People Dancing

The freedom that dancing can offer

Date posted: 27 November 2019

Dr. Sara Houston has led prize winning research, speaks internationally on the subject and has just published a book, 'Dancing with Parkinson's' where she illustrates the freedom that dancing can offer to people.

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Celebrating World Parkinson’s Day in the North East 

Date posted: 12 October 2023

Dancer Eve Walker reflects upon her placement with the Live Well & Dance with Parkinson's performance group and how it solidified her work priorities and showed her the real power dance can hold and the impact it can have on individuals’ lives.

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Dance with Parkinson’s roundtable discussion

Date posted: 27 July 2020

This 90-minute roundtable discussion is co-curated and facilitated by Cheryl McChesney and co-curated and chaired by Kiki Gale. The conversation with artists, producers and dancers brings together a range of perspectives on dance with people with lived experience of Parkinson's during lockdown.  

To accompany this recording there are also some additional signposts to films and resources that you may find useful.

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Dance, Parkinson’s, Communities and Connections

Yaël Owen, Head of Health & Wellbeing at People Dancing reflects on a spring of travelling, continuing to learn more about the ways community dance artists from Wales approach dancing with Parkinson’s.

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Vallum Hadriani

Date posted: 27 September 2022

In the early Spring of 2022, Northeast based company Pelican Theatre, commissioned by Live Well & Dance with Parkinson’s Northeast steering group to created a piece for the Hadrian’s Wall 1900 Festival. Here we find out more from some of the participants...

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Pepperland and beyond

Date posted: 01 May 2019

Dance artist and writer Kate Swindlehurst reflects upon her experience of the opening night of Mark Morris Dance Group’s UK Pepperland tour and the next day Dance for people living with Parkinson's - Looking ahead: a one-day interactive symposium at Sadler’s Wells, London in March 2019.

Read Kate's blog here

Tango in lockdown: The tango effect 

Date posted: March - July 2020

The Tango Effect: Parkinson’s and the Healing Power of Dance explores the remarkable impact of Argentine tango on the experience of living with Parkinson’s. The book was published during the COVID-19 pandemic, shortly after the country went into lockdown. Here, we are pleased to share recordings with you that were made by the author, Kate Swindlehurst.

Listen to the recordings here

Strength and fragility

Date posted: 27 September 2022

Pelican Theatre's Pagan Hunt & Ellie Trow reflect on their experience of working with the Live Well & Dance with Parkinson’s Performance Collective and the co-creation of their work ‘Vallum Hadrani’ performed at The Sill, Northumberland for the Hadrian’s Wall 1900 Festival.

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