This online event brings together experts working across dance, health and community settings, to discuss the variety of ways that dance improves individual and collective wellbeing.
Co-hosted by Move Dance Feel (UK) and Ausdance QLD (AUS), it is a curated programme of presentations that aim to generate rigorous conversations about dance and health influenced by global perspectives.
Using dance to improve health, enhance wellbeing, reinforce a sense of identity and strengthen communities is not a new phenomenon. In this event speakers will share examples of pioneering dance and health programmes in both the UK and Australia.
The event will also focus on the benefits of dance in cancer care, and how it can help participants to manage the wide ranging physical, mental and social health challenges associated with cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Importantly, the event will allow time for questions and input from attendees, and highlight the strength of interdisciplinary collaboration between the dance and the health sectors.
About the artist
Move Dance Feel is an award winning company dedicated to promoting the health benefits of dance for women living with and beyond cancer, including those caring for someone with cancer or bereaved by cancer. Established in 2016, their mission is to make community dance a mainstream activity offered in cancer care services worldwide.
The company works in partnership with leading cancer support centres across the UK, providing evidence based dance sessions and courses (in person and online). They also offer professional development opportunities in order to share their dance methodology, and designed the UK’s first Dance in Cancer Care interdisciplinary training programme, bringing together those working in both the dance and the health sectors.