Mel delivers Flow and Connect for LPM,  along with her other specialist classes for people living with neurological conditions and dementia.

Melanie is a founder member of Dance for Parkinson’s Partnership UK, a voluntary organisation providing opportunities for people with Parkinson’s to dance.

In 2014 she travelled to the USA to meet with leading practitioners in this field. She spent three weeks in California with John Argue, the creator of ‘The Art of Moving’, an innovative style of dance practice for people with Parkinson’s. 

She has developed her own brand of dance classes for people with Parkinson’s, called ‘PD Flow and Connect’. An important element of these classes is exploring a sense of movement flow through weight transition and by slowly building movement momentum during class. 

Melanie has developed one-to-one dance sessions in people’s houses as ‘Home Performance’. 

Through her dance and health business, Conscious Bodies, Melanie also works with people recovering from Stroke or living with Dementia, Muscular Dystrophy and Multiple Sclerosis. She is the lead dance artist at Pioneer Projects in North Yorkshire, where she delivers weekly classes and training whilst working alongside visual artists in projects such as ‘Bridging the Gap’, a three-year Big Lottery-funded programme located in care homes.

Melanie is a member of Dance for Parkinson’s Partnership UK’s advisory group, whose role is to direct the development of high-quality dance classes throughout the UK. Her Fellowship has enabled her to bring new perspectives to the group’s work and to help ensure that a range of practices are available for people with Parkinson’s who want to engage with dance.

Mel has recently completed her PhD at University of Roehampton .