Kairos Dance Studio

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Dancing Heart-The Power to Nurture and Heal

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Kairos Dance values our connections to other individuals and organizations.
Our partners include:

Artistic collaborators

• Irv Williams, Jazz Saxophonist
• Jazz by Fosse
• Nothando Zulu, Storyteller
• Carla Vogel, Storyteller
• One Voice Mixed Chorus

Current Dancing Heart Partners

• Amherst H. Wilder Foundation Adult Day Health Services
• Fairview Ebenezer
• NORC
• Struther's Parkinson's Center
• Veterans Administration Adult Day Program - Richfield
• Sholom Home East - Saint Paul

Past Dancing Heart partners

• Minnesota Southwest Center Day Elders
• Volunteers of America
• Walker Methodist Senior Club
• Sojourn Adult Day Services
• Partnership Resources, Inc.

Creative Aging

• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Kairos Dance is listed in the NEA's  “Arts and Aging Resource List” and “Creativity and Aging Best Practices”
• Minnesota Creative Arts and Aging Network (MNCAAN)*
• National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA)
• Center on Aging, Health and Humanities, George Washington University
• Center on Age and Community, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Time Slips, Creative Storytelling Project
• Elders Share the Arts (ESTA)

Arts in Healthcare

• Society for Arts in Healthcare (SAH)*
• Midwest Arts in Healthcare Network (MAIHN)*

National Aging Organizations

• American Society on Aging (ASA) Kairos and The Dancing Heart are discussed in the Spring 2006 issue the ASA journal, "Generations".  View Anne Basting's article, "Arts in Dementia Care"
• National Council on Aging (NCOA)
• Gerontological Society of America  (GSA)*

Local Aging Organizations

• Care Providers of Minnesota  *
  
• Vital Aging Network (VAN) *
• Alzhiemer's Association
• Care Options Network *

 
* Kairos is a current member

Community Arts

• Community Arts Network
• Young Audiences of Minnesota
• National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts

 

Foundations and Grants

We are deeply grateful for the support of our funders and volunteers.  Without them, we would be unable to continue our valuable work.

• Beim Foundation
• The George Family Foundation
• John Larsen Foundation
• Mardag Foundation
• MetLife Foundation Creative Aging Program
• Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
• Minnesota State Arts Board
• Target Foundation

and many, many individual contributors and volunteers!