Free dance and movement course for people living with Parkinson's and their companions, inspired by museum artefacts, led by Filipa Pereira-Stubbs.
Museum Encounters is a six-session dance and movement course for people living with Parkinson's and their companions, running this autumn at Cambridge Junction. It's led by dance for health artist Filipa Pereira-Stubbs, and the whole thing is built around the collections of the University of Cambridge Museums.
Each session starts with a look at museum objects and the stories they carry, which then open up into a creative dance and movement session. There are refreshments and a chance to look closely at the pieces, and the work is both chair-based and standing, so you can do as much or as little as you feel up to. You don't need any previous dance experience to take part, and companions are welcome to join in too.
It's a bit of a rarity: it's billed as the only initiative of its kind in the UK, and one of only a handful worldwide, to invite people living with Parkinson's to take part in dance sessions inspired directly by museum artefacts. The course was developed in consultation with the Cambridge branch of Parkinson's UK and sits within the wider social prescribing movement — that NHS personalised care approach that refers people to non-medical activities. It grew out of Dance with the Museum, which has worked with older adults and people with long-term health conditions since 2017, and it draws on the support of Cambridge neuroscientists Professor Roger Barker and Professor James Rowe.
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The sessions run on Friday 9 and 23 October, 13 and 20 November, and 4 and 18 December 2026, from 10:30am to 12:00pm at J3, Cambridge Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge, CB1 7GX. It's free to take part.
