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Dance for Health: the impact of creative dance sessions on older people in an acute hospital setting, Hilary Bungay

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Dance for Health: the impact of creative dance sessions on older people in an acute hospital setting, Hilary Bungay

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Background: This service evaluation examined the impact of Dance for Health, a programme of weekly group dance sessions for older patients, which took place on wards in an acute hospital setting.

Published in: Arts & Health

An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice

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Read how CUH Arts are celebrating 10 years of their Dance for Health programme.

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CUH Arts are delighted to celebrate 10 years of wonderful Dance for Health programme. We have developed a number of special projects and commissions across this special anniversary year - read about them below.

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CUH Arts are delighted to celebrate 10 years of wonderful Dance for Health programme. We have developed a number of special projects and commissions across this special anniversary year.

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In Autumn 2018, musicians from the Academy of Ancient Music spent a month in residence with Dance for Health - CUH's flagship movement & music project, led by dance artist Filipa Pereira-Stubbs. This beautiful film, produced by Toby Peters, shares moments along the way.

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Luminelle: Dancing for Parkinsons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

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Luminelle: Dancing for Parkinsons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

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Luminelle, Dancing with Parkinson's at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

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Luminelle Evaluation Report: Undercurrent - exploring co-creation on a stroke ward 

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Luminelle Evaluation Report: Undercurrent - exploring co-creation on a stroke ward 

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Moving With Pain: What Principles From Somatic Practices Can Offer to People Living With Chronic Pain

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Moving With Pain: What Principles From Somatic Practices Can Offer to People Living With Chronic Pain

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Frontiers | Moving With Pain: What Principles From Somatic Practices Can Offer to People Living With Chronic Pain

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This article brings together research from the fields of chronic pain management and somatic practices to develop a novel framework of principles to support…

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Dance for Health: Culture Health and Wellbeing Blog

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Dance for Health: Culture Health and Wellbeing Blog

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Written by CUH Arts

Dance for Health is one of the UK's longest running dance programmes in acute hospital settings. Established in 2014 and led by dance artist Filipa Pereira-Stubbs, 'Dance for Health' is a collaborative participatory programme for inpatients on the wards at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH). Its aim is to bring staff, patients and visitors together in dance; to promote wellbeing, aid physical and mental recovery, and encourage increased social interaction.

'Space and time is made to engage with and listen to patients in a non-clinical, creative way. Although not therapy, the sessions are often of therapeutic value, and give patients positive and meaningful experiences whilst in hospital.' Filipa Pereira Stubbs

Over the last decade, the programme has become an important part of the culture of care at CUH. It is embedded into ward culture and integrated into hospital life. The space it occupies in the day-to-day life of a busy teaching hospital has solidified its position as a leader in the field of hospital-based participatory dance.

'I found it exhilarating and friendly. Very welcoming, supportive... and there was empathy for wherever we were with our bodies.' - Patient Testimony

CUH Arts have developed a number of special commissions and projects to share, disseminate and celebrate the impact and learning from this programme in it's 10th anniversary year.
Dance for Health Webinar Series - September 2024
CUH Arts are hosting four webinars across September exploring dance in acute hospital settings. With contributions from dance practitioners, clinical staff, researchers, and those commissioning dance activity in hospitals, these webinars will provide a space to share practice, network, and create a national conversation about the impact dance has had in acute hospital settings. You can find out more and book a place here.
Conversations in Movement: 10 Years of Dance for Health Exhibition
This exhibition spotlights the beautiful moments made in the often-quiet work that takes place during 'Dance for Health' sessions. To capture and support the visualisation of the programme, visual artist Lena Yokoyama was in residence at the hospital. Spending time on multiple wards with Filipa, clinical staff, patients and their families, Lena has created drawings and live sketches of workshops, dance duets, conversations, sing-alongs and one-to-ones. You can read more about the exhibition here.

You can find out more about CUH Arts wider programme here.

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CUH Arts Celebrates 10 years of their Dance for Health programme, delivered at Addenbrooke's Hospital

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'Space and time is made to engage with and listen to patients in a non-clinical, creative way. Although not therapy, the sessions are often of therapeutic value, and give patients positive and meaningful experiences whilst in hospital.' Filipa Pereira Stubbs

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Can improvised somatic dance reduce acute pain for young people in hospital?

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Can improvised somatic dance reduce acute pain for young people in hospital?

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Can improvised somatic dance reduce acute pain for young people in hospital?

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Can improvised somatic dance reduce acute pain for young people in hospital?

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Towards a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare: A case for dance improvisation in clinical and care settings. Lisa Dowler 

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Towards a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare: A case for dance improvisation in clinical and care settings. Lisa Dowler 

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Towards a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare

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In 2007, the World Health Organisation (WHO) called for a more holistic, person-centred approach to healthcare in response to inherent limitations with the dominant biomedical approach (David et al 2007). This research portfolio is part of the broader Arts and Health (AaH) movement which is integral to the shift to a more holistic/patient-centred approach. However, to date, participatory arts for health programmes only reach a minority of hospital patients and are not centrally funded by the NHS or part of standard healthcare provision.

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Summary: Rachael Lines, FRONTLINEdance, co-created and engaged with staff, patients, visitors at Royal Stoke, County Hospital Stafford, and Queens Hospital, Burton. Together we created 'Forget Me Knot' - A contemporary dance and music performance and participatory work. Greg Hall created a beautiful song with patients and visitors which he sang and played live whilst dancers Clare Reynolds and Mary Prestige danced, with Rachael and the staff dancing and interacting with patients. A second dance was created whilst Greg played his Cello - a composition made specifically for this work. This included dancing with the patients. The work took us onto wards with multiple bays, side rooms, lounge areas and extended into a community hospital tour. The work was really well received and supported by hospital staff. More info: rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk | @frontlinedance1

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Happenchance - a performance work for the whole hospital

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Happenchance - a performance work for the whole hospital

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FRONTLINEdance's first hospital project was led by Rachael Lines and co-created with staff, patients and visitors, at Royal Stoke Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, one composer / musician, four dancers, and a story teller. It was commissioned by Appetite and UHNM Charity. The performers toured the hospital including the Renal Unit, Children's Area, foyer and outside gardens in 2014. This film version has BSL interpretation. Filmed by Junction 15. The work then toured 2 years later to 10 hospital. We had different works for different departments and areas of the hospital including: outside including quiet garden areas, foyers, renal units, outpatients waiting rooms, hospital foyers, children's wards, chemotherapy wards, stroke wards, transport / leaving hospital bays. More Information: rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk | @frontlinedance1

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Happenchance - a FRONTLINEdance Hospital Project with BSL interpretation

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UNDERCURRENT: Ward Based work, Luminelle 

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UNDERCURRENT: Ward Based work, Luminelle 

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Luminelle: Rehabilitation project for people with Parkinson's

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Luminelle: Rehabilitation project for people with Parkinson's

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Check out this design designed by Jasmine Hall.

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Zest Active Arts: To keep everyone moving whatever their age.

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Zest Active Arts: To keep everyone moving whatever their age.

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Useful Tool for Evaluating Practice: Creative Health Quality Framework

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Useful Tool for Evaluating Practice: Creative Health Quality Framework

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The Creative Health Quality Framework is a ground-breaking tool that clearly articulates what “good” looks like for creative and cultural initiatives that aim to support people’s health and wellbeing. The Creative Health Quality Framework consists of a set of downloadable PDF resources based around…

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Watch a short film about Rosetta Life's current programme for the Wellcome Trust funded research programme Stroke & Brain Odysseys.

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The Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network

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The Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network

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Professional Measurement and Evaluation of the impact of Rosetta Life projects on participants is central to our approach.  Funders want to know what their grants have achieved. Future funders want reassurance that a Roseta Life commission is risk free and will bring great benefits to those taking part.

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SHAPER - Scaling-up Health Arts Programmes: Implementation and Effectiveness Research

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SHAPER - Scaling-up Health Arts Programmes: Implementation and Effectiveness Research

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Let Silence Speak

Watch a short video about Rosetta Life's role in the SHAPER Conference in May 2023.

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Watch a film of Rosetta Life's most recent performance project: 'Butterfly Time'.

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A Rosetta Life film about memory by people living with the impact of brain injury.

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A short film about memory by people living with the impact of brain injury. Video and other imagery bybthose taking part.

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Recovering Hope: Brain Odysseys Handbook

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Recovering Hope: Brain Odysseys Handbook

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Learn about Rosetta Life's current programme Stroke & Brain Odysseys. Recovering Hope shares the findings from a decade of working with stroke communities and offers a model of how to set up similar programmes in other localities.

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Brain Odysseys Handbook - Brain Odysseys

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Recovering Hope shares the findings from a decade of working with stroke communities and offers a model of how to set up similar programmes in other localities

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This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s disease. Sara Houston argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs and challenges of people living with Parkinson’s who have chosen to dance.

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This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson's disease. Linking aesthetic values to wellbeing, Sara Houston articulates the importance of the dancing experience for those with Parkinson's, and argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs and challenges of people living with Parkinson's who have chosen to dance.

Presenting personal narratives from a study that investigates the experience of people with Parkinson's who dance, intertwined with the social and political contexts in which the dancers live, this volume examines the personal and systemic issues as well as the attitudes and identities that shape people's relationship to dance. Taking this new primary research as a starting point, Dancing with Parkinson's builds an argument for how dance becomes a way of helping people live well with Parkinson's.

Sara Houston is a principal lecturer in the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton in London. Her interest is in community dance, particularly with those marginalised in society. Her Parkinson's research won her a BUPA Foundation Prize in 2011.
Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Positioning dance with Parkinson's
Chapter 1: Parkinson's pathology in a social context

Chapter 2: The phenomenon of dance for Parkinson's

Chapter 3: What's so special about dancing?
Part 2: The value of dancing with Parkinson's
Chapter 4: Living well with Parkinson's

Chapter 5: Exploring beauty

Chapter 6: Interpreting grace

Chapter 7: Finding freedom

Chapter 8: Understanding agency
Epilogue: A beginning Bibliography
'In this book, Sara Houston explores the value and experience of dance for people living with Parkinson's. However, Dancing with Parkinson's is as much about identity and belonging, and the book's strength is the humanizing, person-centred focus that Houston adopts. The reader is left with no doubt that an individual's meaning and worth can be transformed through a certain kind of dance participation. [...] Dancing with Parkinson's is an important contribution to the field of arts and health, and to Parkinson's research more broadly, and the book is well suited to a wide audience: the dance community, the arts and health field, those touched by the neurodegenerative condition, and anyone looking to become more informed about what it means to live well with the condition.'
Rebecca Stancliffe, Journal of Applied Arts & Health

'Sara Houston's Dancing with Parkinson's is an important and timely contribution to the rapidly evolving field of Dance for Health. [...] Within the work, Houston aligns dance for Parkinson's with community dance through, notably, the shared value of inclusivity. Acknowledging and highlighting the contribution of the latter tradition gives a necessary context for understanding the former practice. Dancing with Parkinson's is a work of dance scholarship but reflects the multifaceted and often interdisciplinary nature of the discipline through drawing on cultural studies, philosophy, and sociology, to illuminate the narrative and value of a 'young practice' worthy of in-depth exploration.'
Bethany Whiteside, Dance Research

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Dancing with Parkinson's; This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson's disease. Sara Houston argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs and challenges of people living with Parkinson's who have chosen to dance.

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What is this pill called dance? Teaching Resource, Filipa Pereira-Stubbs

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What is this pill called dance? Teaching Resource, Filipa Pereira-Stubbs

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ELaTIon-Enhancing Lives Through Improvisation - 

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The ELaTIon performance series was part of a two-year project at Alder Children’s Hospital in Liverpool throughout 2018-19. The biannual performances toured the oncology, neuromedical, neurosurgical, cardiac, renal dialysis and mixed surgical units offering improvised, bespoke performances for children unable to leave their beds, as well as performances for groups in play spaces and corridors. Pop-up performances were also created in hospital public spaces for patients, their families and hospital staff to enjoy.