CRACE— Centre for Research in Arts and Creative Exchange, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of Roehampton
warmly invites you to the talk:
“Towards sensuous ecologies, Rethinking ableism in choreographic and movement practices” by Dalija Aćin Thelander
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This is a presentation of a three-year research project by Dalija Aćin Thelander, a researcher in choreography at Stockholm University of Arts. Dalija will share insights into her current choreographic practice, which informs her funded research project (2022-2024). Her research aspires to expand the scope of action and perception of neurodiverse children and their adult carers as active audiences in interrelational, immersive sensory environments. Dalija’s international artistic practice is a basis of research project which aims to develop new transdisciplinary artistic framework attuned to neurodivergent perception, enabling the experience of communality, inclusiveness, and empowerment of young children.
It consists of multifaceted, emergent processes that interlace practice and reflection through a cyclical series of work with movement, choreography, and visual-sonorous installation making. The core of her research aims to inquire into how immersion and interaction, as negotiated processes, can lead towards sensuous, ever-changing ecologies of an event comprised of fluid aesthetic structures, aimed at integrated audience.
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CRACE EVENT at University of Roehampton,
Froebel College, Grove House, Terrace Room (Gh.004)
20th April, 2023
12pm-2pm
Everyone welcome, no booking required.
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BIOGRAPHY
Dalija Aćin Thelander works within the performing arts as a freelance choreographer and researcher. Her work aspires to contribute to the field of choreography as expanded practice and focuses on audience's agency, intersensoriality, and emplacement. From 2008 she is involved in intensive research on interrelational choreographic practices, focused on creating immersive sensory dance performances exclusively for neurotypical babies. In 2022 she started her three-year academic research project at Stockholm University of Arts, focused on developing new transdisciplinary artistic methods focused on fostering sensory immediacy, kinesthetic-embodied response, affect, and intersubjectivity, attuned to neurodivergent perception of the youngest children. She designs and makes immersive scenographies and costumes for her performances. 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 teaching and lecturing internationally and is the recipient of ASSITEJ International Artistic Excellence Award in 2021 and of prestigious Swedish Expressen Culture Award in 2023. In addition, she presented her choreography internationally in numerous festivals such as Impulstanz, Tanz im August (Vienna) where she received Prix Jardin d’Europe at Impulstanz Festival 2008. She initiated and coordinated the Generator, A collaborative platform for development of dance theater for children in the Balkans, co-founded of Station Service for Contemporary Dance (Stanica, Belgrade), Kondenz Festival and Nomad Dance Academy. She collaborated with numerous theatre directors and won several awards for choreography for drama and theatre. Dalija is Serbian-born , and from 2012 based in Stockholm, Sweden.
On behalf of CRACE,
Dr. Tamara Tomić-Vajagić
Senior Lecturer in Dance Practices (Visual Culture)
School of Arts and Creative Industries
University of Roehampton
SW15 5PU
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