Our Mission

DanceStream Projects sparks brain health and builds creative communities through dance and movement.

Bridging the arts, science and community, DanceStream Projects creates opportunities for all of us to support our brain health through dance. Dance is a powerful vehicle for promoting cognition, wellbeing, and physical health. It also heightens our agency, emphasizes our self, and celebrates our collective joy. Dance is a universal language we can all tap into to amplify our collective stories. 

Through the shared language of dance, DanceStream Projects aims to shift narratives of aging and dementia from one-note narratives of loss to ones of complexity, growth, and hope, while inspiring awareness, agency, and access to brain health.

Our Vision

DanceStream Projects envisions a future in which:

  • Everyone has access to quality and evidence-informed dance programs that support and extend brain health. 

  • Everyone has access to and awareness of the things they can do to support their brain health at any point in their lives.

  • The diversity of our global community is represented in the knowledge we have about brain health. Artists, diverse elders and people living with dementia should be included in every step of research and implementation. 

  • The role and value of dance in promoting brain health is recognized and supported. 

Our Values

Nothing About Us Without Us

As social practice artists, we recognize the value of lived-experience experts. We partner with individuals and communities to elevate their creative voice through dance.

Proactive Over Reactive

The arts play a pivotal role in upsteaming health. By engaging in the arts we can promote lifelong brain health. 

Economic Justice

Older persons, people living with dementia, and dancers face many economic challenges. We stand behind addressing this inequity in partnering with and fighting to ensure those who wish to join our programs can do so. We fight to ensure the artists who work with us receive a fair wage. 

Belonging is a Collective Action

Community and collaboration is central to our work. Through our co-creative work, we negotiate what belonging means for us as we navigate aging, a diagnosis of dementia, or other changes.