Co-creating knowledge dialogically: patients and relatives talk about dancing with Parkinson’s

How can we co-create, communicate and spread experience-based knowledge about the therapeutic use of dance for citizens with Parkinson’s disease? What potentials and challengesarise in the tensions in dialogue in person-centred, participatory research and research communication? In the project, these questions will be addressed through a collaborative research design based on a theoretical framework building on dialogic communication theory. In a series of workshops using a range of creative, collaborative methods, citizens with Parkinson’s disease and their relatives will participate in the co-creation of knowledge about bodily, sensual and aesthetic experiences with Parkinson’s dance courses. The co-created knowledge will be disseminated through graphic narratives.  With respect to practice, one aim is to further the involvement of patients in treatment, research and research dissemination in relation to Parkinson’s disease and other diseases. Another aim is to further develop dance as a form of creative arts therapy in person-centred, collaborative treatment. The project also aims to contribute to research on dialogic communication, patient involvement in person-centred health care, research and research dissemination, and collaborative, qualitative and arts-based research on health including narrative and graphic medicine. The project is a collaboration between Roskilde University, Parkinson Association and Tivoli Ballet School. It will be led by Professor Louise Phillips and Associate Professor Lisbeth Frølunde from the research group in Dialogic Communication, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University.