Dalija Acin Thelander – Forza Forza!

A dance experience for little explorers and their adults – filled with movement, play and unexpected encounters. Forza Forza! by choreographer Dalija Acin Thelander is an immersive dance experience for both children and their adults.

Together you step into a playful world where peculiar forces set everything and everyone – bodies, things and creatures – in motion. Here unexpected encounters arise, playful alliances and new ways of discovering each other through dance and imagination.

The performance is designed as a Relaxed Performance and welcomes children with different needs and ways of experiencing the world. The audience can come and go as needed and experience the work at their own pace.

Forza Forza exists in two age-adapted versions: 2-4 years in the morning at 10.00-12.00 & 5-7 years in the afternoon at 13.00-15.00.

Performance length: 120 minutes. Acclaimed choreographer Dalija Acin Thelander has for many years worked on creating performances specially adapted for children with various forms of functional variations.

Forza Forza! is no exception. The performance is based on her research work in the project Towards Sensuous Ecologies, supported by the Swedish Research Council (2022-2024), where she has worked on developing methods for how performing arts experiences for children can be made inclusive for all.

Dansens Hus has previously presented two of Dalija Acin Thelander's works: dAzzleMAZE (2022) and Fields of Tender (2024 and 2025). Among Dalija's other works are "Hjärtat inuti" (2022), "Sixth day of the moon" (2019), "The Garden of Spirited Minds" (2018), "Myriader av världar" (2017) and "Sensescapes" (2015).