Our role

Fitzcarraldo Foundation is a research partner in the Dance Well project, together with the Centro aiku – art enterprise culture at the Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari.

Fitzcarraldo is managing the action research activity for the whole duration of the project, as well as the monitoring and evaluation of general impacts, through an approach that combines quantitative, qualitative and partly ethnographic data and methodologies. The research particularly investigates:

• Outcomes for dance artists and dance organisations, particularly in terms of upskilling and the development of new aesthetics, that may change the perceptions of people involved in creating, practising and developing creative processes.;
• Outcomes for participants – with or without Parkinson’s disease – in Dance Well classes, particularly in terms of developing and supporting well-being, both individual and social. The aim here is to try to measure well-being using classifications and metrics that are both representative of and co-constructed by participants;
• What the conditions are that enable well-being, that can be gathered together and systematised, for use in the guidelines and recommendations for disseminating the project.