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Projects in 2010

International
Conferences

Memory - the first national conference on dance and dementia

Friday 10th and Saturday 11th December 2010 at the Bluecoat, Liverpool

What a wonderful conference it was!
An evaluation by Liverpool John Moores University is now on-line here.

Chaturangan, in partnership with MDI and the Foundation for Community Dance, held the first national dance and dementia conference in Liverpool, with particular focus on the rôle of dance in the care of dementia.

This innovative conference was a multi-disciplinary arts event combining academic papers, keynote dances, presentations of art based research by leading practitioners and specially commissioned dance performances and films.The conference celebrated best practice in this field and brings together a diverse range of artists, health and medical professionals, care staff, biomedical researchers, arts organisations and friends and families of those living with dementia.

There is a growing interest in how the dance community can contribute to health and well-being especially of those with mental health problems such as memory loss. The Department of Health's National Dementia Strategy (2009) places a central focus on destigmatising dementia, raising awareness, supporting carers, and training and developing care staff.

Health &
Well Being

Tropical Tales (Care and Cure)

Tropical Tales is a cross arts project, the idea is to collect of stories from LSTM (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) and work with a creative team of established artists (painters, poets, musicians, dance and spoken word performers) to produce resource materials; some of this material will be used by local school children and selected material will be published as story cards and innovative digital media, this will initially be available via the Well Travelled Clinic (part of LSTM) and local NHS waiting rooms.

Diverse Dance II

Chaturangan and Encourage North West (previously known as Dark Horse Venture) supported by St Mary’s Millennium Centre provided divers dance (Indian, Chinese and Black dance) and story sessions. Taster sessions were provided at the Millennium Centre, local care homes and for the local Stroke Support Group and other organisations.

The dance sessions was devised for the older people in the community.

Community &
Education
Me-time

Me-time is a community dance project for mothers of children with disability who attend the Everton Children & Family Centre.

The plan was to offer the group the possibility of new activities. They would learn Indian dance movements, and then give a presentation to their children in the nursery. The group responded enthusiastically to the idea of learning a new style of dance, but was reluctant to perform. They became interested in the whole cultural background of the dance. Every community dance project has to be sensitive to the needs of the participants.

Mad About Books

Telling Tales: Story Scrolls from India
Stockport Art Gallery
Exhibition dates 9th July – Sept 25th 2011
North West touring exhibition tells tales from India

Museum visitors across the North West had the chance to see a collection of contemporary Bengali scrolls that have never been on show before. Telling Tales: Story Scrolls from India displayed six beautiful and vibrant scrolls created by leading contemporary Indian artists.

Cross-Arts
Productions

Tropical Tales (Care and Cure)

Tropical Tales is a cross arts project, the idea is to collect of stories from LSTM (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) and work with a creative team of established artists (painters, poets, musicians, dance and spoken word performers) to produce resource materials; some of this material will be used by local school children and selected material will be published as story cards and innovative digital media, this will initially be available via the Well Travelled Clinic (part of LSTM) and local NHS waiting rooms.

Pieces of memory - Pieces of map

Liverpool City Council has designated 2010 as the year of innovation, health and wellbeing, and within this initiative has commissioned ten new dance pieces. Chaturangan is delighted to have been chosen to produce one of these, in light of its earlier work in this area highlighted by the conference "Marks of Time". For this commission Chaturangan is working in partnership with Diane Amans, the founder of Freedom in Dance, well known for her work in training staff in health and social care and managing dance projects in health settings. Our aim is to produce a body of work reflecting on “release from restrictions” from an artistic perspective. The artists will draw on strengths from each other's dance practices, life experience and substantial knowledge of working with older people in a wide range of situations to create this new dance piece.

Resource
development
Inspirational
engagement
Nehru Centre Event

Bisakha Sarker dance at the Nehrus Centre in London.


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