Movement Laboratory is a creative, artistic movement practice that brings together people with different life experiences and body experiences.
📅 Saturdays, from 3 October 2026 until 13 February 2027, 11:30–12:30
Participation is free of charge for people with Parkinson’s disease and those accompanying them.
Other interested participants are also welcome to join Movement Laboratory. The museum admission ticket is required – 10 eur.
To take part in a session, please register here in advance.
The sessions are specially designed for people with Parkinson’s disease, their family members, relatives and friends, but everyone who would like to explore movement together, take part in a creative process and connect with others is warmly invited to join.
Movement Laboratory is not movement therapy or a therapeutic class. It is an artistically guided practice in which movement becomes a way of being together, collaborating, experimenting and experiencing one’s body in new ways. The sessions include creative and cognitive movement tasks, movement improvisation, as well as balance and coordination exercises.
The movement sessions are led by choreographer Alise Putniņa or Eva Kronberga.
About the Origins of Movement Laboratory
Movement Laboratory was developed as part of the micro-qualification programme “Culture and Health: Managing Cross-Sectoral Initiatives.” The programme was implemented in collaboration between the Latvian Academy of Culture, Rīga Stradiņš University, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, and the Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture.
The programme invites professionals from the cultural, health and social sectors to develop interdisciplinary skills and create practical projects in which culture and the arts are used to promote social inclusion, participation and wellbeing.
Movement Laboratory is one of the pilot projects developed within the programme. It was previously held at the National Library of Latvia as a series of 10 sessions. In practice, these sessions explore how an artistic and participatory process can create new opportunities for people with Parkinson’s disease and those close to them.
The programme was developed with the support of the ERASMUS+ project “Inclusive Wellbeing Through Arts and Culture in the Baltics (WITAC).”