The AHRC has awarded additional funds to the project to disseminate the findings as they are beginning to emerge through preliminary analysis to a range of potential users and beneficiaries and non-dance research audiences. The dissemination scheme is a new initiative to the AHRC and the project has been chosen as one of five to be evaluated by consultants from Price Waterhouse Coopers.

This website is central to our dissemination process. While this first ‘public’ level offers details of the overall project: aims, methods, stage of development, associated activities and tentative outcomes, the second level can be accessed by interviewees and others (teachers and physiotherapists) involved in the research by means of an individual password. The aim is to set up a discussion forum between participants via the notice board and to provide further data for future work in this field. We want the participants to have an active role in the research as it moves towards its completion. If you have been interviewed for the project or have been involved in the workshops, you will also be able to access the second level of the website. We will also be setting up a system whereby individual dancers can each see their own mapped body scan through their password (but not of any other interviewee of course).


2007 - Dissemination workshops/symposium

Workshop 1 with health professionals, arts therapists, dance related specialists and practitioners. This workshop at LCF was facilitated by Christopher Cook, January 15

Workshop 2 with health professionals, dance and sports related specialists and researchers, and practitioners. This workshop at LCF was facilitated by Jeanette Siddall, January 18.

The workshops focused on the role of body scanning and pain and injury mapping as a potentially reflexive and therapeutic tool in assisting dancers to maximise their performance potential. The concern was to explore the potential uses/problems of employing this tool with other individual or client groups. We are in the process of transcribing the workshops and will put the discussion on the members webpage in due course and we would be interested in coments on these events too.

Sympsium with dancers, health professionals and other interested parties. The symposium was held at the Royal Institute of British Architecture on 26th April to an invited audience. It was chaired by Christopher Cook.

Future events

All participants (dancers, dance companies, teachers, health professionals) will be invited to a further discussion forum at London College of Fashion before the start of the autumn term, where they will be provided with a summary of the main findings. The date for this is the 10 September 2007.