Aesop

Dance to Health is a programme created and delivered by Aesop Arts and Society. Aesop is a charity that uses the arts to help solve a challenge society faces. Dance to Health is a nationwide pioneering community dance programme for older people. It combines evidence-based falls prevention principles with the creativity, expression and energy of dance. Dance to Health programme uses dance to help people improve or maintain their strength and balance. This is important to ensure they continue to get the most out of life. It also reduces pressure on their health system. Dance to Health was created to demonstrate that an arts intervention can address a major challenge. This prompted a key question: what ingredients must an art program have for it to be taken up by the health system and made available to every patient who could benefit?