David Leventhal is a founding teacher and Program Director for Dance for PD®, a program of the Mark Morris Dance Group that has now been used as a model for classes in more than 300 communities in 25 countries. He leads classes for people with Parkinson's disease around the world and trains other teachers in the Dance for PD® approach 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 and designing innovative projects involving live streaming and Moving Through Glass, a dance-based Google Glass App for people with Parkinson's. He received the 2018 Martha Hill Mid-Career Artist Award, the 2016 World Parkinson Congress Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Parkinson's Community and was a co-recipient of the 2013 Alan Bonander Humanitarian Award from the Parkinson's Unity Walk. Leventhal has contributed chapters to Moving Ideas: Multimodal Learning in Communities and Schools (Peter Lang), Creating Dance: A Traveler's Guide (Hampton Press) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy (Bloomsbury). He is in demand as a speaker at international conferences and symposiums, and has spoken about the intersection of dance, Parkinson's and health at the Lincoln Center Global Exchange, Edinburgh International Culture Summit, University of Michigan, Rutgers, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Brown, Stanford, Columbia, Georgetown, Tufts, and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège (Belgium), among others. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Davis Phinney Foundation, and is a member of the Advisory Council for the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Arts & Humanities program. He was a 2016 Dance/USA Institute for Leadership Training mentor. Leventhal designed and currently teaches pioneering dance-based elective courses that are part of the Narrative Medicine curricula at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and the NYU School of Medicine. He's featured in the award-winning 2014 documentary Capturing Grace directed by Dave Iverson. 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. Leventhal 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.

Misty Owens, MFA, is a Dance for PD founding teacher. She danced with the Peggy Spina Tap Company in New York City for 20 years, performing in such venues as Jacob’s Pillow, Town Hall, FIT, The New School and the Spina Loft. While in New York, she taught at Marymount Manhattan College, Long Island University and the Mark Morris Dance Group, where served as Artistic Director of Student Companies I & II. She received honors from the New York City Tap Festival, which named her Teacher of the Year. With her tap company, Fulton Feet Express, she was presented with a proclamation from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, in celebration of their outstanding community service throughout Brooklyn.

Misty is currently living in Dallas, Texas teaching at the University of Texas-Dallas, and leading the Dance for PD®/Movement Disorders program at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. She is Co-Director of the London School of Dance with Gwen Owens. Misty teaches Adaptive Dance classes to memory care seniors in residential facilities.