Dance for PD®, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange
in association with Zoellner Arts Center, Choreographers on Campus,
PA Partners for the Arts and Lehigh Valley Arts Council,
present
A Dance for PD®
Introductory Workshop
for dancers, dance teachers, students, therapists, and allied health professionals
Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26, 2016
Zoellner Arts Center, room 121, Bethlehem, PA
We invite you to apply at the link below!
Foundation for Community Dance (UK), Photographer: Rachel Cherry
► Learn best practices and methods from one of the program’s founding teachers. ► Hone your teaching skills. ► Deepen your knowledge with our specially-created modules and acclaimed interactive sessions. ► Participate in an actual Dance for Parkinson's class with members of the local Parkinson's community.
"A dynamic workshop and a fabulous life experience. I could not have been more pleased with time well spent.”—Dance for PD workshop trainee
"Dance for PD® is a hands-down success. It’s one of the most important programs for Parkinson’s disease in the country."—Mary Ellen Thibodeau, RN
RI Chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Association
About Dance for PD® workshops and seminars
Since 2007, more than 1200 people from 30 states and 15 countries have participated in Dance for PD® (Parkinson's Disease) workshops and seminars, designed and produced by the Mark Morris Dance Group and Brooklyn Parkinson Group.
Our educational programs are designed to enrich, inform and inspire a diverse group of individuals who want to learn about the unique approach of this internationally acclaimed community arts & health program from its original creators.
This workshop
Our introductory workshop is specially designed to help dance teachers adapt your expertise to work effectively and comfortably with the Parkinson’s population under the guidelines and methodology of the Dance for PD® program. You'll cover special modules that focus on class structure, pedagogy and exercise design, and participate in a practicum class to develop class content and teaching techniques with founding teachers and other trainees, in addition to covering general modules about safety and working with Parkinson’s participants. Please click here for more information.
Although this workshop is specifically geared toward dance teachers, we welcome a diverse group of individuals who may be interested in the workshop for Educational & Professional Enrichment (EPE) In this workshop, you will attend as Active Auditors, participating in all group discussions and modules, while observing the teaching practicum on Day 2. The EPE program is designed to provide a comprehensive and intimate look at core components of the Dance for PD® program so that a wide variety of individuals without dance training or dance teaching experience can learn about our methods and benefit from our resources.
Our introductory workshops are non-certifying. Attendance at one of our introductory workshops is a prerequisite to qualify for our Dance Teacher certification program.
Time and location
The workshop will take place on Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26, 2016 at the Zoellner Arts Center, Room 121, 420 E Packer Ave, Bethlehem, PA 18015.
Schedule
Hourly schedule subject to change
Saturday, June 25
9:00a-10:00 Introduction--Why Dance for PD?
10:00-11:00 Parkinson's Overview
11:00-12:00 Class structure/risk assessment/safety
12:00p-1:00 Balance and freezing workshop
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Dance for PD community class
3:30-4:15 Community discussion
4:30-5:00 Creating content Introduction
5:00-6:00 Special Film screening: Capturing Grace (2014, David Iverson)
Sunday, June 26
9:00a-12:00 Creating content Part 2
12:00-1:00 Lunch
2:00-5:00 Teaching Practicum
Tuition
$100
Tuition includes:
* all printed materials and sessions
* a one-year Dance for PD® program membership with special access to continuing education materials and tools (a US $45 value), and access to our international teachers' listserv.
You may also add any of the Dance for PD At Home instructional DVDs or companion music CDs to your order when you check out.
Local off-site lunch options are available (5-10 minute) walk, or you can bring your own lunch.
No payment is required to apply. Please click below to complete our application. We will notify you upon acceptance into the workshop and will include final registration and payment information at that time.
Hotel Bethlehem, A Historic Hotel of America
Accommodations
Please click here for a list of local accommodations.
Questions?
For questions about eligibility or workshop content, please email david@danceforpd.org.
Foundation for Community Dance (UK), Photographer: Rachel Cherry
Workshop Reviews
"Extremely well coordinated, very respectful and appropriate content for a broad range of learners!"
—2012 workshop attendee
"This workshop was completely satisfying, both on personal and professional levels. I thoroughly enjoyed each day's activities and the way in which [the trainer] conducted the discussions and experientials. His teaching ability is outstanding, along with his understanding of group process...I feel uplifted and inspired by all I witnessed..."
—2012 Trainee
"My staff reported to me that this was the only training they had ever received in movement/exercise other than cursory information during nursing assistant or nursing training. They were so excited to start using the tools immediately and have other staff to partner with for spontaneous play with each other and the residents."
—2012 workshop attendee and assisted living facility senior manager
"I learned more than I could have ever imagined and I love to dance more than I ever imagined. I have already utilized some of your ideas into my treatment approaches with my patients and they have worked GREAT!"—2011 participant and DPT
Facilitator for this workshop
David Leventhal is a founding teacher and Program Director for Dance for PD®, a collaborative program of the Mark Morris Dance Group and Brooklyn Parkinson Group that has now been used as a model for classes in more than 100 communities in 14 countries. He leads classes for people with Parkinson's disease around the world and trains other teachers in the Dance for PD® approach. Since 2007, he has trained more than 600 teachers in the Dance for PD® approach in 25 cities around the world. He's co-produced three volumes of a successful At Home DVD series for the program and has been instrumental in initiating innovative projects involving live streaming and a dance-based Google Glass App for people with Parkinson's. Along with Olie Westheimer, he is the co-recipient of the 2013 Alan Bonander Humanitarian Award from the Parkinson's Unity Walk. He has written about dance and Parkinson's for such publications as Dance Gazette and Room 217, and has a chapters about the program in two recently published books: Moving Ideas: Multimodal Learning in Communities and Schools (Peter Lang), and Creating Dance: A Traveler's Guide (Hampton Press). He is in demand as a speaker at international conferences and symposiums, and has spoken about the intersection of dance, Parkinson's and healthcare at University of Michigan, Stanford, Brown University, Rutgers and Columbia University. As a dancer, he performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group from 1997-2011, appearing in principal roles in Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, on Motifs of Shakespeare. He received a 2010 Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award) for his performing career with Mark Morris. He graduated from Brown University with honors in English Literature.
Funded in part by Choreographers on Campus, a Lafayette College initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
About Dance for PD®
Dance for PD® offers dance classes for people with Parkinson’s disease in Brooklyn, New York and, through our network of partners and associates, in more than 100 other communities around the world. In Dance for PD® classes, participants are empowered to explore movement and music in ways that are refreshing, enjoyable, stimulating and creative. An on-going collaboration between the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson Group, the Dance for PD® program also provides teacher training and nurtures relationships among other organizations so that classes based on our model are widely available. The Dance for PD® method has been presented at the International Congress for Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders in Berlin (2005), the World Parkinson Congress in Washington, D.C. (2006) and at Neuroscience 2008 in Washington D.C. The program was recognized as a model program at the Society for the Arts in Healthcare’s annual conference (2010). The World Parkinson Congresses in Glasgow (2010) and Montreal (2013) included Dance for PD demonstration classes, and the program was presented two years in a row at the Parkinson's Unity Walk in Central Park. Features about the program have appeared on PBS NewsHour, NPR, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, and Reuters, and in The New York Times and USA Today, among others.
