World Dance for Parkinson’s Day sees 23 dance organisations and particular person educating artists from 16 nations providing courses for folks with Parkinson’s all through April, in honor of Parkinson’s Awareness Month and International Dance Day.
Dance is scientifically confirmed to assist individuals who endure from Parkinson’s, with dance courses and packages providing extra than simply classes – in addition they present social, emotional, and inventive experiences that improve lives of the dance college students and their households.
Jody White Van de Klippe, Program Director for Hamilton City Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s and dance pupil Stan Tick speak about how dance courses are remodeling lives for folks with Parkinson’s.
Listen to Stan speak about his analysis and the impacts of the illness earlier than he found Dance for Parkinson’s in his residence city in Canada. Stan’s private journey and expertise of the constructive advantages of dance is inspiring and he’s crammed with sensible phrases of encouragement for anybody who resides with Parkinson’s.
Jody tells us about how World Dance for Parkinson’s Day has grown and brings collectively a world community of analysis, dance artists and organisations to make lives higher via dance.
Companies concerned embrace Mark Morris Dance Group, who based Dance for PD®, and who as Jody says “without their pioneering spirit and efforts, the global expansion of dance based programming for people who have Parkinson’s disease would not exist”; Dutch National Ballet, English National Ballet, Hamilton City Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, Canada’s National Ballet School, Houston Ballet, Queensland Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Skånes Dansteater and lots of extra.
Learn extra about World Dance for Parkinson’s Day and discover dance courses, watch documentaries and discover various packages close to you in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Portugal, Israel, India, England, Malta, Scotland, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States.
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