Alison Waldman at TEDxGreatMills

Why we should be dancing with our doctors • September 2020  
In this talk, Founder & Lead Facilitator Alison Waldman shares how she re-imagines hospitals as places for common humanity, creativity, and agency. From dances in chemotherapy wings to a surprise duet with a robot, learn how she works with staff, patients, and caregivers in healthcare spaces to incorporate movement into medicine and to enhance community building and compassionate relationships between providers and patients.
Interview with HireEffect 
The Importance of Wellness at Work

March 2019 •  HireEffect, LLC

Alison was interviewed by HireEffect, LLC​ about wellness and sustainability in entrepreneurship, and the core of our business mission. Alison share tips on managing the demands of the modern work day, and her female heroes in honor of Women's History Month.
Movement for MS

January 2019 • Georgetown University Medical Center

Movement for MS is a dance class designed specifically for people living with multiple sclerosis, created in collaboration with the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Department of Neurology. Movement for MS empowers participants to explore their movement potential in fun and creative ways while building community, collaboration, and physical confidence. Alison Waldman is the co-lead foundational teacher ​of this award-winning program.

The Day of Dance at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

December 2017 • Associated Press

Alison Waldman directs and choreographs the annual the Day of Dance at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, a day of integrated, site-specific performance throughout the hospital by professional performers. The first Day of Dance in 2017 was the first of this kind of integrated dance programming in a hospital setting. ​
Related Press: Striking a chord, NIH taps the brain to find how music heals (Associated Press) By Lauren Neergaard, Dec. 19 2017
​Featured in the Boston Herald, New York Daily News, Washington Times, and dozens of additional local and regional news sources ​
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May 2018: Arts and Humanities Program Feature  
​Georgetown Star

​ The May 2018 issue of the Georgetown Star features the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities program's wellness programming and weekly yoga classes at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. ​