The Arts and Older Adults

Amanda Benn

Dance

My niche is my passion for dance and mobility. I have a great compassion for elders. With the life they have lived they have the courage to continue moving. As elders wake up everyday to face the reality of aches and pains from lack of movement, I’m here to bring life back. I see it in their eyes when I put music on and that creates an unmatched energy that follows us all everywhere we go.

Sample workshop:

In my workshops, we move and groove to many genres of music, remembering/learning the traditions and purpose of movement. Learning new stretches and routines that can be practiced outside of class to keep fit and healthy.

Dance therapy. Many elders suffer from stress whether mind, body or soul. In our sessions we call out our fears or concerns using 1 word or phrase and with movement release it from our bodies enabling us to conquer that fear and destress.

Materials:

Space to move, chairs, speaker

Available for:

In-person workshops, On-line workshops

Language(s) of facilitation:

English

Contact:

Info@kijanibalance.com

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.

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