About me
Movement and dance artist for community health. Researcher / Trainer / Mentor
Brierley M. A. (2023) Artful carers and choreographies of care in the Parkinson’s dance community IN A Practice Handbook for Creative Arts and Dementia, CDAN. (in progress)
Brierley, M. A. (2021), ‘Meditations on co-creative dance explorations with people with Parkinson’s’, Dance, Movement & Spiritualities, 8:1&2, pp. 15–32, https://doi.org/10.1386/dmas_00024_1
Brierley, M. A. (2020), ‘Changing perspectives through somatically informed dance praxis: Reflections of one to one dance and Parkinson’s practice as home performance’, Ph.D. thesis, London: University of Roehampton.
Brierley, M. A. (2016), ‘Dance and Parkinson’s: A guiding practice for community care’, Animated, Autumn/Winter, pp. 34–35.
People Dancing Professional Member
People Dancing is the development and membership organisation for community and participatory dance, driving forward inclusion and excellence through professional development, resources & safeguarding services, specialist programmes & networks.
Website: communitydance.org.uk
Dance for PD®
Dance for PD invites anyone to explore the joys and benefits of dance, music, and the creative spirit. It creates collaborative partnerships among Parkinson’s, arts, and medical organizations in cities around the world to create robust opportunities for the Parkinson’s community.
Website: danceforparkinsons.org
ISMETA
Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (RSME/T). Here clients can access ISMETA’s Scope/Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics.
website: ismeta.org
- 2024: Creative lead for at Artists Sharing day, Live Well & Dance with Parkinson’s, People Dancing, Salford University.
- 2022: Online student workshop in Authentic Movement Practice, Salford University.
- 2021: Online research presentation for students of Dr Martha Eddy (Laban Movement Fundamental training in Greece).
- 2019: Dance & Parkinson’s workshop, one-day symposium ‘Creativity, Compassion, and Growth’ with Dr Richard Coaten & Matt Lawrie, York St. John’s University.
- 2017: Advanced CPD training for Dance & Parkinson’s Partnerships UK, Lancaster University.
- 2017: Dance & Parkinson’s workshop at CDAN conference, Sheffield Hallam University.
- 2023: Research poster presentation at the World Parkinson’s Congress, Barcelona.
- 2023: research presentation, World Arts Embodiment Forum: Changing Flow states as support to health and wellbeing through dance/movement for the Parkinson’s community.
- 2021: PhD Research presentation at the conference Arts-based co-production in Parkinson’s dance and research, Roskilde University, Copenhagen.
- 2020: Research presentation, Symposium ‘Bridging the Gap: Somatic Movement and Dance practices in Health Care’, Edge Hill University.
- 2017: Film presentation, PhD research ‘Home Performance’, People Dancing International Symposium, Glasgow.
- 2023: Training-lead for the project Parkinson Dance, Bucharest Romania 2023
- 2022: Online training/supervision for DMP’s in Bucharest, Romania.
- 2021: Training delivery in dance/movement & Somatics for older people, Moving Soma, Cheltenham (3 weekends).
- 2021: Online training in dance/movement for people with Parkinson’s, Frontline Dance, Stoke-On-Trent
- 2020: Training volunteers at Pioneer Projects, North Craven (Arts & Dementia).
- 2023: DCNW research grant for the co-created project Ten Conversations.
- 2014: Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to research Dance and Parkinson’s practice in New York and Oakland, California.
- 2013: Rebecca Skelton Research Award, University of Chichester, to study BMC ‘muscles’ module.
- 2012: PhD fees only studentship, University of Roehampton (Dance).
- 2012: Lisa Ullmann Travelling Fellowship and Stanley Wertheimer Fellowship to attend professional training at ‘Dance for PD’, Mark Morris Dance Group, Brooklyn, New York.
