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Move Dance Feel Workshops with Emily Jenkins

Second Wednesday of the month 12,00 to 13,15

Next sessions: 9th October, 13th November, 11th December, 8th January, 12th February

Emily is a dance and health specialist, and founder of Move Dance Feel – a dance company specifically for the cancer community.

These sessions are centred around release, reciprocity and joy, inviting you to connect more deeply with yourselves and others. Together we’ll move through gentle warm up explorations and learn short dance phrases – tailored to everyone’s pace. The sessions involve 60 minutes of dancing followed by an optional 15 minute chat, to reflect and share with one another after dancing.

No prior dance experience is necessary, and both seated and standing options will be offered. Please wear comfortable clothing that you can move easily in. We encourage dancing in bare feet or socks.

Move Dance Feel is an award winning and life enhancing initiative, advocating for Dance in Cancer Care. The benefits of dance in the context of cancer include improved wellbeing, mood, range of motion, confidence, coordination, energy levels and body appreciation, as well as alleviation of stress and anxiety, and a reduction in feelings of loneliness. To find out more see the evidence page on Move Dance Feel’s website.

About Emily

Emily Jenkins designs, implements and artistically leads life enhancing dance initiatives. She has worked in dance for over fifteen years, and in that time has created and delivered many opportunities for dance engagement with both cultural and health organisations.

In 2016 Emily founded Move Dance Feel, a company offering dance to women living with and beyond cancer, and works closely with cancer support services to incorporate dance into their care programmes. As part of Move Dance Feel’s advocacy work and the training programmes they provide Emily is spearheading an international #danceincancercare movement, creating a network of artists, researchers, healthcare professionals and students operating in this space.

Emily has a particular interest in addressing health inequality through dance. Building on the success of Move Dance Feel she established Women Who Dance in 2023 as a way of providing safe and creative spaces for all women. The project aims to reduce loneliness among women, foster fear rebellion, and enable physical and mental expansion.

Since 2019 Emily has served as a committee member for the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, and in 2020 she was selected as Churchill Fellow. In 2021 she won a National Lottery Art, Culture and Film Award, and Positive News magazine named her as one of ‘10 ordinary people who made 2021 extraordinary’.

Emily graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Performing Arts, Culture and Communication from Oxford Brookes University, receiving the Keith Andrews prize for excellence in Performing Arts. Following which she gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Community Dance and a Masters degree in Creative Practice from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

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