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This online course brings together the complete content of Dance for PD's 2024 Advanced Training and Professional Development Workshop, originally presented over three immersive days at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Whether you participated in the live event and are revisiting the material, or are joining us for the first time online, this course offers an opportunity to deepen your practice through thoughtful reflection, practical exploration, and inspiring conversations with leaders in the field.
Designed for experienced Dance for PD teachers, this course invites you to refine your teaching, challenge familiar assumptions, and expand your creative and pedagogical toolkit. Rather than focusing solely on what we teach, these sessions encourage us to examine how and why we teach, continually returning to the artistic values that define Dance for PD.
Across the course, you'll explore topics including: Revisiting core Dance for PD principles through a fresh and critical lens:
Presenters include Dr. Connie Tomaino, Pat Hall, David Leventhal, Julie Worden, Michelle Amador, Dr. Rebecca Barnstaple, Claudia Rahardjanoto, and Mor Mendel.
From Seoul to Sydney, Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro, people with Parkinson’s and their families are experiencing the joys and benefits of dance thanks to Dance for PD®, a program of the Mark Morris Dance Group. Strong global demand has ignited program initiatives that deliver rigorous teacher training in seven languages and on six continents as well as an instructional media and digital streaming portfolio available to anyone with an internet connection or DVD player. Our 10 New York flagship programs embrace residents in all five boroughs and reach an ever-widening demographic that includes people under 60 with early onset Parkinson’s. The program collaborates with an enviable range of such academic, artistic and medical partners as Lincoln Center, Kaiser Permanente, Canada’s National Ballet School and Harvard Medical School. Recommended by medical professionals around the world, Dance for PD® plays a critical role in promoting opportunities for people with Parkinson’s to find empowerment, dignity and community through a creative, artistic and musical approach to living well.
“In the consultation room, I often get on mysoap box and give a little lecture about the importance of physical activity,social interaction, mental stimulation...and Dance for PD gives all three of those.