Line Dance for Parkinson's
Robert has been exploring the potential of contemporary dance and technology, to create immersive and digital experiences in collaboration with people living with Parkinson’s disease. He is interested in how technology meets the liveness of dance as a way to expand the experience of the body and how this can benefit and support people with Parkinson’s. The research aims to facilitate social and joyous spaces of connection for the Parkinson’s community and simply to get people moving together as a way to stimulate both the mind and body.
The most recent phase of this research, supported by Arts Council England, has been to develop a digital ‘Line Dance for Parkinson’s Disease’ which can be learnt, re-performed and shared by people living with, and connected to Parkinson’s Disease – Think traditional line dancing, Pina Bausch’s line dance and TikTok trends in dance. The research recognises the overwhelming under representation of LGBTQIA+ and POC individuals in the Dance for Parkinson’s community and works to build a more inclusive and accessible project for this specific community.
Digital Artist // Costas Kazantzis
Movement and Performance // Sharia Johnson and Deepraj Singh
Sound // Ama//Mizu Music
Volumetric Capture // Good Measure Studio
Choreographic research: Eglantine Bart, Thomas Bradley, Rindra Dianor, Gilad Jerusalmy, Michael Loehr, Milena Twiehaus and Sara Wilhemsson.
With special thanks to David Leventhal, Pernille Charrington, Joanne Duff and the Wimbledon Dance for Parkinson’s group, ‘Musical Moving’.
Supported by Arts Council England.
