Swedish Research Council. The purpose of the research is to develop new transdisciplinary artistic methods that are attuned to neurodivergent perception, enabling the experience of communality, inclusiveness and empowerment through immersion, choreography and body practices. On Sunday October 13th at 6pm Dalija Acin Thelander will present her research in a lecture at English Theatre | International Performing Arts Centre.

Dalija Acin Thelander works within the performing arts field as a freelance choreographer and researcher. From 2008 she gets involved in intensive research on inter relational choreographic practices, focused on creating immersive sensory dance performances for babies. In 2022 she starts her three-year academic research project at Stockholm University of Arts.. Her work for the youngest audiences has been presented worldwide, as well as commissioned by performances for Royal Opera in Stockholm in 2017 and 2022. She is the recipient of ASSITEJ International Artistic Excellence Award in 2021. www.dalijaacinthelander.com

Concept, choreography & overall design: Dalija Acin Thelander
In collaboration with and performed by: Noah Hellwig, Jimmie Larsson, Dalija Acin Thelander
Music: Thomas Jeker
Digital animation: Filip Mikic

Premiere: March 2023

Duration: durational (150 minutes)

Without spoken language, accessible for blind, visually impaired as well deaf audiences. Accessible for neurodivergent babies and children with disabilities.*

Production by Dalija Acin Thelander.

Supported by Menų spaustuvė/Arts Printing House (Vilnius, Lithuania), Muzeum Susch | Art Stations Foundation CH (Susch, Switzerland), LaSala (Sabadell, Spain).

Trailer: vimeo.com/822495462

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