Bridging the arts and health through allyship and creativity
DanceStream Projects has a mission to spark brain health and build creative community through dance and movement.
DanceStream Projects is a community-based creative collective in New York City, dedicated to building healthy, expressive and inclusive community through the vehicle of dance, as the art of body movement. We believe that dance is a universal language and that the arts, and specifically dance, are an integral part of the health care ecosystem! By engaging in co-creative arts practices, we are expanding our capacity and agency for promoting our individual and community health. By engaging in the arts, we are putting our brain health into our hands and our bodies.
DanceStream Projects is inspired by the concept of “upstreaming” health.
What is upstreaming? Upstreaming health is a concept that recognizes that the root causes of ill-health are systemic and especially within the western model of medicine further marginalize individuals and propagate a culture of crisis. Upstreaming health addresses supporting individuals and communities through a focus on prevention and empowerment. Upstreaming places health outside of the river – catching people before they fall in, invoking cooperation and interdependence in the larger health care ecosystem of housing, nutrition, green spaces, urban and rural design, legal assistance, immigration, education and social engagement. DanceStream Projects steps into this space to provide direct allyship and empowerment to communities bridging the arts and health.
Our Vision
Each one of us possesses the ability to harness our creative expression to support building meaningful communities around us. DanceStream Projects works with individuals, communities and organizations to amplify creative expression, build community and empower individuals by shifting the power of knowledge, expression and agency into their hands, minds and bodies. Together we build creative community and spark brain health!
Our Approach
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.
“I honestly don't think I could have survived the pandemic without the online programming. What you do and your attitude and acceptance is invaluable.
— care partner and wife of a participant of Stories in the Moment
Please excuse our mess! Our site is still under construction. Thank you!
Contact
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
(917) 336-9018