Exploring Cradling and Dance in Care: Proposals for Cultural Mediation
for 2024-2025 by Two Choreographers
Being in Touch
To enrich our choreographic research and our creative process, we'd like to collaborate with medical and social facilities by proposing a series of artistic mediation activities. These activities will include meetings, workshops and discussions around the theme of rocking. Our aim is to understand how care professionals, who do not come from the world of performance, integrate rocking into their practices and into their communities.
Details of the proposal
We are offering a series of artistic mediation activities in collaboration with medical and social services, focusing on rocking and dance. The approach takes place in several stages:
1. Meeting with care teams**: Understanding the issues and operating methods of the facilities, and experimenting with rocking activities with care staff and artists.
2. Meeting with beneficiaries**: Forging a relationship based on listening and exchange by sharing memories of lullabies and stories of rocking.
3. Forming a mixed group**: Made up of carers, beneficiaries, residents and artists, this group will take part in rocking and dancing sessions, adapted to each person's psychomotor abilities. These sessions will focus on elements such as touch, connection, trust and movement.
4. Respect for consent and group dynamics**: Using contact-improvisation practices, we will work progressively and respectfully, initially with gender-segregated groups, while offering inclusive options.
5. Feedback and reflection**: Sharing the material gathered and reflecting on the impact of the experience on the participants' professions.
The activities will be developed over the long term, with sessions lasting between 1.5 and 2 hours, for a total of up to 60 hours. The schedule will be adjusted according to your organisation's availability.
1. Meeting with care teams**: Understanding the issues and operating methods of the facilities, and experimenting with rocking activities with care staff and artists.
2. Meeting with beneficiaries**: Forging a relationship based on listening and exchange by sharing memories of lullabies and stories of rocking.
3. Forming a mixed group**: Made up of carers, beneficiaries, residents and artists, this group will take part in rocking and dancing sessions, adapted to each person's psychomotor abilities. These sessions will focus on elements such as touch, connection, trust and movement.
4. Respect for consent and group dynamics**: Using contact-improvisation practices, we will work progressively and respectfully, initially with gender-segregated groups, while offering inclusive options.
5. Feedback and reflection**: Sharing the material gathered and reflecting on the impact of the experience on the participants' professions.
The activities will be developed over the long term, with sessions lasting between 1.5 and 2 hours, for a total of up to 60 hours. The schedule will be adjusted according to your organisation's availability.
"Artistic and Healthcare Collaboration Program"
We're delighted to be working with the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Riberac Dronne Double, supported by the ARS Nouvelle Aquitaine, to reinvent the relationship between dance and care. The aim of the project is to connect artists, nursing staff, patients and residents in the medicine and palliative care department of the Riberac hospital, as well as the EHPAD de la Meynardie. The patients concerned include those with serious progressive illnesses, those at the end of their lives, and those suffering from cognitive disorders, with the aim of observing the beneficial effects that this can have on them.
Our approach is intended to be delicate and progressive, starting with a respectful immersion in the care setting and a thorough understanding of the participants. This creative collaboration is designed to disrupt and positively transform all participants and teams.
Our approach is intended to be delicate and progressive, starting with a respectful immersion in the care setting and a thorough understanding of the participants. This creative collaboration is designed to disrupt and positively transform all participants and teams.