Competence Center for Culture and Health

The project implies that teenage girls with recurrent psychosomatic disorders can improve their health by participating in unpretentious dancing twice a week, without focusing on performance. The Stockholm Region offers support for succeeding in starting collaborations in the dance method as an initiative for young people's mental health. To date, the Stockholm Region has subsidized 40 training places in the initiative Dance without Requirements through the Competence Center for Culture and Health. They produced a handbook for municipalities that want to start up Dance without requirements programme and help to match dance instructors and municipalities when needed.

The Ballet Academy in Stockholm has in recent years offered dance courses for people with Parkinson's disease. The Competence Center for Culture and Health is making an investment so that more people can take part in the courses. The Dance for Parkinson's method is a complement to other treatment for people living with Parkinson's disease. Balance, mobility and precision are examples of things that you train in dance and which are also important to train as a Parkinson's patient. The Competence Center for Culture and Health subsidizes participation fees during 2020-21 so that more people can take part in the Ballet Academy's Dance for Parkinson's courses. Together with Karlstad University, they will also evaluate the effects of dance to gain more knowledge about how Dance for Parkinson's can become a complement or part of other treatment.