Healthy Performer

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The Musical Impact project (AHRC 2013-18) has generated new knowledge of the physical and mental demands of music making, providing insight into chronic and acute health problems faced by musicians, as well as existing strategies for promoting health. Healthy Conservatoires was created as a legacy network of Musical Impact and now serves as a mechanism through which knowledge and good practice in the performing arts can be promoted nationally. Driven by a clear need and demand to support performers' health more effectively, we will grow and transform our community through the Healthy Performer project, extending the reach of Musical Impact research across other performing arts, including dance, drama, physical theatre and circus arts, generating innovative action, providing leadership and advocacy, and stimulating new, interdisciplinary exchange of good practice. Healthy Performer is organised into four component work packages. The first will measure the broadened reach of Musical Impact enabled through the follow-on funding. Programmes of network building, asset mapping and systematic evaluation will be undertaken across 12 months. This insight will be used to inform the development of three new film series spanning the remaining three work packages. The first series, State-of-the-art in Performers' Health and Wellbeing, will comprise eight short films summarising key findings from Musical Impact research, helping performing artists, as well as their teachers and conservatoire support staff, understand the changes they can make in their daily practice to promote health and wellbeing. The second series, Who's Who in Performers' Health and Wellbeing, will consist of twelve short films featuring interviews with healthcare specialists who work with and treat performing artists. This will ensure that performers are aware of the range of healthcare options available and empower them to reach out for help and support when they have concerns about their physical or mental health. The third series, The Artist's Voice, will feature interviews with prominent artists from a range of fields speaking about the importance of maintaining health for the sustainability and success of performing careers. They will discuss strategies they have used in their practice, with the goal of pushing against the stigmas of a highly-competitive culture that has a tendency to encourage, if not glorify, pushing the body and mind beyond healthy limits in pursuit of high-level performance at all costs. An interactive web-platform will be created to ensure that these films, as well as key information and examples of good practice collected in the first work package, are easily available to those who can benefit from them long after Healthy Performer concludes. The project will culminate in a summit of key stakeholders and policymakers with the aim of generating innovative action and stimulating new, interdisciplinary exchange of good practice. The Healthy Performer project is led by the Centre for Performance Science, a partnership of the Royal College of Music and Imperial College London. It is supported by the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) and Conservatoires UK (CUK), a national network of 11 specialist institutions offering world-leading training in music, dance, drama, physical theatre and circus arts.