Promote awareness and connection through dance
Dance Moves is a pilot dance for health partnership with Dance City.
Facilitated by professional dance artists, Lynn Campbell and Sophie Douglas, the sessions engage patients in stroke and orthopaedic rehabilitation wards using dance, movement and somatic techniques to promote greater awareness of and connection to our bodies, support patient wellbeing, aid recovery and create social moments to come together.
Meet the dancers
Lynn has over ten years’ experience as a primary school teacher, a teacher for children with disabilities and advisory teacher. She gave up teaching in 1998 to complete her Dance Movement Psychotherapy MA at The Laban Centre and to develop her work as a Movement Therapist and as a dance artist.
Lynn has also studied with The National Childbirth Trust and is an Active Birth Teacher offering movement for pregnancy sessions and Baby Yoga Play sessions with babies 0 – crawling and their mums. In 2013 Lynn qualified as a Movement Medicine teacher and is enjoying bringing these new skills to her work with Bare Toed and to creating opportunities for adults to explore dance, creativity and well-being.
Learn moreSophie Douglas is a dance artist, practitioner and projects manager with interests in community dance, site-adaptive performance and somatic practices.
Sophie has taught extensively in educational and community settings across the SW, including leading the artistic direction of Coast Youth Dance Company between 2018-2021. Sophie’s passion for outreach and engagement has led her to work with a broad range of dance companies and organisations including Pavilion Dance South West, Arts University Bournemouth, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, Made By Katie Green, ZoieLogic Dance Theatre and Dorset Mind.
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