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Until we are safely able to dance together in person, join Dance Wise for Parkinson's for free live-streamed classes on Zoom every Tuesday afternoon at 1:00pm EST! Click here to register for class! |
As a preventative measure to decrease risk associated with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Dance Wise for Parkinson's has temporarily suspended all in-person classes, through April 19, 2020. |
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Dance Wise for Parkinson’s is pleased to present community dance classes for people with Parkinson's, their care partners, family and friends in Louisville and surrounding communities.
Video courtesy of Dance for PD®/ Mark Morris Dance Group
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Why "Dance for PD"?Why Dance for Parkinson’s Disease (2009) was produced by the Brooklyn Parkinson Group in association with the Mark Morris Dance Group to demonstrate the essential elements of the Dance for PD® classes and investigate why dance classes may be particularly beneficial for people with PD.
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Think Like a DancerParkinson’s disease is a “Movement Disorder” and here, David Leventhal explains why professionally-trained dancers are well placed to help People with Parkinson’s improve their physical and emotional well-being.
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Synapse DanceSynapse Dance (9 mins, dir. Karen Suzuki) explores the neuroscience research being done in the Dancing with Parkinson’s program at Canada’s National Ballet School (NBS), a Dance for PD® partner.
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Why Dance for Parkinson’s Disease? |
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The program’s fundamental working principle is that professionally-trained dancers are movement experts whose knowledge about balance, sequencing, rhythm and aesthetic awareness is useful to persons with PD. In class, teaching artists integrate movement from modern, ballet, tap, folk and social dancing, and choreographic repertory to engage participants’ minds and bodies and create an enjoyable, social environment for artistic exploration. |
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Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church
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