Dancing My Mind 2
November 20–21, Stockholm, Sweden
This is for booking participation for only one day, the 20th november.
Early Bird Discount!
If you book before September 1, you only pay 800 SEK.
After September 1, the price is 1,000 SEK.
In collaboration between Karolinska Institutet, The Swedish school of Sport and Health science and Balettakademien, Stockholm, we bring together inspiring lectures, interactive workshops, and expert panels to explore how dance can support brain health, learning, well-being, creativity, and human connection.
Whether you are a dancer, educator, researcher, artist, therapist, or health professional, this is a unique opportunity to connect, learn, and move together with leading researchers and dance professionals from around the world.
20th november
Venue: Karolinska institutet, Sune Bergström Aula
10.00- 10.15 Conference opening; representatives from KI, BA, GIH
10.15 - 11.00 Emily Cross, dancing brain and thinking bodies
Emily is a cognitive neuroscientist and dancer based at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, where she leads the Professorship for Social Brain Sciences. Using interactive learning tasks, brain scanning, dance, acrobatics and robots, she explores how experience shapes how we perceive and interact with others and is particularly interested in the social influences that shape human—robot interaction and the relationship between AI, artworks and artists. Emily received undergraduate and graduate degrees in the USA and New Zealand, completed postdoctoral training in the UK and Germany, and has held previous faculty positions in the Netherlands, Wales, Scotland and Australia. Her work has been funded by a number of national and international organisations, including the European Commission, Australian Research Council, National Institutes of Health, Ministry of Defence, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Leverhulme Trust, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Fulbright Commission.
11.00 - 11.45 short break, students from BA dancing at the Bergström aula.
11.45 - 12.30 David Leventhal, Dance for PD®: How the synergy of art, science, and community promote well-being
David Leventhal is Program Director and a Founding Teacher of Dance for PD®, the internationally recognized program of the Mark Morris Dance Group that invites people living with Parkinson’s in 31 countries to experience the physical, emotional, and social benefits of dance, music, creativity, and community. A pioneer in the arts and health field, he has dedicated his career to improving the lives of people living with neurodegenerative conditions through dance. A Bessie Award-winning former dancer with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Leventhal brings a performing artist’s understanding of movement, expression, and embodied learning to his work. He has contributed to peer-reviewed studies on Dance for PD and written about the intersection of dance, Parkinson’s, and well-being for publications including Renée Fleming’s Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness. He also designed and teaches a course in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Leventhal is a frequent speaker at medical, academic, cultural, and neuroarts convenings. His honors include the IADMS Pioneer Dance Educator Award and a World Parkinson Congress Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Parkinson’s Community.
Find your own Lunch at Urban Deli, Forskaren
Venue: The Cell
13.30 - 14.15 Lecture by Gunnar Bjursell, Art and Health
Gunnar Bjursell is a Professor Emeritus, and his research has focused on the importance of genetics in public health, cancer and arteriosclerosis. While at Gothebergs University, Gunnar coordinated and lead the Culture and Health initiative. During the last fifteen years has been actively involved in the further development of the research field culture, the brain, and health. Since 2021 he has been Director for the Centre for Culture, Cognition and Health at Karolinska Institutet.
14.15 - 14.30 short break
14.30 - 15.15 Åsa N.Åström and performace by Dance for Parkinsons Balettakademien
Åsa N. Åström is a former dancer with an extensive career within contemporary dance in Sweden, France and Germany.
Åsa have been choreographing and producing dance performances since 2000, often in the field of community dance and with collaborations with different kind of artists.
After four years as a dance coach working with elderly at an elderly facility, Åsa started Dance for Parkinson in Stockholm and founded the Swedish network of Dance for Parkinson. She is now head of Dance for Health at Balettakademien in Stockholm. Åsa is currently involved in a number of projects in the field of health and dance, which is breaking new grounds in the healthcare world as in the dance world.
Dance for Parkinson in Stockholm has been creating performances for many years and have been showing dance in different environments like museums, art exhibitions, flashmob, congresses. Between 2019 and 2026 she served as a committee member for the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.
15.15 - 15.45 Swedish fika break
15.45 - 16.30 Panel discussion; Per Svenningson, David L, Emily Cross, Sanna Nordin Bates
17.00 showing of the museum and a drink at The Cell
Organized by
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
The Swedish school of Sport and Health science (GIH)
Balettakademien Stockholm (BA), Sweden
Venue
Friday:
Karolinska Institutet Sweden -at Sunde Bergström conference, Solnavägen 30
The Cell, Tekniska museet -at Forskaren, Hagaplan 4
Saturday:
Balettakademien Stockholm -at Birger Jarlsgatan 70
On Sunday the 22 nov there will be a special day only for teachers in Dance for Parkinsons with David Leventhal.
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