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Live Well & Dance with Parkinson's

About our programme

Live Well & Dance with Parkinson's will make a positive impact on the lives of people living with Parkinson's and of those of their families, loved ones and carers through dance activity, cultural experiences, and community connection. The programme will enrich lives through creative dance experiences, offer greater connectivity with community & peers and aim to embed legacy and sustainability through our networks and partnerships.

At its heart, Live Well & Dance with Parkinson’s aims to create access to new opportunities for dance and creativity in partnership with people living with Parkinson’s. Across 6 locations in England (Birmingham & West Midlands, Bristol, Carlisle/North Cumbria, Leicester/Shire, Manchester/Greater Manchester, the Northeast), dance and cultural activity will be planned and delivered locally through area steering groups. These groups will establish greater connectivity between people across community & peers, organisations, cultural venues, and dance artists to create legacy and sustainability.

Whilst activity will respond to need on a local level the programme will also have a national and international impact across partnership development and programmes of workforce development through artist training, networking and research.

Throughout the programme we will consistently share approaches for increasing access to activity and networks in the wider context of ‘Living Well’ through dance.

Yaël Owen-MckennaProgramme Director for Live Well & Dance with Parkinson’s

yael.owen-mckenna@communitydance.org.uk

Weekly online class for people living with Parkinson's

10 April 2024 - 22 May 2024 
Location: Zoom, online
Timings: Wednesday mornings 10.30am - 11.30am
Dates: 10, 17, 24 April and 1, 8, 15, 22 May
Classes cost £35 for the block of seven

These supportive, warm & welcoming sessions offer a place to meet others and engage in a fulfilling creative activity.

Live Well and Dance with Parkinson's online classes are led by Midlands based dance artist, performer, choreographer and musician Kath Kimber-McTiffen.

These 'at home' online dance sessions can be taken seated throughout or seated and standing.

We will begin each session by exploring breath and gentle stretching to find length and space in the body then move into sequences to support coordination, balance and flow.

As we get to know each other over the weeks, we will explore story, imagination, our surroundings and our lives to build creative landscapes from which new dances will emerge.

Through dance, music, creativity and socialisation classes can support physical awareness and build confidence for everyday living.

Book for the classes here

   
 

About Kath Kimber-McTiffen

Kath is a Midlands based dance artist, performer, choreographer and musician, with a portfolio career spanning 25 years working with all ages and abilities across the community and in schools, as well as touring nationally. Currently Director of Sonrisa Arts CIC, which has a focus on producing cross arts professional performances for young children and older adults, co-created with and for the community.

Kath has a specialism in creating dance with and for early years and families using a child-led approach. She also sings, plays flute and co-songwrites with latin jazz band, Sonrisa.

Kath was formally co-founder and co-director of touring company, Wriggle Dance Theatre. In January, she was chosen as one of the 12 international dance artists to be a part of the Little Big Dance Artists Lab at South East Dance, where she undertook a period of research into developing her practice in creating participatory performance work for early years

 
Photo credits: Top: People Dancing Summer Intensive. Photo: Rachel Cherry. Bottom: Kath Kimber-McTiffen.