Baby Space is a multi-sensory installation designed for babies 12 months and under. It is where contemporary dance, music and visual art meld together to form an immersive encounter with the arts.

 

Babies will be encouraged to interact with the dancers and explore the installation in their own unique ways even after the performance is over.

 

Baby Space is created as an enjoyable and safe environment which offers to infants and adults an extraordinary experience. The installation space is made of a white, soft and resilient material that is pleasant and smooth to the touch and it's visually isolated from its surrounding.

 

All the elements are carefully brought together to introduce the setting for exceptional artistic and social experience – stimulating the perception of the youngest ones, encouraging interaction, sparking their curiosity and triggering exploration.

Baby Space is conceived as an installation – accessible for visitors for several hours a day and as a dance performance inside the installation – scheduled at the certain hours.

 

 

 

Dalija Acin Thelander is an award-winning choreographer, theatre maker and cultural worker based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work aspires to contribute to the notion of choreography as an expanded practice and focuses on the sensuous interrelationship of body, mind, and environment. She is involved in the research and creation of contemporary dance for babies and children and lectures on the importance of these early encounters with art.

 

She is the initiator and coordinator of the Generator, a collaborative platform that develops dance theatre for children in the Balkan region. She is also the co-founder and coordinator of Station Service for Contemporary Dance Belgrade and co-founder and co-curator of Kondenz, a festival for performing arts, in Belgrade, Serbia. She is also the co-founder of Nomad Dance Academy for which she initiates, curates and produces numerous programmes and productions.