Dance and Movement
Dance movement psychotherapy and community dance for health, from Parkinson's classes and falls prevention to what the depression research does and does not support.
- Seated and Chair Based Dance: What Adapting It Changes, and What It Cannot Replace
May 19, 2026
Adapting downwards changes the room, not just the movement. Sightlines, physical assistance and the one thing a seated class honestly cannot train.
- Dance and Health: Exercise, Therapy and a Social Night Out Are Three Different Things
May 13, 2026
Three quite different activities share one heading. What separates them, why the title is not protected, and the figure this site will not print.
- Movement and Multiple Sclerosis: Fatigue, Balance and the Limits of the Current Work
May 11, 2026
A relapsing condition, a self reported main outcome and heat that makes symptoms worse. Three reasons this research is unusually hard, and where it has got to.
- Dance After Stroke: Feasibility Studies, Small Samples and What Would Need to Be Shown
May 8, 2026
A feasibility study answers whether a trial can be run, not whether the thing works. Why almost all the dance and stroke research is that first kind.
- Dance for Depression: The Mislabelled Effect Size, and What the Review Actually Reports
May 6, 2026
Three trials, 147 people, very low quality, and no firm conclusions. The number in circulation is not an effect size at all, and here is what it really is.
- Tango and Parkinson's Research: How a Small Striking Finding Becomes a Global Claim
April 30, 2026
The claim travels much further than the study. Why no tango figure appears here, and the five stages by which a small result turns into a settled fact.
- Dance for Parkinson's: The Best Supported Corner of Dance Research, and What That Means
April 24, 2026
Best supported is a comparative statement, not a strong one. Why this corner has more trials than the rest, and why no effect size appears on this page.
- Dance, Balance and Falls: A Physical Outcome, and Why That Changes the Argument
April 16, 2026
Falls are counted, not scored on a questionnaire. Why that makes this the most testable dance claim, and why the strongest version is about exercise.
- Dance Movement Psychotherapy: The Profession, the Training and the Missing Protected Title
April 12, 2026
Postgraduate training and an accredited register, but no title protected in law. What the profession involves, and what checking a practitioner actually means.
- Finding a Dance for Health Class: How They Are Organised and What to Ask
April 8, 2026
No register exists on the community side, so every check is one you make yourself. Where these classes come from, and the question people forget to ask.