Mental Health & Wellbeing
SLiDE
The South London Inclusive Dance Experience (SLiDE) is a Croydon street dance company for people with learning disabilities and learning difficulties.
The company reaches diverse communities and offers a safe place for the local community to explore dance and movement.
LMP cellist Sarah Butcher worked with Professional dancers and adult participants with learning difficulties to devise a new piece and everyone was included and had a say in what we were doing. LMP cellist Sarah Butcher
You can find out more about the project and watch a preview of the composition in a blog post by Sarah.
Living Memories
Living Memories was a pioneering outreach project created by the London Mozart Players, for the London Borough of Croydon. This project gave dementia sufferers the opportunity to interact with musicians and professional dancers.
Alongside two musicians from the orchestra and a team of professional dancers led by Lauren Potter, this project brought the joy of music to residents in six homes across the Borough of Croydon that specialise in the care of elderly people with dementia.
This project aimed to stimulate memories of times and ideas that were perhaps lost through concerts of popular and familiar classical music and a sing-a-long to ‘old time’ songs. The project also aimed to energize and engage the residents, and to help everyday tasks such as eating lunch to become a more peaceful time for the residents.