Next gathering
Working on the FRONTLINE - Dance and creativity in hospital and clinical settings
Wednesday 08 July, 12.30-2pm
Zoom, Online with FRONTLINEdance
Rachel Lines, Artistic Director/CEO of FRONTLINEdance will share the company’s dance and creative practice in hospitals and clinical settings. Rachel will talk about how working in the context of health is a driving force for the company, how personal experiences shape and develop the work, and how the company has extended patients’ creative experience into the community.
Rachael will share a personal reflection of this work, through her own experiences, patient responses and film, and will also talk about how work is funded, how partnerships were pursued, and how FRONTLINEdance have developed them.
Open to People Dancing Members and Free Subscribers who are working with dance in community, health, education or social contexts. Please note, this event will be recorded.
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Rachael Lines
Rachael is the Artistic Director of FRONTLINEdance, a UK based company working mainly in the Stoke-on-Trent, in which she co-founded in 2001 with Michael King.
Rachael’s work in hospital and clinical settings started twenty-six year ago facilitating dance and movement for a wide-range of people of all ages; children to elderly people, with a range of health needs and conditions including acute stroke, mental health, cancer, renal, neurology, palliative care and brain injury.
Driven by lived experience she created a new performance strand for the company working in hospitals, and 2016 co-created ‘Happenchance’ with six collaborating artists, hospital patients, staff, and visitors of her local acute hospital. The development of this work means the company is resident at UHNM hospital’s, Royal Stoke and County Hospital Stafford, whilst also in residence at Haywood Community Hospitals brain injury ward.
Alongside this FRONTLINEdance continues work in community settings, where their long-established Moving Together programme, work with people experiencing long and chronic health conditions such as for example, MS, Parkinson’s, Stroke, Cancer, and other neurological conditions. A recent partnership with Rosetta Life will facilitate the creation of a new community performance group for those with acquired brain injury.
Images credit: Natalie Willat.