Dalija Acin Thelander (SE/RS)
Fields of Tender
Part of the Dance Baby Dance Festival
(0 to 18 MONTHS) "Fields of Tender" invites audiences into a world full of affection and love. Dance, music, sounds, objects and interactive video projections speak to the audience's curiosity and create a calm and intimate space for relaxation.
Also suitable for neurodiverse children (0 to 2 years).
Performance times and ticket sales
PLEASE NOTE:
When buying 1 ticket for “1 child + 1 adult” that gives you access for 2 people.
When buying 1 ticket for “1 child + 2 adults” that gives you access for 3 people.
Translation of ticket categories: Barn = Child / Voksen = Adult.
The show is a three-hour sensory experience that allows you to arrive and leave (and come back again) according to your child’s rhythm and needs. You purchase tickets for a specific arrival time during the three-hour period of the performance:
Morning performances at 9:30-12:30
Buy a ticket for arrival either 9:30, 10:30 or 11:30
Afternoon performances at 13:30-16:30)
Buy a ticket for arrival either 13:30, 14:30 or 15:30
Age group: 0 to 18 months (neuro diverse children 0 to 2 years)
“Fields of Tender” is a dance performance that invites its audience to enjoy and explore a world filled with affection and love. The abundance of dance, music, sounds, extraordinary objects and interactive video projections speaks to the audience’s curiosity and creates a calm and intimate space for relaxation.
The performance provides different experiences for all kinds of minds and allows for all kinds of behaviours. The audience can enjoy the performance freely and on their own terms. Within the three-hour duration, the audience can enter when they are ready, exit and re-enter during the show and leave when it suits them best.
The show is designed for all children aged 0 to 1 1/2 years. However, children with mild disabilities, Down’s Syndrome and PMLD up to 2 years old.
“Fields of Tender” is a performance created and produced within the framework of Dalija Acin Thelander’s three-year academic research project “Towards sensuous ecologies, Rethinking ableism in choreographic and movement practices”, at Stockholm University of the Arts.
About Baby Lounge and tickets
FIELDS OF TENDER is an open space where children and adults can go in and out of the installation space as needed. If you need a break, it is possible to be in the lounge. Here you can breastfeed, eat, play, puzzle, etc.
There is a maximum of 15 families inside the installation at a time, and therefore there may be a waiting period where we recommend to stay in the lounge.
Before, during and after the performances, you can use our baby lounge. Here you check in and show your tickets. And here you can leave coats, bags and other belongings you don’t want to bring to the performance. The lounge is always under supervision. There will also be the opportunity to change diapers, breastfeed, play, heat up bottles and more.
At the start and end of the performance, you will be accompanied to and from the theater hall. From the lounge to the theater there is approximately a 30 meter walk outside.
Lounge address: Valdemarsgade 1E, 8000 Aarhus
There may be a slight wait for entering the performance – we recommend staying in the baby lounge.
About Dalija Acin Thelander (SE/RS)
Dalija Acin Thelander works within the performing arts field as a freelance choreographer and researcher.
From 2008 she got involved in intensive research on interrelational choreographic practices, focused on creating immersive sensory dance performances for babies. In 2022 she started her three-year academic research project at Stockholm University of Arts, focused on developing new transdisciplinary artistic practices attuned to neurodivergent perception of the youngest children.
Her work for the youngest audiences have been presented in Japan, Korea, India, China, Singapore, Macao, Hong Kong, Brazil, South Africa and across Europe, 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 and of prestigious Swedish Expressen Culture Award in 2023.
Website: dalijaacinthelander.com
Credits
Concept, choreography and 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
Supported by:
Menų spaustuvė/Arts Printing House (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Muzeum Susch / Art Stations Foundation CH (Susch, Switzerland)
LaSala (Sabadell, Spain)
