The Dancing Wheels Company & School joined forces with hospitals, memory care facilities, facilities for aging adults, and individual caregivers and created Making Memories: A Journey through Dementia (MMJTD) to increase the understanding and recognition of diseases related to dementia and Alzheimer’s.

MMAJTD is an evening-length program composed of two dance works choreographed by Mark Tomasic (“Proof” and “Three 4 Ann”); video documentary featuring interviews of people living with dementia, caregivers, and dementia/Alzheimer’s health care professionals/specialists; plus, audience discussion.

Along with the performance itself, this event will feature live testimonials from the choreographer, resources from local and national memory-care-related organizations displayed in the lobby, and a post-performance talkback with memory-care professionals. 

This project is supported by a National Performance Network (NPN) Artist Engagement Fund, with funding from the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information, visit www.npnweb.org. 

This presentation was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

This engagement of Dancing Wheels is made possible in part through the Special Presenter Initiatives program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.