Dancing Wellness
The Role Of Dance
In Lifelong Healthy living
The Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation aims to provide a united and inclusive ‘voice’ for individual teaching artists, researchers and companies developing ground-breaking work with dance & creative wellness.
The Foundation brings together some of the most outstanding dance and health programmes across Europe and beyond to consolidate the sector, promoting the dissemination of new findings and acting as a multiplier for the sharing of approaches and methodologies through a framework of open dialogue.
The Dance & Creative Wellbeing Foundation acts as an advocate, facilitating the effective partnership of the health, wellness and dance sectors, identifying new projects and potential partnerships to serve the needs of local government, European health strategy and the health and wellness sectors in the commitment to further public health and quality of life.
LONDON
Friday 2 December & Saturday 3 December 2016
“Take off your specialist hat and put on your dancing shoes”.
Friday 2 December
Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN
Saturday 3 December
Rambert, 99 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PP
Key Information:
Tickets:
£55* for Independent Dance Artist / Teacher
£80* for Delegates from Organisations / Companies / Institutions
*Ticket price includes lunch on Fri 2 December
Open Call
Come along and discover different perspectives on dance for creative wellness from the UK and across Europe – inspiration for dancers, teachers as well as therapists, practitioners, carers, health care providers and those interested in integrating dance and creativity in wellbeing and preventative health practice. Presented by the European Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation hosted by Sadler’s Wells and Rambert. Tickets are now on sale and available from £ 55. Book Tickets.
“Coming together to dance is a joyful and shared experience that has physiological and psychological benefits for lifelong wellness.
Let’s celebrate the significant contribution of dance as a holistic and person centered approach to preventative health at Dancing Wellness.”
Tamara Rojo,
Artistic Director & Lead Principal,
English National Ballet
If ‘Sitting is the new smoking’ and our sedentary lifestyle has exploded into an insidious epidemic, diminishing brain-body reflexes, disturbing circadian rhythms and provoking all manner of imbalances and dis-ease in the subtle, interconnected systems and rhythms of the organism – then dance has a significant role to play as an inclusive, social activity that impacts health on a global level: on a physical, mental and emotional level, engaging individuals of all ages in life-giving activity, improving general levels of health, immune function, brain health, confidence and social integration.
‘Dance has a direct and unifying impact on the intricate inner choreography, the dynamic balance that is our health’
Clare Guss-West,
Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation
Experience ‘Dancing Wellness’ from Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Monaco, Serbia, Switzerland with practitioners from companies such as Ballet Preljocaj (FR), Ich bin Ok (AU), ERGstatus Dance Theatre (SB) and Monica Gillette (DE) who join Foundation directors Clare Guss-West (CH) & Andrew Peter Greenwood (NL). UK ‘Dancing Wellness’ is explored through presentations and workshops from English National Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, Rambert, Aleka Loutsis, Filipa Pereira-Stubs, Darcey Bussell’s DDMIX, with contributions from ‘Dance for PD’® Mark Morris Dance Company,
One Dance UK, Trinity Laban and many others. Full list of presenters available on the registration page.
David Leventhal,
Program Director,
Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dance for PD® program,
Brooklyn, NY (USA)
This transdisciplinary convening provides an invaluable opportunity to celebrate, investigate and advocate for the transformative power of dance as a global activity that fosters health, creativity and wellness. I know the ripples of what gets shared and expressed will reach far and wide.
TIMETABLE
subject to change
FRIDAY 2nd DECEMBER
Sadler’s Wells,
Rosebery Avenue,
London,
EC1R 4TN
09.30
REGISTRATION
10.00 – 11.00
Mark Baldwin
Artistic Director Rambert
panel discussion “Why wellness?”
David Leventhal (USA)
Mark Morris Dance Company
Film “Capturing Grace”
allaround projection
11.15 – 12.15
Andrew Greenwood (NL)
workshop
theme: The Moving world
live electronic set
Medicine Man (SRB)
Aleka Loutsis, MA (UK)
workshop
theme: Body Language, Movement & Trauma
12.30 – 01.30
Roundtables
Edith Wolf Perez (AU)
TBC
Tamara McCloud (UK)
Art as community wellness
Eirinn Sanchez (UK)
TBC
Pauline Hasse (NO)
Multidisciplinary cooperation in care settings
Jennifer Curry DCD (UK)
Dancer’s career transition into creative wellness
Nicholas Kahn (MO)
TBC
Sara Houston (UK)
Research findings in dance practice
1.45 – 2.45
Sadler’s Wells & Company of Elder’s (UK)
workshop
Boris Caksiran (SRB)
workshop
02.15 – 02.45
Tomorro Kokoma – One Dance UK
dance in lifelong healthy living presentation / sharing
2.45 – 3.15
BREAK
03.15 – 04.15
English National Ballet (UK)
theme: Akram Khan’s Giselle
Daniele Teale
workshop
03.15 – 03.45
Boris Caksiran (SRB)
presentation / sharing
Louisa Potts – Trinity Laban (UK)
Dancing Ahead: Creativity, Empowerment and Resilience
presentation /sharing
03.45 – 04.15
Clare Guss-West (CH) Andrew Greenwood (NL)
The Value of Virtual? Debate / sharing
04.30 – 05.30
Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation “happening”
Andrew Greenwood (NL), Clare Guss-West (CH), Eldridge Labinjo (NL), Jane Hackett (UK), Nicholas Kahn (MO), Pauline Hasse (NO), Edith Wolf Perez (AU)
TIMETABLE
subject to change
SATURDAY 3rd DECEMBER
Rambert,
99 Upper Ground,
London,
SE1 9PP
09.30
REGISTRATION
10.00 – 10.20
OPENING
Rambert Welcome & Local Context
Eldridge Labinjo (NL)
Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation
10.30-11.30
Clare Guss-West (CH)
theme: The power of the Imaginary
workshop
Monica Gillette (DE)
theme: Creativity & Parkinson’s
workshop
Hana & Attila Zanin
Cultural & Educational Association
‘Ich bin O.K.’(AU)
Eastern European Collaborations
presentation / sharing
11.00 – 11.30
Daniele Teale (UK)
Artistic integrity in dance and health based practice
presentation / sharing
11.45-12.45
Rambert (UK)
theme: Dance & Demetia
workshop
Hana & Attila Zanin ‘Ich bin O.K.’(AU)
theme: Dance & Down Syndrome towards inclusive practice
workshop
Filipa Pereira-Stubs (UK)
Films: dance in hospital & dance work and dementia
Monica Gillette (DE)
Creativity & Parkinsons’s presentation / sharing
12.15 – 12.45
Rambert, Chelsea & Westminster (UK)
Cooperation in Care Settings presentation / sharing
Royston Maldoom (DE)
the role of ART in community wellness
presentation / sharing
12.45 – 02.00
EAT & MEET
02.00 – 03.00
Ballet Preljocaj (FR)
Youri Aharon Van Den Bosch
theme: Somatopathy, Dance & Wellness”
workshop
Filipa Pereira-Stubs (UK)
theme: Dance, Mind, Brain and Body”
workshop
Dr Stephanie Frierabend (DE)
Darcey’s DDMIX presentation / sharing
Clare Guss-West (CH)
Andrew Greenwood (NL)
The Value of Virtual?
Debate / sharing
2.30 – 3.00
Eldridge Labinjo (NL)
Entrepreneurship and sustainability in creative wellness
presentation / sharing
3.15 – 04.00
CLOSING
Andrew Greenwood – Clare Guss-West – Monica Gillette – Eldridge Labinjo – Jane Hackett – Nicholas Kahn
04.00
MINGLING
