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Case studies

We've collected here a number of case studies and project reports about different aspects of dance, health and wellbeing, and the impacts of this work on the people that take part. It is an opportunity to see how others have dealt with practical details such as getting funding, structuring projects and formulating evaluation strategies, as well as using projects to widen their audiences and develop themselves.

One Step Forward
Posted: Fri 9 Dec 2011
During the spring and summer of 2010, Mean Feet Dance piloted their One Step Forward project offering creative dance tasters and short courses to mental health service users in Somerset. Here Viv Gordon, Artistic Director, Mean Feet Dance talks about the project, what she found out and some of the amazing people she met along the way Read more...
 Adult performance group
Diabetes UK embraces dance
Posted: Fri 9 Dec 2011
Andy James, Fundraising and Communications Director at Diabetes UK outlines how the national charity sees participation in dance as a route to help prevent and educate about diabetes Read more...
 Dundee Super Roadshow 2010, featuring Scottish Dance Theatre. Photo: © Diabetes UK
Making it happen
Posted: Tue 22 Nov 2011
Three practitioners, Joanne Duff, Anna Gillespie and Amanda Fogg, in the field of dance and Parkinson's disease describe their work and link us into the developing network Read more...
 Image: Joanne Duff with dancer from the Kentish Town Musical Moving Dance Group. Photo: Sheryl Tait.
Researching dance for Parkinson's
Posted: Tue 22 Nov 2011
Danielle Jones and Dr Sara Houston describe the groundbreaking research into the benefits of dance for people with Parkinson's disease Read more...
 Image: Dance for Parkinson's participants with Jennie Harrington, English National Ballet artist. Ph
Our dancing days are (not) done... (excerpt)
Posted: Tue 22 Nov 2011
Rachel Rogers, Project Development Manager, Merseyside Dance Initiative, reports on their health and wellbeing work with older people from the Caribbean community in Liverpool Read more...
 Image: MDIs Hector Peterson Project. Photo: Maxine Brown
"We are all dancers": dance and Parkinson's Disease
Posted: Mon 22 Aug 2011
Dorset based Dance Practitioner Amanda Fogg describes her recent visit to New York to observe the Mark Morris Dance Group's work with the Brooklyn Parkinson Group Read more...
We're still dancing
Posted: Mon 22 Aug 2011
Daphne Cushnie, independent dance artist based in Cumbria, shows the difference dance makes to the lives of people with Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease Read more...
Dance and obesity: a big issue
Posted: Mon 22 Aug 2011
Jan Burkhardt describes Dance Action Zone Leeds' activity programme to combat obesity in young people and the importance of community development in their work Read more...
Going by way of the body in Dementia care...
Posted: Mon 15 Aug 2011
Dr Richard Coaten talks about the contribution of dance to the wellbeing of sufferers of dementia Read more...
 Image: Richard Coaten. Photo: Sharon Marsden
Strictly Bed...vroom
Posted: Mon 1 Jun 2009
Carolyn Naish, Director of Lauderdale House, and Manuela Beste, Head of Evelina Hospital School, on a recent dance programme developed with young participants Read more...
 Image: Protein Dance at the Evelina Children's Hospital, London, Photographer: Roswitha Chesher
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