More than 40 dancers linked to the Parc Sanitari SJD are participating in Five Days to Dance, an inclusive dance show
- Throughout the whole week, users, professionals, volunteers and members of the public have co-created Oasi, an inclusive community show, under the direction of the De Loopers company.
- For the second consecutive year, the Parc is hosting this community project that fights against stigma and uses art as a tool for well-being, expression and social connection
The inclusive dance project Five Days to Dance has returned to the Sant Boi site of the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu for the second consecutive year.
Over five days of intensive work, people cared for in different services of the Parc, professionals, volunteers and members of the public have participated in a collective creation process that aims to build a shared choreography based on diversity, inclusion and community work.
The rehearsals are guided by the dance-theatre company De Loopers, which specialises in participatory and educational artistic projects, led by the dancers Amaya Lubeigt and Wilfried Van Poppel.
More than 40 people linked to different services and programmes of the Parc Sanitari have participated in this second edition: the Sant Jordi Occupational Centre, Sant Carles, the Recupera't unit, the UHEDI and the Torrents d'Art workshops, as well as educators, instructors, volunteers and participants external to the Parc.
All of them form a heterogeneous group that, in just five days, builds a shared stage piece through the body, movement and collective listening.
Five Days to Dance: much more than a show
Five Days to Dance is much more than a stage production. It is a community and destigmatising project that uses art as a tool for wellbeing, expression and social connection. The initiative creates meeting spaces for people with very diverse realities, fostering inclusion and focusing on the creative process over the final result.
In this edition, the show Oasi becomes a metaphor for this shared space of care, respect and coexistence. A meeting place where paths are created, a place of life open to everyone. A fertile space, of peace, of rest. A place to, simply, be. An OASIS of unity, vibrant and moving, full of expressive force and collective emotion.
With this new edition, the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu consolidates Five Days to Dance as one of the institution's most cross-cutting Arts in Health initiatives, aligned with the Torrents d'Art programme. The project has also established itself as one of the most outstanding activities of the Perifèries 2026 programme, along with the Tastets d'ART and the Arts in Health Conference held last week, and which places arts and culture at the centre of the community and healthcare life of the Parc during the first fortnight of May.
