Dancing into Brain Health

• Moving Toward Embodiment w/ Dr. Glenna Batson

  How do we define embodiment? How does the study of neuroscience and dance inform practice and vice versa? How might engaging in these inquiries translate into better quality of life for all of us as we age?  In today’s episode of Dancing into Brain Health, our guest is dancer/researcher Dr. Glenna Batson whose multi-decade long career has aligned dance with critical somatic education, human movement science, embodied cognitive neuroscience and neuro-rehabilitation. To learn more about Dr. Glenna Batson, visit her website www.thfold.net  or follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenna-batson-3b1a5a82/ and Instagram @berylgb.                 Read some of Dr. Batson’s work:Latest Book Publication (Just released – March 2025 – Epub and Hardback): Susan Sentler & Glenna Batson (eds) artmaking as embodied enquiry: entering the f/old: https://www.intellectbooks.com/artmaking-as-embodied-enquiryBatson G, Blaesing BE, Nogueira Haas A, Hugenschmidt CE, DeSouza JFX. Dance, Embodied Agency and Neuroplasticity in Aging. Ebook, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 2024. https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/55751/dance-embodied-agency-and-neuroplasticity-in-aging/magazine Glenna Batson with Margaret Wilson – Body and Mind in Motion – Dance and Neuroscience in Conversation (2014)https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo18074343.htmlBatson G. Human Origami: The Embryo as a Folding Life Continuum. Journal of Prenatal and Life Sciences. http://www.journalprenatalife.com/index.php/prenatal/article/view/Human%20OrigamiBatson G, Hugenschmidt CE, Soriano CT (2016). Verbal Auditory Cueing of Improvisational Dance: A Proposed Method for Training Agency in Parkinson’s Disease. Frontiers in Neurology. ⁠https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4756105/Learn more about your host, Magda Kaczmarska, and DanceStream Projects on our website: https://dancestreamprojects.org/ or follow us on Instagram: @ dancestream_projects  To engage with our events, meet our partners and browse the latest arts+health research & resources, check out our monthly newsletter, “Dancing into Brain Health”: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7250209162221993986/ This episode of Dancing into Brain Health was edited and produced by me, Magda Kaczmarska and Hilary Brown-Istrefi. The music for this show is the title cut from the album, Critical Path by Joe Venegoni and Carl Weingarten.

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• From Body to Narrative w/ Dr. Adolfo Garcia

  Which comes first – understanding of action language or the action itself? How are our abilities to describe actions linked to our ability to enact them? In today’s episode of Dancing into Brain Health, our guest is neuroscientist and neurolinguist Dr. Adolfo García whose research is uncovering the neural mechanisms behind motor-language coupling and how this understanding can help individuals who are living with neurodegenerative conditions. To learn more about Dr. Adolfo Garcia, visit his website: https://adolfogarcia.com.ar/ or follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adolfomgarcia/Read Dr. Garcia’s papers on the neural mechanisms of motor-language coupling: “A moving story: Whole-body motor training selectively improves the appraisal of action meanings in naturalistic narratives” (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12928-w)and “Body into Narrative: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Signatures of Action Text Processing After Ecological Motor Training” (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36368604/ as well as this paper on the fast recruitment of motor circuits by action verbs: “How meaning unfolds in neural time: Embodied reactivations can precede multimodal semantic effects during language processing” (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31059796/).Learn more about your host, Magda Kaczmarska, and DanceStream Projects on our website: https://dancestreamprojects.org/or follow us on Instagram: @ dancestream_projects To engage with our events, meet our partners and browse the latest arts+health research & resources, check out our monthly newsletter, “Dancing into Brain Health”: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7250209162221993986/This episode of Dancing into Brain Health was edited and produced by Magda Kaczmarska and Hilary Brown-Istrefi. The music for this show is the title cut from the album, Critical Path by Joe Venegoni and Carl Weingarten.

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• Dancing into Speech Improvement w/ Dr. Constantina Theofanopoulou

  Dance has often been called the universal language. Whether engaging with dance as performers or audience members, we often find ourselves transfixed with the ability of this movement-based communication to move us and connect us. In this inaugural episode of Dancing into Brain Health, we uncover the ways dance might indeed help us speak. Our guest is neuroscientist and dancer Dr. Constantina Theofanopoulou whose research is uncovering the neural mechanisms behind how engaging in dance may actually support or even rehabilitate speech. ***To learn more about Dr. Constantina Theofanopoulou, visither website: https://www.constantinatheofanopoulou.com/or follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-constantina-theofanopoulou-4a3649200/You can read her paper published in the Journal ofAlzheimer’s Disease: “Dancing towards speech improvement: Repurposing dance for motor speech deficits in neurodegenerative diseases” here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/13872877241313304***You can learn more about your host, Magda Kaczmarska, and DanceStream Projects on our website: https://dancestreamprojects.org/ or follow us on Instagram: @dancestream_projects To engage with our events, meet our partners and browse the latest arts+health research & resources, check out our monthly newsletter, “Dancing into Brain Health”: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7250209162221993986/This episode of Dancing into Brain Health was edited and produced by Magda Kaczmarska and Hilary Brown-Istrefi. The music for this show is the title cut from the album, Critical Path by Joe Venegoni and Carl Weingarten. 

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