This article takes as a case study Helix Art’s Falling on Your Feet, a dance and health programme for people aged 65 and above, who are living independently in Teesside. It examines how the programme has traced the social, health, and artistic impacts and effects of informal dance training. Methods used to trace impacts include: i) informal conversations between an artist practitioner and the group within a structured social session, ii) informal interviews led by trained assessors, iii) reflections written by the dance practitioners, iv) photography, and v) light touch interventions such as Timed Up and Go (TUG) testing. Impacts have been captured mainly through qualitative and light touch interventions. This paper examines the reasons qualitative and light touch tracking is necessary, and beneficial, both for the participants, practitioners, partner organizations, and funding bodies.

本文以 Helix Art 的 Falling on Your Feet 为例，这是一项针对 65 岁及以上在提赛德独立生活的人的舞蹈和健康计划。它检查了该计划如何追踪非正式舞蹈培训的社会、健康和艺术影响和效果。用于追踪影响的方法包括：i) 艺术家从业者和团体在结构化社交会议中的非正式对话，ii) 由训练有素的评估员领导的非正式采访，iii) 舞蹈从业者撰写的反思，iv) 摄影，以及 v) 灯光触摸干预，例如定时启动 (TUG) 测试。影响主要通过定性和轻微接触干预来捕捉。本文探讨了定性和轻触跟踪是必要的原因，并且对参与者、从业者、