Date and time: 22 September 2013 at 14.00
Speaker: Hanna Poikonen, Learning Sciences and Higher Education Department of Humanities, Political and Social Sciences Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
Title: Dance on Cortex: Expertise and Rehabilitation
Location: Zoom lecture
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Abstract
In this talk, I will cover my EEG research made with professional dancer and musicians in laboratory and theater contexts through event-related potential and phase synchrony analyses. In addition, I will present our ongoing InMotion study on dance for schizophrenia, which is made in collaboration with the Örebro University, and our Erasmus+ EU project in which our partners from Italy, Spain and Romania apply dance for fragile groups like dementia, autism and mental illnesses.
In collaboration with:
Our collaboration with Balettakademien
The Ballet Academy in Stockholm was founded in 1957 and has become one of the leading dance schools in the Nordic countries. Many of Sweden's most successful dancers, musical artists, and choreographers have been educated at the Ballet Academy. For nearly 10 years, they have been hosting BA Dance Health, where research and practice go hand in hand in the field of Dance and Health. Here, there are classes in various areas such as Dance for Parkinson's, Neurodance, and Dance Health for those aged 60 and above.
”Dance for Health provides holistic, evidence-based alternatives for the individual to manage and adapt to physical, mental and social health challenges. In Dance for Health sessions, trained teaching artists engage people as dancers, rather than patients, in joyful, interactive, artistic activity.” I-IADMS Definition 2021
Read more about dance for health here
Our collaboration with Anna Duberg
Affiliated researcher at the School of Health Sciences at Örebro University and research supervisor at the University Healthcare Research Center, Region Örebro County. Anna is a physiotherapist in child and adolescent psychiatry and currently also works as an innovation coach in the Innovation Team, Region Örebro County. Dissertation in 2016 and her thesis highlights how participation in dance intervention can affect the health for teenage girls with internalizing problems. The method "Dance for Health" was developed in Social Impact Lab, Örebro University och has become widespread nationally and is today implemented in several cities over Sweden.
Current research studies (intervention studies):
- The Dance Project - Dance for adolescent girls with stressrelated problems. RCT.
- Just in TIME study - dance & yoga for girls 9-13 y/o with functional abdominal pain and IBS. RCT.
- SWAN study - Structured Water Dance for adults with profound intellectual and multiple disability. Randomized crossover design.
- DigiYoga CaRe- Digital Yoga Intervention in Cancer Rehabilitation. Breast cancer. Effect on fatigue, systemic inflammation and activity. RCT.
- InMotion - Creative physical training as part of treatment for adults with schizophrenia. RCT.
- ReActivate - Intervention with graded physical activity for youth 12-16 y/o with pain and mental health illness. SCED-design.