Improving Brain Health Through Dance
“That which cannot be spoken can be sung. That which cannot be sung can be danced.”
— French Proverb
DanceStream Provides
Dance for People Living with Dementia
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Stories in the Moment® partners with communities of people living with dementia to amplify their voice. This co-creative dance and storytelling program, The program is designed to boost brain health, support creativity, and expand resources for connection and communication.
Dance for Maintaining Brain Health
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Stories in the Moment for All is a dance program for older adults that is designed to spark brain health, while collectively building spaces of heightened belonging. The program mobilizes all of the ways we connect and communicate, through sound, music and imagination to explore connections between movement and meaning. Together we bring our minds and bodies together to build stories in the moment.
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Rainbow Stories in the Moment is a dance, fitness and storytelling program for LGBTQIA+ elders and allies. The program grew out of a desire to extend the benefit of dance on brain health, physical agility and wellbeing to communities of older adults who identify as LGBTQIA+.
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Created and offered in partnership with UCSF Memory and Aging Center Creative Minds Program, Every Body Moves is a dance and fitness program for older adults designed to promote brain health and support creativity
Every Body Moves is evidence informed, incorporating elements of dance and physical activity that influence positive support of brain health: aerobic activity, balance, coordination, strength training, social connection and creative engagement.
Education and Training Programs
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Our education programs translate complex public health and neuroscience concepts into fun, accessible and engaging events that celebrate community and seed brain healthy habits.
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DanceStream Projects engages communities through diverse creative and educational projects.
Our community-based dance programs ally with communities of older adults specifically people living with dementia and their care partners and lead in ensuring that no older adult or person living with dementia feels alone and without access to meaningful creative community engagement.
Our educational programs work to dismantle misconceptions and place power founded in evidence base in the hands of individuals and communities to be active agents in their own brain health across their life course, transform public narratives around aging, mental health and dementia and promote dementia-friendly community.
In the News
Watch Stories in the Moment® on New York’s ABC7 News!
“This has particularly been effective in helping my husband, who is almost nine years into his Alzheimer’s journey, to connect with this community using his mind and body.”
–Care Partner Participant
“Having a community where everyone can come, at all levels, and see each other in different lights and be a part of a story together is amazing.”
– Director, Queens Community House Social Adult Day Services
Contact Us
Feel free to contact us to learn more about our programs and initiatives. We look forward to hearing from you!
Email
magda@dancestreamprojects.com
Phone
+1 917-336-9018