Arts-Based Co-Production in Parkinson’s Dance and Research

Description

What do people with Parkinson’s disease and their partners experience as the role of dance for Parkinson’s in their everyday lives?

How can we further develop dance for Parkinson’s and other forms of collaborative, person-centred treatment in the light of those experiences?

What possibilities and challenges arise in co-production in collaborative, participatory research? How can we further develop collaborative research through the use of arts-based methods?

The conference takes its starting-point in a large-scale research project. The project is entitled “The dialogic co-production of knowledge: how people with Parkinson’s and relatives talk about dance for Parkinson’s” with the shorter title “Dancing with Parkinson’s”. It is a collaboration between Roskilde University, the Parkinson’s Association, Denmark and Tivoli Ballet School and is funded by the VELUX foundations.

In collaborative, participatory treatment, research and research communication, the aim is that all voices are heard and taken seriously. At the same time, co-production is often seen as an unconditionally good thing, and this means that it is easy to overlook its complexity and challenges! The research project provides insight into co-production as an entity that is, at one and the same time, important, complex and tensional. The project homes in on two kinds of co-production. The first kind takes place in dance for Parkinson’s. Here, dancers create embodied and aesthetic experiences together that may play a key role in living a meaningful life with Parkinson’s. The second kind takes place in research in which arts-based methods are put to use to open up for embodied and aesthetic ways of experiencing the world and co-producing knowledge.

The conference will present the project’s results and open up dialogically for new ideas across conference participants’ different experiences. At the conference, participants will both practise and discuss arts-based co-production. We will do that partly by taking part in dance for Parkinson’s (more specifically, Ballroom Fitness™ and Dance for PD®), and partly by using the arts-based research methods we have applied in the project.

On both days, dance and arts-based research will be on the programme. On the first day, the emphasis will be on dance; on the second day, the emphasis will be on research methods and the project’s contributions to practice and research.

Period	22 Nov 2021 → 23 Nov 2021
Event type	Conference
Location	Copenhagen, DenmarkShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International