Price
Free
Location
DansiT / Svartlamon
Duration
2 hours

The workshop is free, but requires registration in advance to asgerdur@dansit.no

Accessibility information:
Duration: 120 min (including breaks)
English language
Audio description of video materials in English
Step-free access space with accessible toilet
Alternative seating (bean bags, sofas)

For accessibility information please contact producer and access coordinator Betty:
betty@dansit.no or by phone at +47 924 35 225.

Thursday 23. April 2026 - kl.10:00 Registration

This dramaturgical seminar will explore how accessibility tools can serve as artistic methods, focusing on Saša Asentić’s approach to the “aesthetics of access”. Participants will learn from Asentić’s collaborative, disability-led work, which understands accessibility as a foundational material condition shaping a work´s aesthetics. This approach incorporates accessibility and disability into the core of artistic creation, redefining time, form, and structure of artistic work, as well as transforming sociability and communication in public through performance. In doing so, it challenges traditional dramaturgy and invites us to envision practices free from ableist norms that often exclude disability from performing arts.

Asentić will present video, audio, photo, and written materials from his practice to provoke questions such as: how does visual accessibility both expand choreography and translate it into other media? What is the dramaturgical impact of vocal language translation and Crip time on dance? How do the poetics of sign language interpretation and performance function in dance? And what effects do captions have on narrative and dance expression?

This workshop is part of Multiplié Dance Festival 2026

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.