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Like Yesterday: Movement, Memory, and Wellbeing is a practice-led research project that explores the intricate tapestry of memory, movement, and personal narrative. Its lead researchers (James Hewison and Dr Dorothy Tse) are both based at Edge Hill University, UK and the project's participants will include members of the University of the Third Age (U3A), Aughton and Ormskirk, Lancs.  The project draws on Hewison's research profile and professional expertise in choreography and autobiographical performance, and Tse's work in neuroscience, memory, and ageing.
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Beginning with exploratory workshops and storytelling exercises, Like Yesterday will explore and develop authentic movement responses to the participants' own lived experiences and memories of movement, and of being moved. Movement and memory are, therefore, both the theme and form of the investigation, and are celebrated in this context as affirmations of life, agency, and potency (Chalkin and Wengrower, 2015).

Participants' choreographic solos will be recorded against a soundtrack that utilises their spoken narration of those movement memories, and this material will be the basis of the film work that is the primary project outcome.
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