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Great music drives Dance for PD® classes in New York and around the world. Now, for the first time ever, we've combined all 98 tracks from five albums into one streaming and downloadable collection—great for teaching artists and participants alike.
Music from William Wade and Richard X Bennett, along with contributions from Colin Fowler, includes beautifully-rendered standards and original compositions in a wide range of styles, tempos and moods that serve to inspire a wealth of movement ideas.
Even better, your purchase entitles you to use these tracks without paying additional royalties—even if you are live streaming your class or posting on YouTube.
Purchase this collection today and receive unlimited access to stream or download the four albums. After purchase, you'll receive a download with easy, three-step instructions for accessing the collection.
5 Albums | 98 tracks
Playlist:
Volume 1:
1 Sun Salutation (Beethoven)
2 Sun Salutation faster (Beethoven/Wade)
3 Alternate slow warm up (Traditional)
4 V/torso warm up (Schumann)
5 Arm dance (Williams/Rogers)
6 Foot habanera (Wade)
7 Bourrée/hand dance (Bach)
8 Bourrée/hand dance faster (Bach)
9 Long flow (Brackett)
10 Seated foot warm up (Cohan)
11 Seated tap warm up (Fields/Donovan)
12 Lyrical mirroring (Bach)
13 Spiral and twist adagio (Puccini)
14 Award night (Wade)
15 Pliés (Debussy)
16 Standing tendues (Traditional)
17 Standing tap (Traditional)
18 Moderate across the floor (Gilbert/Sullivan)
19 Broadway combination (Cohan)
20 Broadway combination with drums (Cohan)
21 Moderate circle dance (Williams/Rogers)
22 Reverence (Traditional)
23 Pass the pulse (Pachelbel)
Volume 2
1 Sun Salutation (Gilbert/Sullivan)
2 Sun Salutation longer version (Gilbert/Sullivan)
3 Sunrise Lake (Smetana)
4 Roll and Stack (Waller)
5 Roll and Stack faster version (Waller)
6 Foot warm up (Bizet)
7 Rock Paper Scissors (Faulkner)
8 Rock Paper Scissors alternate version (Bizet)
9 The Hard Nut: Russian Dance (Tchaikovsky)
10 Tap warm up (Sousa)
11 Marble Halls (Bach)
12 Long Flow (Berlin)
13 Jazz across the floor (Rodgers)
14 March across the floor (Bratton)
15 West Side Story: Cool (Bernstein, arr. Wade)
16 Dido and Aeneas: Sailor dance (Purcell)
17 L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: The Ladies’ Dance (Handel)
18 The Hard Nut: Waltz of the Flowers (Tchaikovsky)
19 Love Song Waltzes: Nicht wandle, mein Licht (Brahms)
20 Reverence (Traditional)
Volume 3
1 Sun Salutation (Offenbach)
2 Dig and Swim (Foster)
3 Dig and Swim faster version (Foster)
4 Shooting Star (Traditional)
5 Shooting Star faster (Traditional)
6 Hand and Foot Adagio (Waller)
7 Twist and Bowl accelerating and decelerating version (Von Tilzer)
8 Twist and Bowl accelerating version (Von Tilzer)
9 Faster Foot Warm-Up (Suppe)
10 Jazz Tribute (Joplin)
11 Dido and Aeneas: Oft She Visits (Purcell)
12 Dido and Aeneas: Oft She Visits faster version (Purcell)
13 Little Red Riding Hood (Rossini/Wade)
14 Long Flow Coordination (Ward)
15 Jazz Lunges (Wade)
16 Temps Lié (Grieg, arr. Wade)
17 The Hard Nut: Snow (Tchaikovsky)
18 The Hard Nut: Snow faster version (Tchaikovsky)
19 Gentle Waltz (Friedman)
20 Ragtime walking groove at 76 bpm (Wade)
21 Moderate funk walking groove at 90 bpm (Wade)
22 Cool walking groove at 100 bpm (Wade)
23 Cinematic walking groove at 112 bpm (Wade)
24 Fast funk walking groove at 128 bpm (Wade)
25 Reverence (Bach)
Volume 4
1 Opening improvisation
2 Sun Salutation (sample)
3 Swinging in 3 (sample)
4 Blues pliés
5 Jazzy tap (sample)
6 Jazzy walk
7 Lyrical adagio
8 Coordination tango (sample)
9 Lost Happiness - Mendelssohn (sample)
10 Swings - Moderate
11 Swings - Faster
12 Polka - Moderate - Grand Duo - Lou Harrison
13 Polka - Faster - Grand Duo - Lou Harrison
14 Conversation improvisation
15 Dance-Off
16 Reverence (sample)
17 Stretch
Volume 5
1 Somatic warmup
2 Sun Salutation
3 Body isolations
4 Foot Warmup (Fats Waller)
5 The Argument (Robert Schumann)
6 Modern Combination
7 O'Batala
8 Seated to Standing transition
9 Plies in three styles
10 Walking Duet from L'Allegro (George Frideric Handel)
11 Jazz Tap Combination
12 Panama M'Tombe
13 Bonus/Reverence: Haru No Hana (written in honor of the WPC Kyoto)
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.