Here are some photos capturing our process. Our goal was to be able to offer the opportunity to encourage older people to be proactive in regards to their health and wellbeing through dance and creativity, evidence-based practice and a relational approach. The creative development workshops were aimed at refining our learnings of how to encourage older people to involve themselves in active, creative endeavours, and in turn, be seen and heard by their peers and other audiences alike.

A longer-term aim is to counter ageism and continue strengthening community inclusive of older people. We moved our bodies and explored shapes, angles, repetition, emotion, range of movement, and storytelling tableaus. We worked through dynamic trust exercises and experiences of physical boundaries and consent. We responded to verbal prompts, music, a live flautist and specific choreography. We moved through the space freely, to begin the process of discovering each participant's own unique expression through the body and making connections with each other!'

Julie and I were most grateful for the support from the RADF (Regional Arts Development Fund) to assist us in making this valuable start! Thank you to all the participants, contributers and the audience who came to see the final outcome of the show!