The best-laid plans
Issue: Spring 2010
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010
Free-lance arts consultant Jo Buffery shares her tips for dance projects in health settings read more
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Improvising on the ward
Issue: Winter 2010
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2010
Lisa Dowler of the Small Things Collective describes how deeply children in hospital show her the way read more
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Just what the doctor ordered?
Issue: Winter 2010
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2009
Kate Gant and Mark Webster examine how health targets and documentation can boost the case for arts work read more
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From the editor
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2009
Guest editor Donald Hutera
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"We are all dancers": dance and Parkinson's Disease
Issue: Spring 2008
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009
Amanda Fogg on the Mark Morris Dance Group's work with the Brooklyn Parkinson Group read more
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Un abrazo sin tiempo (an embrace beyond time)
Issue: Autumn 2008
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009
Ruth Pethybridge travelled to the roots of the Tango and found an inspiring source for well-being in an unlikely place read more
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Developing a regional infrastructure for dance and health
Issue: Winter 2008
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Dance4's Learning Manager Vanessa McGuire outlines the work being undertaken in the East Midlands to place dance firmly on the health agenda
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Walking a tightrope
Issue: Winter 2008
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Take Art's Dance Director Chris Fogg explains how partnerships have helped make Take Art more sustainable read more
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Breathing space
Issue: Winter 2008
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Donald Hutera explores the work of Breathing Space in nurturing health and emotional well being
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The mourners' dance: first steps
Issue: Winter 2008
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Independent Artist Doran George in a new residency programme at Chisenhale Dance Space deals with the delicate issue of bereavement
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We're still dancing
Issue: Winter 2008
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Daphne Cushnie on the difference dance makes to the lives of people with Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease
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Dance and obesity: a big issue
Issue: Winter 2008
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Jan Burkhardt describes Dance Action Zone Leeds' activity programme to combat obesity in young people
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When time does not fly
Issue: Winter 2008
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Bisakha Sarker, Artistic Director of Chaturangan, demonstrates that dance can make time fly for patients whilst they are waiting for treatment read more
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We can nurture self-esteem, but... how?
Issue: Winter 2008
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Joke Verlinden on what community dance can offer
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Move it!
Issue: Winter 2009
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009
Karen Bell looks at how local authority and primary care partners evaluate and value dance with young people read more
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Strictly Bed...vroom
Issue: Winter 2009
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009
Carolyn Naish and Manuela Beste on a dance programme developed with young participants in a hospital school
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Perfect partners?
Issue: Spring 2009
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009
Leonie Haines on her developing practice with older people read more
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Ctrl.Alt.Shift
Issue: Winter 2009
Date Posted: 26 May 2009
Fiona Ross on Sadler's Wells education team with Ctrl.Alt.Shift on a project about sex education and the political engagement of young people. read more
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Dance to make you 'feel good'
Issue: Winter 2009
Date Posted: 25 May 2009
Gerry Turvey describes her work in dance and mental health.
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Conflict, content and context in the ageing body
Issue: Winter 2009
Date Posted: 25 May 2009
Debbie Lee-Anthony on the 'extraordinary poetry of the ageing dancer'. read more
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I haven't stopped dancing yet...
Issue: Winter 2009
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2009
Karen Gallagher, Artistic Director of Merseyside Dance Initiative, in conversation with Rachel Rogers. read more
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Dance for health in Scotland's schools
Issue: Summer 2007
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2007
Carolyn Lappin, Executive Director of YDance evaluates the impact of dance on children and young people's physical activity levels across Scotland read more
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We all know that dance is good for you, but can we prove it?
Issue: Summer 2007
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2007
Lucy Frazer from Hampshire Dance, Emma Redding and Edel Quin at Laban describe their research into the health benefits for young people participating in dance read more
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Action in Namibia: a shared experience
Issue: Spring 2007
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007
Wieke Eringa, Director of Education and Learning at Northern Ballet Theatre shares her experience of dance working alongside an HIV and AIDS education programme in Namibia read more
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Learning how to fly
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 11 May 2007
Animated, Autumn 1997. Brian Thomas on spreading your wings read more
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Coastal mappings, dancing stories: A community dance residency in New Zealand
Issue: Winter 2007
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007
Petra Kuppers reports on the work she undertook in and around a hospice in Dunedin, New Zealand
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A journey to Bangladesh
Issue: Winter 2006
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Dancer Charlotte Darbyshire on her visit to Bangladesh making connections with dance, disabled people, and communities of people recovering from illness or injury read more
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Hands on... Hands off
Issue: Spring 2002
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2005
Teaching through touch is a delicate matter. Rachel Rist and Jeanette Siddall consider the issues for both pupils and teachers read more
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Diagnostic dance
Issue: Winter 2005
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2005
David Massingham outlines the emergence of Shift, a project for young men with mental health issues, and asks how are we to develop new practice without stepping into the unknown? read more
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Better medicine
Issue: Spring 2005
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2005
Steph Hall, dance development worker at Dance 4, explains OUTward MOVES - a children's out-patient dance and movement project at Nottingham's Queens Medical Centre. read more
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Rita, Sue and Katie, too
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2005
Katie Ward enthuses about the possibilities of using dance to inform young people about sexual health and relationships read more
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Science says...
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2005
From pointe shoes to pointed remarks, Matthew Wyon offers insights into a dancer's health read more
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Hospital lullaby
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2005
Former company manager Mairead Turner offers a personal response to spring issue cover girl Jasmin Vardimon's Lullaby read more
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Labyrinthine designs
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2005
British artist Jim Buchanan roams the world inviting others into his cunning pathways read more
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Awakened by touch
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2005
Follow Katy Dymoke's journey from dance therapist to creator of special training courses for dance artists and activity nurses in mental health settings read more
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Their worlds
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2005
Newcastle-based Amanda Drago charts her first foray into blending new technology and dance for children read more
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Peer pleasure
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2005
East London Dance programme manager Polly Risbridger takes a Leap of Faith over older people dancing read more
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Between the beds...
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2005
Thanks to her mum, choreographer Bim Malcolmson began a whole new career devising dances for hospitals read more
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A change of air
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2005
Dance artist Miranda Tufnell and writer and psychotherapist Brenda Mallon share their approach to the sensing body and the healing power of the imagination read more
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Policy into practice
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2005
Diane Amans sheds welcome light on the meaning of partnership working and how to achieve it read more
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Well being or well meaning?
Issue: Spring 2005
Date Posted: 25 May 2005
Mike White from the Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM), University of Durham on the importance of evaluation
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Breathing space
Issue: Spring 2005
Date Posted: 25 May 2005
Helen Poyner on artists exploring health and wellbeing
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Missing the boat
Issue: Spring 2005
Date Posted: 10 May 2005
Lara Dose, director of the National Network for the Arts in Health on the role of the arts in physical activity read more
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Why dance...?
Issue: Spring 2005
Date Posted: 10 May 2005
Jeremy Spafford asks his fellow dancers from DugOut, an adult community contemporary dance group read more
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Dance for Life
Issue: Spring 2005
Date Posted: 10 May 2005
Cathy Middleton on dancing for life in Bradford read more
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Fit to dance in east Brighton
Issue: Spring 2005
Date Posted: 10 May 2005
Hannah Wheeler on taking a local focus, and the importance of partnerships
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We can do hard things
Issue: Spring 2005
Date Posted: 10 May 2005
Penny Greenland on getting sorted out about dance and health
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Who would have believed it?
Issue: Summer 2002
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2003
Independent artist Ju Gosling discovers the dancer she was and is and reflects on her journey back to being a dance artist and developing an aesthetic that serves her purpose and difference read more
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Dance medicine in action
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2003
Animated, Winter 1998. Rachel-Anne Rist reflects on the final day of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science's (IADMS) annual conference
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Is dance therapy?
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2003
Animated, Summer 1998. Laurence Higgens offers a personal perspective read more
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Speaking two languages
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002
Animated Winter 1999. Here Rachel Rist captures some of the issues emerging from the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science Conference read more
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Beauty from within
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2002
Animated, Summer 1999. Lynda Robbins talks candidly of the distorted belief systems that are denying dancers and their bodies crucial energy and nutrients for health and performance read more
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Bare bones - the facts about the silent epidemic: osteoporosis
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2002
Animated, Summer 2000. One of the most prominent issues facing us all is bone health. Dr Nicola Keay highlights the findings of two research studies
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Time left over
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002
Animated, Summer 2001. Martin Wilson reflects upon the role of the artist within the context of a specialist mental health trust where patients are valued members of the community read more
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Primary tool
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002
Animated, Autumn 2001. Movement dance therapy aids emotional and physical integration. Here Sara Bannerman-Haig attempts to demystify some of the processes involved read more
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forWard motion!
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002
Animated, Autumn 2001. How can dance engage with young people in hospital? Here Rachel Elliott lifts the lid on forWard motion! the new work she directs for Green Candle Dance Company
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Common knowledge
Issue: Winter 2002
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002
Because arts in health work proceeds from the personal it poses subtle problems for evaluation. Mike White explains why joined up practice is crucial
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Recovering heart
Issue: Spring 2002
Date Posted: 27 May 2002
Here Miranda Tufnell speaks candidly of the corrosive effect of lack of movement and of the body's need to reconnect with the world around read more
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Thinking habits
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 31 Dec 1999
Animated, Spring 1998. So how do you think? Brian Thomas dispels some myths read more
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