Did you know Scottish Ballet offers innovative dance programmes that can improve community health and wellbeing? We are a National Centre for Dance Health and have been creating wellbeing experiences since 2013 – bringing joy across generations in Scotland, the UK and internationally.
Find movement that inspires you:
- Neurological Health: Dance for Parkinson’s Scotland, dementia-friendly Time to Dance®, or SB Elevate® for people living with multiple sclerosis. Three evidence-based programmes which combine creativity with targeted exercises to support physical and emotional wellbeing.
- Young People: Safe to Be Me® uses dance to empower young people. Led by our experts, workshops explore identity, empathy, allyship, and inclusion. The Close supports young adults who have faced adversity.
- Emotional and physical support: Health at Hand® resources offer movement-based activities for health professionals to combat physical and emotional stress. Emerge provides specialist support to people living with long Covid.
Dance wherever you are: We offer programmes in studios, online, schools, care homes, health settings and even on doorsteps.
Research and evaluation:
Our SB Health research committee ensures robust, meaningful research and evaluation design, increasing the evidence base and demonstrating impact.
‘Dance Health removes the stigma of being a patient and lifts them to a place beyond expectations of themselves, as a dancer. This brings significant confidence, wellbeing and the ability to express themselves and enable their own recovery’. Dr. Dave Caeser
‘As a total non-dancer, SB Elevate® has opened my mind and confidence to enjoy dancing. I feel that my body is responding so well to the different moves and my brain is challenged to embrace the instruction’. SB Elevate participant
Ready to start your dance journey? Visit scottishballet.co.uk to learn more, refer a patient or client, or to self-refer.
Lisa Sinclair is the Senior Dance Health Manager at Scottish Ballet.
