Open Class Information

Virtual Classes on Zoom are FREE for Participants!
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​Classes are inclusive and open free of charge to all Parkinson's dancers and their care partners, family and friends thanks to the generous support of the Norton Neuroscience Institute Resource Center!
Schedule for Zoom Classes

​Classes are ongoing and meet each Tuesday from 1:00 - 2:00 pm

​The location is...your living room!

Join us live or dance along to the recorded classes in your own time
Dance Wise for Parkinson's classes are modeled after the Dance for PD® program, developed in 2001 through a collaboration between the New York based Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson Group. Classes provide a safe, enjoyable and creative environment for participants, their care partners, spouses, partners and friends. In class, teaching artist, Elena Diehl introduces movement from modern and theater dance, ballet, folk dance, tap, improvisation, and choreographic repertory to engage the participants' minds and bodies. Through an enjoyable, empowering approach, students learn to enhance their aesthetic awareness and grace while addressing such PD-specific concerns as balance, flexibility, coordination, gait, social isolation, and depression.
“The fundamentals of dancing and dance training—things like balance, movement sequencing, rhythm, spatial and aesthetic awareness, and dynamic coordination—seem to address many of the things people with Parkinson’s want to work on to maintain a sense of confidence and grace in their movements. Although participants from all over the world tell us they find elements of the class therapeutic, the primary goal of our program is for people to enjoy dance for dancing’s sake in a group setting—and to explore the range of physical, artistic and creative possibilities that are still very much open to them."

—David Leventhal, Dance for PD founding teacher, Brooklyn, NY

Let's Dance Together