This paper discusses the significance of the "Dance Workshop" as a collaboration between Sakai City and Kansai University for elderly participants. The "Dance Workshop" consists of "Karada-hogushi" and "Creative Dance". "Karada-hogushi" is an original technique of movement with "voice" releasing "body and mind". The participants were positive about the technique as measured by interviews conducted with some of the elderly participants in the Dance Workshop. The results indicate that the participants changed their sense of self through creative dance experiences. Especially, they recognized changes occurring in their everyday lives and behavior after the dance experiences
