• Release of manuals and findings: therapeutic dance interventions for breast cancer

    Dancing with Health is multi-site pilot study that aimed to evaluate a sixteen week dance programme for women in recovery from breast cancer across five European countries. Edge Hill University led the UK pilot which was delivered over 2019-2020. The study has now released two manuals on it’s website www.dancing-health.eu, which cover the rationale, design, delivery protocols […]

  • Autistic children benefit from dance movement psychotherapy

    Dr Supritha Aithal recently completed her doctoral degree at Edge Hill University. More details of her work with associated publications can be accessed in the project section of this website https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/rcaw/research-projects/children-and-families/

  • Engage: Performance and the Maternal

    Engage: Performance and the Maternal

    We invite you to join ENGAGE….conversations conceived across performance studies and the maternal. A series of online forums which consider, through different artistic and academic perspectives, how maternal performance helps us to understand the lived condition of motherhood. Each forum responds to a themed-provocation (question) and features a panel of guest speakers plus a Q & A. […]