14/11/2025
📌 We are continuing the 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐉𝐨𝐲 project with great excitement and are preparing for an artistic residency in the 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦, 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧, at the end of November.
🫶 During the visit to the UK, the Romanian delegation will receive full support to offer performances, take part in workshops, and participate in a symposium at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) on the theme of dance and movement for people living with Parkinson’s disease.
✨ The workshops and symposium will connect practitioners and participants from North West England and Romania. We will also visit other Dance for Parkinson’s groups in the region (Chorley, Lancaster, and Rossendale), as well as the class in Preston.
✨ The symposium organized by the University of Central Lancashire will strengthen a network of professionals — doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists working in the field of Parkinson’s within the UK National Health Service (NHS) — alongside choreographic artists such as Mel Brierley, Helen Gould (LPM Dance), Penny Collinson, and Daphne Cushnie.
✅ The residency will generate an exchange of methodologies and good practices in Dance for Parkinson’s, enrich the artistic and therapeutic repertoire through international collaboration, increase the international visibility of the project, and strengthen its sustainability through transnational relationships.
💚 We are ready to live this experience of discovery and shared movement, where gestures, ideas, and presences naturally intertwine into a common language of joy.
🎬 Contagious Joy is a project organized by Profeti Art SRL, communicated through Asociația Entuziart.
Partners: University of Central Lancashire, LPM Dance Conscious Bodies, The National Centre for Dance Bucharest ( Centrul Naţional al Dansului Bucureşti), Developing Art, Neuristica, and Asociația Direcție și Sens.
Media partners: Bookhub, București FM, Ceașca de Cultură, Contacte Culturale, Happening, Iscoada, LIFE.ro, Litera 9, Palindrom, Revista Golan, and Radio România Cultural.
✅ Contagious Joy is a project co-financed by AFCN (The Administration of the National Cultural Fund of Romania).
The project does not necessarily represent the position of AFCN. AFCN is not responsible for the project’s content or for the manner in which the project results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.