DANCE FOR CONNECTION
Dance for Connection is passionate about lifting up the spirits of older adults, especially those living with dementia, through co-created expressive dance sessions. As we move to irresistible music, in our seats and on our feet, our hour-long dance programs inspire vitality, while also enhancing neuroplasticity, even in people who appear apathetic and disengaged. Our teacher trainings, workshops, keynote addresses, and professional articles refute the tragic perspective of a dementia diagnosis, replacing it with a story of beauty, joy, and love - the gifts shared in a spontaneously created community.
Dementia Spring interview of Featured Artist Dec 2, 2021
Donna Shares why dance is so important for people with dementiA...
"Dance/movement therapy is primarily about forging a healing relationship where movement and dance are the media, just as words are the medium in verbal psychotherapy... We pay honor when we dance with {people with dementia], when we relate to them in an embodied way, when we attempt to understand their nonverbal communication. When we dance with them, we invite them to be in their bodies, to savor the sensations and experience of vitality, now, in their last days, while they still have bodies."
- Donna Newman-Bluestein