Workshop "Dance, Health and Aging"
Training to teach adapted dance for the elderly (60-90+)
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Workshop "Dance, Health and Aging"
Training to teach adapted dance for the elderly (60-90+)
Concept
A practical workshop for teaching artists and teachers looking at developing appropriate dance content and progression of learning to support senior learners and their physical and mental wellbeing (age 65-90+ years)
- Discover teaching strategies to enable enhanced physical movement, range of motion, balance, fluidity and improved stamina for senior dancers
- Develop the attention and focus capacity of seniors through optimal cueing language that facilitates movement skills learning for all publics.
- Structure progression of learning and dance content to promote brain health and increase cognitive reserve at any age – warding off dementia
- Introducing and progressing creative improvisation to challenge reaction time, executive choice function and periphery vision – components of falling
- Building courage and risk taking through dance
Professor
Clare Guss-West, International specialist in applied Dance for Health
Language
French and English