Healthier Dancer Updates

Recently I have been talking about "hub sites" which the National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science have been setting up through the Healthier Dancer Programme.

This video by the BBC shows a dancer talking about her experience at one of these Hub sites and how much it helped her to see a dance specialist who properly understood her injuries.

I previously blogged about my thoughts on whether dancers should be entitled to free specialist healthcare and discussed my opinions with a few students on the course. It is interesting to see that this is developing into an argument after collecting survey results from my participants who are spread over a wide range of professional dance companies all over the world. It is especially interesting to see that there is even a divide in the opinions from dancers.

Another point about the Healthier Dancer Programme is how little dancers seem to know about it, although this  could be due to the network of dancers that I have. Many work abroad although they reside in England. 

I think the National institute of Dance Medicine and Science would probably do well do advertise what they are doing further to gain more support. 

Had you previously heard about the programme?

How are things going?

Hi everyone, how are things going for you?
I've almost finished collecting in all of my data and have started drafting up parts of my critical review.
I actually found the interviewing really interesting. Before going ahead with it I couldn't really see different answers to the questions than my own. Some of the answers really surprised me and some were different to the observations that I had made. Did you find the same thing?
Now that I've started typing everything up I've found it's a tricky business to try and get everything out of my head and onto the page but I'm just trying not to get too snowed under with all of the information. I've found it difficult not to start evaluating in my inquiry analysis and to know which piece of what I'm trying to say should go where.
What stage are you at?
A notebook to jot down stray ideas has still been my saving grace. Is there anything else you can suggest to help?
I've also started to think about what I'm going to do for the professional artifact. This seems like quite a challenge and I've had a look at some previous blogs for some ideas but still not sure what to commit to.
Hope things are going well for everyone,
Emily