Fields Of Tender
▶︎ Dalija Acin Thelander
We‘ve worked with Dalija since 2023, with a focus on presenting her ambitious new work, Fields of Tender - both in the UK and internationally.
Image Credit: Krsto Vulovic
Dalija Acin Thelander is a choreographer and dance artist based in Sweden that has an extensive practice focused on creating installation work for babies and their families and who has pioneered a form of durational presentation. More recently Dalija’s work has expanded to include a focus on disabled children and their grown ups. TVC commenced work with Dalija in 2023, with a focus on presenting Dalija’s new work, Fields of Tender in the UK and internationally.
Image Credit: Courtesy of Kitoks Festival
Fields of Tender is a dance performance which invites its audience to enjoy and explore imaginary worlds inspired by tenderness, affection and love. The abundance of dance, music, sounds, extraordinary objects and interactive video projections welcomes the audience's curiosity as well as provides a calm and intimate space for relaxation. 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.
Dalija says about her practice:
Fundamental for my motivation to create for the youngest audience is the perception of the child as equal to an adult, worthy of encountering arts in early years.…I believe that performances for the youngest audience should propose a valuable experience for both child and adult. They should resist the instrumentalisation imposed by traditional ideas of the educational role of theatre for children, decline theatrical conventions, oculocentrism and patriarchal dominance, and deny the concept of ultimate knowledge of the right way of experiencing the world.