Christina Tsoules Soriano (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is the Director of Dance and Associate Provost for Arts and Interdisciplinary Initiatives at Wake Forest University. Christina is the creative force behind “IMPROVment®,” an integrative method of dance that emphasizes physical and mental wellness. Since 2012, she has regularly taught a community dance class to people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners and has been involved in three scientific studies that look at the ways improvisational dance can help mobility and balance. She has received funding from the National Parkinson Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC, and most recently the NIH to conduct a clinical trial, testing her dance method in a community of adults living with Mild Cognitive Impairment and their carepartners. She is also very involved in the annual symposium Wake Forest’s Aging Re-Imagined, which brings together the work of artists, community members and scientists around the topic of Healthy Aging.