De Kracht Van Dans - Compilatieprogramma
Three short documentaries that powerfully showcase the positive impact dance can have on the participants. All films are introduced by the filmmaker (language: Dutch).
Nederlandse Dansdagen focuses on dance in the Netherlands in all its breadth, impact, and cohesion. One of the important trends in recent years has been the growth in the number of initiatives and activities that focus on the relationship between dance and health. Both in science and in healthcare practice, the health-promoting effects of dance have been convincingly demonstrated. This can involve dance lessons, dance therapy, or dance performances that offer comfort, inspiration, and connection.
Bewogen Bewegen | Barbara Jonckheer, Nienke Elenbaas | Netherlands | 2024 | 6’
Bewogen Bewegen follows a group of 17 young adult women with and after cancer over a period of six months. Under the guidance of former Scapino Ballet dancers Annemarie Labinjo-van der Meulen and Bryndis Ragna Brynjólfsdóttir, they participate in a series of dance workshops and create a final performance together for an audience of family and friends. The documentary emphasizes the powerful connection between movement and mental health, especially for people who have experienced life-changing challenges such as cancer. The viewer sees and feels what it means to be (or have been) seriously ill as a young adult and how practicing
Blijf Dansen In Je Hoofd | Hans Oostrum | Netherlands | 2019 | 23 min
Commissioned by Stichting GeneesKunst, Hans Oostrum spent two years working on this documentary about professional dancer Barbara d’Agostino of De Dutch Don’t Dance Company, who was diagnosed with leukemia in 2014. A powerful and moving story about the positive power of dance and the crucial role it played in her recovery process.
Hematologist Dr. Fenna Heyning, founder of the GeneesKunst Foundation, will give a short introduction, and Barbara D'Agostino, who will dance a new solo in the Sint Janskerk on October 4, will also be present.
Mijn Goede Uur | Peter Langen, Dido Mirck | Netherlands | 2025 | 30’
Mijn Goede Uur is a dance documentary by Peter Franken and Dido Mirck about the power of dance and music for people with Parkinson's disease. It is a film about contrast. About how a day can begin with physical pain, loneliness, and struggle, and then, during dance class, turn into an hour of connection, energy, and zest for life. That's what the dancers call their Good Hour.
René van Helsdingen, a jazz pianist living with Parkinson's, plays a central role in the documentary. To the sounds of his improvised playing, the dancers take a short journey, never knowing where it will begin or end. This good hour brings them imagination, strength, resilience, but above all, togetherness.
"We wanted to show what a day looks like when you live with Parkinson's, from getting up to going to bed. And how dance in the middle of that day brings about a kind of reversal. A moment when they are not patients, but human beings again. Or rather: dancers. We didn't want to tell a sad story, but rather show perseverance. The will to keep dancing, to keep living."
Supported by Sluyterman van Loo, Cultuurfonds Noord-Holland, NHmedia, Vaillant Fonds, Stichting Dansen met Danspark, Hersenstichting, CrowdFunding via VoorDe Kunst. Peter Langen and Dido Mirck will