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Dance for PD

North Carolina Dance Theatre is offering community dance classes for people with Parkinson’s disease. Classes take place at the Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride Center for Dance. Dance Theatre is partnering with the Parkinson Association of the Carolinas and Carolinas Medical Center to offer these community classes.

About Dance for PD®
Dance for PD® started in 2001 in Brooklyn as a collaboration between the Mark Morris Dance Group and Brooklyn Parkinson Group. The Dance for PD® teaching method is built on a fundamental premise: professionally-trained dancers are movement experts whose knowledge is useful to persons with PD. Dancers know all about stretching and strengthening muscles, and about balance and rhythm. Most importantly, dancers know about the power of dance to concentrate mind, body, and emotion on movement; they use their thoughts, imagination, eyes, ears, and touch to control their bodies.

The dance class is an aesthetic experience that focuses on developing artistry and grace while addressing such PD-specific concerns as balance, flexibility, coordination, gait, social isolation and depression.

Sessions
The first of three six-week dance class sessions is October 31 thru December 5, 2011, from 11 AM– 12:15 PM at NC Dance Theatre. Additional class sessions will be offered in early February and late April.

Dance for PD teaching artists in Charlotte may integrate movement from ballet, modern dance, folk dance, tap, improvisation, and choreographic repertory to engage the participants' minds and bodies and create an enjoyable social environment that emphasizes dancing for dancing's sake. Participants will be empowered to explore movement and music in an enjoyable, stimulating and creative setting!

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Next Dance for PD Session at NC Dance Theatre
April 16 – May 21, 2012
Mondays, 11 AM – 12:15 PM

To Register for Classes
Contact Lisa Van Rossum at 704.248.3722.