TOWARDS SENSUOUS ECOLOGIES

RETHINKING ABLEISM IN CHOREOGRAPHIC AND MOVEMENT PRACTICES.

Dalija Acin Thelander will share insights into her current choreographic research aimed at young neurodiverse children and their adults as active audiences. Her research focuses on developing new transdisciplinary artistic methods that are attuned to neurodivergent perception, enabling the experience of communality, inclusiveness and empowerment through immersion, choreography, and body practices.

It aims to generate knowledge concerned with fostering sensory immediacy, kinesthetic-embodied response, affect, and intersubjectivity, by actively cherishing a diversity of perception and expression. Her project affirms practices and formats that challenge the conventional power structures inherent in performance formats and that embrace individuality. 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.