Perceptual Motion, Inc. has worked with senior citizens since 1985. PMI brings the rich and varied world of dance to senior citizens in retirement centers, nursing homes and community centers. We give them opportunities to experience dance as both audience and participant. Performances for elders are designed to enhance their lives, their health, and their well being.

Our combination of audience participation and performance connects the older adult audience to the performers in a very personal way. Our professional elder dancers are role models and inspiration to audiences everywhere. Our activities applaud senior citizens as vital and active people whom the company respects and enjoys.

• Inspire, educate, entertain and honor our elder audiences.
• Give professional elder dancers empowered roles in performances.
• Provide interactive activities and dance performances to a mixture of ethnic and economic groups within the senior citizen community.
• Encourage physical and verbal interaction among audience members and between professional artists and elders.
• Provide elders with high quality professional dance performances.

We have two elder dancers. These talented and lively women, both of whom have performed most of their lives, contribute greatly to our programs for older adults as inspiration and informational sources for audiences, as well as the younger company dancers. Our younger dancers are technically proficient and professional, and are experienced with working with elders.

The Artful Dance Project is a series of dance and visual arts workshops at retirement centers. Each site receives workshops that combine dance, visual art, and song. The culmination of the project at each site is a performance for family and friends consisting of PMI dancers, residents, and staff dancing, singing and moving together interspersed with brief anecdotes spoken and expressed through movement. Artwork created in the visual arts component is incorporated into the performance.