Dancing My Mind 2
November 20–21, Stockholm, Sweden
This is for booking participation for only one day, the 21th 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.
Venue: Balettakademien (BA)
Dance for Health, two aspects of Dance interventions.
9.30-11.00 Emily Jenkins workshop
Emily Jenkins is an established, international dance artist with an embedded social and wellbeing practice. She designs, implements and artistically leads life enhancing dance initiatives.
She has worked in dance for nearly two decades, and in that time has created and delivered countless opportunities for dance engagement with both cultural and health organisations. Her practice fosters unity and depth of connection, and is centred around release, reciprocity and joy.
In 2016 Emily founded Move Dance Feel, a company offering dance to women living with and beyond cancer. She is now spearheading an international #danceincancercare movement, creating a network of artists, researchers, healthcare professionals and students operating in this space.
She has a BA (Hons) degree in Performing Arts, Culture and Communication, and received a Keith Andrews prize for ‘excellence in Performing Arts’.
She is a Churchill Fellow, a OneDanceUK and National Lottery Art, Culture and Film award winner, and was selected by Positive News magazine as one of ‘10 ordinary people who made 2021 extraordinary’. She is a Churchill Fellow, a OneDanceUK and National Lottery Art, Culture and Film award winner, and was selected by Positive News magazine as one of ‘10 ordinary people who made 2021 extraordinary’. Between 2019 and 2026 she served as a committee member for the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.
11.00-11.30 coffee break
11.30 – 12.15 Anna Duberg, Emily Jenkins lecture about cancer and Dance/Yoga connected to research
Anna Duberg, Medical Doctor in Health Sciences, is the founder of Dance for Health (Dans för Hälsa) and is responsible for its method and courses.
Anna is an affiliated researcher at the Department of Health Sciences at Örebro University and works as a research supervisor at the University Healthcare Research Center, Region Örebro County. She is now combining research supervision with working on innovation issues within Region Örebro County, mainly through participation in the program management of Social Impact Lab, Örebro University Enterprise AB. She is also a project participant in the European project NEOLAiA within Task 5.5 “Living Lab Hub”.
12.15 – 13.15 Find your own lunch at BA
13.15 – 14.15 David Leventhal workshop
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.
14.15 - 15.00 Discussion groups led by Jan Åström
15.00 Swedish fika and good bye
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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