An interview with Dr Guddi Singh Why Dance Matters Podcast

Dance touches lives beyond performers, so the guests on Why Dance Matters aren’t only professional dancers. Guddi Singh is a paediatrician and BBC broadcaster, and eloquent on the important part the arts can play in healthcare. In a warmly reflective conversation, she explains how, earlier in her career, a Bollywood dance class helped restore joy and purpose to the extreme pressures of a hospital career. She went on to introduce a pioneering dance programme on the children’s ward where she was working, and describes the remarkable effect it had on patients, staff, and on Guddi herself.

About Guddi Singh

Guddi is a paediatric doctor, health campaigner and TV broadcaster based in London. Passionate about social justice and health equity, Guddi has worked around the world, including with the World Health Organization and Health Education England and in resource-poor settings. She is the Secretary for the Paediatrics and Child Health Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and Advocacy Lead for the British Association for Child and Adolescent Health. She is keen to humanise healthcare and experiment with the arts and humanities – including dance – to make this happen. As a broadcaster, Guddi has appeared on BBC2, Channel 4, ITV, Al-Jazeera and Sky News.

Find out more about RAD’s programmes which aim to widen access to dance for all, and promote health and wellbeing:
Silver Swans for over 55s: www.royalacademyofdance.org/silverswans
RADiate, inclusive dance classes for primary school children with additional learning needs: www.royalacademyofdance.org/radiate
Step into Dance, inclusive secondary school dance programme: https://www.royalacademyofdance.org/our-dance-projects/step-into-dance/
Dance for Lifelong Wellbeing: https://www.royalacademyofdance.org/our-dance-projects/dance-for-lifelong-wellbeing/

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