Go to main content

Performative practices for neurodiverse children

Towards Sensuous Ecologies: Performative practices and stage design attuned to neurodiverse perception and various physicality in immersive dance performances for young audiences 

Dalija Acin Thelander will share insights into her current choreographic practice and academic research focused on neurodiverse children and their adults as active audiences in interrelational, immersive sensory environments. Within the lecture she will present transdisciplinary artistic methods that are attuned to neurodivergent perception and various physicality, which enable the experience of communality, inclusiveness, and empowerment. She will introduce stage design and performance structuring which are actively cherishing a diversity of perception and expression, and share her investigation into how choreography and dance can unfold and promote an interrelational ecology of artistic experience supportive of complex audience heterogeneity as well as how body and performance practices can be responsive to and be informed by this diverse audience. She will share insights into how immersion and interaction, as negotiated processes, can lead towards sensuous, ever-changing ecologies of performance event. She will elaborate the ways in which these facets converge with a specific focus on engaging young audiences, where each element is meticulously guided by the fundamental principle emphasizing the embodied ways of knowing and primacy of embodied perception over intellection. 

The seminar is held in English.

Host: Dalija Acin Thelander, Choreographer

 

Time and place

15:30 - 17:00