DanceStream Projects

03/21/2025

Today, on World Poetry Day, we celebrate how dance, like poetry, is the language of the soul. 🩰✨
Dancing is not only an art—it strengthens memory and helps prevent cognitive decline. Every step is a verse, every turn a memory that stays.

💃🕺 Let’s keep dancing to remember!

📍 Tell us in the comments: What song brings back your best memories? 🎶🧠

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03/14/2025

For Brain Awareness Week (BAW) this March, we're grateful for this video, which joins our campaign.

This video is Dr Krystal Culler, founder and director of the Virtual Brain Health Center and Global Brain Health Institute Fellow. She is joined by her niece Teagan who co-wrote a book with her about brain health.

Book link: https://virtualbrainhealthcenter.com/a-kids-book-about-brain-health/

Instagram handles for collaboration: (her mom)

Special thanks for the collaboration we had this week after the Brain Week event on Monday to offer a Brain Health Dance Social

03/03/2025

We continue to receive videos for our 🧠 campaign. We invite you to meet Anna Mazur, Researcher and yoga instructor. Anna Muzur

My name is Ania. I am a yoga instructor and researcher. I dance because after some time, it allows you to no longer feel your body, as if you are beyond the boundaries of your body. Very relaxing.
Song: I Can’t Get No Satisfaction – Mick Jagger

Join Our Movement! Add your Voice!!

02/21/2025

We continue to receive videos for our 🧠 campaign. We invite you to meet Nitipat Ong Pholchai, Dancer. .pholchai .generative

Join Our Movement! Add your Voice!!

01/23/2025

Meet some of the people who have joined our movement: Elijah Rock Recording Artist / Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health and Founder & President of The Elijah Foundation

Join Our Movement! 🧠

01/16/2025

Meet some of the people who have joined our movement: Dr. Adolfo Garcia is a cognitive neuroscientist, Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center at the Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, Senior Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute, and Associate Researcher at Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

Join Our Movement! 🧠

01/10/2025

Join Our Movement! 🧠

1️⃣ Record your video, introducing yourself with your name and occupation.
2️⃣ Show us your best dance move in the video.
3️⃣ Upload your video to your social media using the hashtag . Feel free to tag us or add us as a collaborator!

🕺🏻Let’s dance!💃🏻

12/03/2024

Give a gift of dance this season.

Dance is a lifeline for many of our participants.

As one participant living with dementia shared: “I can let go of my anxiety, my fear for that hour a week. And that felt really good.”

Your gift of dance is also a gift of connection, self-expression, meaning-making and wellbeing for a person living with dementia or older adult in your community.

This , join us on our mission to ensure every individual living with dementia, their care partners and friends have access to the healing power of dance.

Make your tax-deductible contribution today!
https://dancestreamprojects.org/donate

11/27/2024

Welcome to our November 2024 edition of "Dancing into Brain Health"!
Join us in setting intentions for the upcoming season and beyond to elevate modes of being that center on belonging, dignity and collective well-being.

In this issue:

🧠 learn about our latest research on how dance supports brain health of people living with dementia, which our executive director presented at the National Organization for Arts in Health conference,
🎉 celebrate almost 200 Queens-based older adults who through our partner Queens Community House worked together with us to emphasize the ways dance builds brain health and belonging in their communities
🥇 hear how participants in our dance programs speak about the role of dance in promoting their wellbeing
🌍 reflect alongside global Atlantic Fellows on the role of the arts and creative practice in navigating through critical conversations
💬 meet one of our partners Macarena Espina Díaz and read about her work and the wonderful things we are doing together
🤲 save the date for our first Giving Tuesday campaign coming up December 3, 2024

Subscribe today to engage with our events, meet our partners and browse the latest arts+health research & resources!

🙏 Thank you to Nuria Rius for the beautiful photography, to Susana Sanhueza Rojas for the design of our campaign, to Lizanne Hart Consulting, LLC for shaping our storytelling, to Sze Wah Chin for structuring and streamlining these narratives to a much more elevated space than I could reach alone. And thank you to our team, partners and the communities with whom we collaborate - without you none of this would be possible!

Dear reader, As I reflect on the events of this last month in the United States and the increasing polarization and tension globally, I consider the role DanceStream Projects can play in offering an alternative mode of being: one that centers on belonging, dignity and collective well-being. Coming b