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Breathing Space ‘Celebrating 10 Years’ appeal
Dance Art Foundation’s Breathing Space programme celebrates 10 years of nurturing public health and wellbeing through dance in 2011. To mark our first 10 years, we have launched the ‘Celebrating 10 Years’ appeal to help us raise a final £1,500 for this year’s Breathing Space fundraising target.
Donations will help us extend the reach of Breathing Space across the UK, working nationally with 14 children’s hospices and locally with children’s services in Hacnkey and Tower Hamlets. Please join us in making Breathing Space possible by making a donation today.
Dance, health and wellbeing
Breathing Space is the celebrated dance-in-health initiative that nurtures and supports public health through dance. It comprises a popular programme of dance workshops, residencies and performances for children, young people, adults and elders. Founded in 2001 and expanded in 2006 with the addition of a dedicated Children’s Programme, Breathing Space consistently achieves its objectives to support and inspire health and wellbeing in a diverse range of children and adults at all stages of life. We support those in hospitals, hospices, psychiatric units, schools and community settings across the UK utilising dance as a unique tool for nurturing physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Our workshops and projects offer a ‘breathing space’ for those living with illness, carers and health practitioners. In supportive and playful environments, we use dance, creative movement, artwork and relaxation to assist participants in living with illness. In partnership with health services, our work aims to assist participants to renew the natural ease and rejuvenation that the body’s inner resources can offer. Over the past four years, Breathing Space has worked with over 9000 participants and extended its reach by providing specialist dance-in-health training for over 150 health professionals, care staff and play workers.
I firmly believe that this has helped me in dealing with my illness - Breathing Space adult participant
Thank you for providing this service to our Hospice. Your input helps to make a considerable difference to our children and families, enhancing the quality of their experience; they benefitted greatly in numerous ways. Activities such as these don't really occur for them outside the Hospice environment - Little Havens Hospice
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