Price
Free registration
Location
Digitalt
Duration
ca. 90 min

Accessibility and language

The sessions will be designed to ensure participation is comfortable, relevant, and meaningful for everyone, with particular consideration given to blind and partially sighted participants.

All written and spoken materials will be in English.

Tuesday 10. March 2026 - kl.13:00 Registration - closed

Over three digital sessions in spring 2026, DansiT, in collaboration with choreographer and researcher Saša Asentić, invites participants to a digital reading and listening circle exploring texts on visual accessibility, aesthetics of access, and equity in dance.

The sessions take place digitally on March 10th, March 24th and April 7th at 1:00 PM, and as a participant you attend all or at least 2 gatherings.

The sessions will focus on visual interpretation in dance, with particular attention to how audio description can be used as an artistic method in creating dance and choreography. Participants read or listen to selected texts in advance of each session, and together we will discuss the potentials of visual access in developing new artistic forms that make dance and choreography accessible to blind and partially sighted people.

We aim to bring together people with diverse skills and experiences in the field, including artists, audiences, access coordinators, producers, theorists, and others interested in accessibility and artistic practice. The sessions will be structured to ensure that participation is comfortable, relevant, and meaningful for all, with particular consideration for blind and partially sighted participants.

  • Texts are provided in screen-reader-friendly formats
  • Any presentations are shared in advance as PDF, audio files or internet links.
  • Visual elements will be described verbally during the session
  • The moderator will state who is speaking and provide clear facilitation
  • No important information will be given in visual form only
  • A technical test of the digital meeting is available for those who would like it

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.

For questions contact access coordinator Betty: betty@dansit.no / 92435225

About Saša Asentić

Saša Asentić is an internationally recognized choreographer, researcher and activist from former Yugoslavia. He works at the intersection of contemporary dance and disability arts. His artistic practice is based on the principle of solidarity, and resistance against cultural oppression and indoctrination. Asentić is a founder of Per.Art organization in Novi Sad (Serbia), which since 1999 gathers a group of disabled and nondisabled artists that challenge and counter ableism in dance and culture. He is a PhD candidate at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

These sessions with Asentić offer a unique opportunity to delve into relations between accessibility and artistic freedom and expression, and to explore how the interpretation of visual content through auditory, kinetic and haptic perception can be understood as a creative and artistic practice.