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MOVING KINSHIP: Rare young onset dementia

MOVING KINSHIP: Rare young onset dementia

Moving Kinship creates dance with and for individuals, families and communities

 

“In the dementia sections of [her new book] Moving Kinship, Beatrice Allegranti has shared widely and eloquently her knowledge and understanding of, and innate connection with, those who are marginalised and stigmatised, and offered positive, creative, well researched, practised and implemented means to break down these barriers.”

Pippa Kelly, Award winning dementia journalist

Moving Kinship® is a transdisciplinary practice that takes place in UK and international participatory hubs located in arts centres, museums, hospitals and grass roots organisations. Created by Beatrice Allegranti in 2016, the project involves making bespoke and trauma-informed live and digital performances with and for audiences as a way of engaging ethically with the many complex and intersecting challenges we are confronted with in our troubled world. Working  across forms (choreographic, film, conversational, illustration, writing, capoeira, music), the aim of the bespoke hubs is to activate modes of collaboration, collectivity and nurture cultures of multiple belongings and care. The hubs give rise to micro-performances as well as full scale artistic works. To date, Beatrice and her team have worked intergenerationally with families affected by rare early onset dementia, youth environmental activists, LGBTQI+ communities and activists, as well as artists and scientists in the UK, Norway, the Netherlands and Japan.

 

This page documents the Moving Kinship Hubs with people living with rare young onset dementia and their families.

 

Photo: Julia Testa

 

 

This is a free resource, supported by Arts Council England, Public Health and Surrey Arts and has partnered with the social prescribing portfolio in GP surgeries and NHS Trusts across the UK.

If you are interested in taking part in the project as an indvidual or would like to host a Moving Kinship Hub as an organisation email here for an information flyer.

 


Photo & Dancer: Rudzani Moleya
2Photo: Julia Testa

200118_Bea-selected_42Photo: Julia Testa

 

The Moving Kinship methodology, has been developed as a rigorous creative process that involves creating dance with and for diverse audiences. The project draws from Beatrice Allegranti’s feminist practice and research by interrogating socio-culturally ubiquitous issues and taboos such as loss (of identity, language, memory, kinship, home), body ownership, self-other care and Othering.

 

 

Photo: Aidan Orange     Dancers: Aneta Zwierzynska and Marc Stevenson
Photo: Julia Testa      Dancers: Maria Olga Palliani and Luke Birch

 

 

Funding

Arts Council England, Public Health; Alexandra Palace, Surrey Arts.

Partnerships

Alexandra Palace; Merton Arts Space; Merton Council; Public Health (Merton); Dementia Action Alliance; Dementia Pathfinders; St George’s NHS; Created Out of Mind at Wellcome; University of Roehampton; Bergen International Festival; Red Cross Bergen; University of Bergen; South West Yorkshire NHS; LGBTQ Music Study Group; Yorkshire Dance, Surrey Arts, Dance 21; Queer Britain Museum.

Publications

Research publications emerging from the Moving Kinship project:

Allegranti, B. (2019) ‘Moving Kinship: Between Choreography, Performance and the More-Than-Human’. In Prickett, S, and Thomas, H. The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies. London: Routledge.

Allegranti, B. (2020) ‘Dancing Activism: Choreographing the Material With/in Dementia. In Chaiklin, S. and Wengrower, H. Dance Movement Therapy and the Creative Process: International perspectives. New York: Routledge.

Allegranti, B. (2016) ‘Dementia and Embodied Psychotherapy’. Therapy Today Magazine. BACP Publication. Cover story.