Centre for the Arts in Human Development

PEM enjoys a longstanding research collaboration with Concordia University’s Centre for the Arts in Human Development (CAHD). The Centre has worked with colleagues to promote constructive exchange between the academic and applied perspectives on Parkinson’s. With help from PEM participants, researchers at Concordia and McGill universities investigated the effects of improvisational dance on those living with Parkinson’s disease.

Over the past 15 years, PEM teachers have participated in numerous academic presentations and several research projects on dance movement and the LSVT BIG method in Canada and around the world. Among the most recent are:

2020	Effects of Improvisational Dance Movement Therapy on Balance and Cognition in Parkinson’s Disease.
2022	A research project on art-movement sessions offered at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for people living with Parkinson’s disease.
2022	International Panel: The Immigrant Experience of Dance/Movement Therapists.