Ballerina Deborah Bull: ‘I’ve found great strength in dancing and singing’ | Donna Ferguson

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The former Royal Ballet principal on her leading role in a major study into how the arts can boost physical and mental health

Early on in her career with the Royal Ballet, the principal ballerina Deborah Bull had the chance to dance in a hospice. And when she saw firsthand the positive impact her performance had on terminally ill people, a simple question began to burn away inside her: why?

It is a question that nearly 40 years later, medical researchers are starting to ask – thanks in part to Bull herself, now a life peer – and one that has the power to revolutionise healthcare in this country. But back in the early 1980s, when Bull was a young, inexperienced dancer, the idea that art could help to heal the nation’s health problems was not deemed worthy of serious academic study.

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