Fields of Tender

Fields of Tender is a dance performance which invites its audience to enjoy and explore imaginary world 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 the calm and intimate space for relaxation. The feeling of extravagance and allure interlaced with sensation of ethereal and sensual fosters the empowerment, togetherness and easefulness.

Dalija Acin Thelander comes back to the  elPetit Festival  with her last show, Fields of Tender, this performance provides various extents of experiences for all types of perceptions and it welcomes all kinds of behaviors. 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.

The performance has been created within her three-year academic research project Towards sensuous ecologies, Rethinking ableism in choreographic and movement practices, supported by the Swedish Research Council and in affiliation with Stockholm University of arts / Dance department.

• Coreography and general design: Dalija Acin Thelander
• In collaboration with and performed by: Noah Hellwig, Jimmie Larsson, Jilda Hallin
• Music: Thomas Jeker
• Digital animation and interactive technologies: Filip Mikic
• With the support of: Men? Spaustuv? / Arts Printing House (Vilnius, Lithuania), Kulturhuset Dieselverkstaden (Stockholm, Sweden), Muzeum Susch / Art Stations Foundation CH (Susch, Suïssa), laSala | elPetit (Sabadell, Catalunya)