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Dance for Parkinson’s Disease
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Dance for Parkinson’s Disease
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP, UNITY PARKINSON’S DISEASE SUPPORT GROUP, CARLE CLINIC, DANCE AT ILLINOIS, AND KRANNERT CENTER
MARIANNE JARVI AND KATE KUPER, INSTRUCTORS
BEVERLY HILLMER, ACCOMPANIST

Friday, July 16, 2010, at 10am, and Friday, August 20, 2010, at 10am | Drama Rehearsal Room (Level 2)

In an ongoing collaboration, the Mark Morris Dance Group has worked with the Brooklyn Parkinson Group to blend music and dance into an empowering movement class for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Recognizing that dance—with its integrated stretching of mind, body, and soul—can effectively concentrate a person’s focus, David Leventhal, John Heginbotham, and Misty Owen combined elements of modern dance, ballet, tap, jazz, social dancing, and the company’s original works into a method for patients to use touch, sight, sound, thought, and imagination to control their movements.

Trained in this innovative technique, Marianne Jarvi and Kate Kuper of Dance at Illinois will lead patients, caregivers, and friends through an exploration of dance movements that stretch and strengthen muscles, impart balance, and interject rhythm with the energizing force of live music from Beverly Hillmer.

The Unity Parkinson’s Disease Support Group, Carle Clinic, Dance at Illinois, and Krannert Center join the Mark Morris Dance Group in this enriching and inviting project.

The Drama Rehearsal Room can be reached most directly from the Yellow and Orange parking lots (off Illinois Street). Please note:
• A limited number of metered spaces are located on every level of the underground garage (20 minutes for 25¢).
• Metered spaces are on each street surrounding the Center.
• Spaces marked with the accessibility sign can be found on every level of the underground garage and may be used for free if you display an accessibility hangtag or license plate.
• Any metered space in the underground garage may be used for free if you display an accessibility hangtag or license plate.
• All other spaces in the underground garage are reserved for permit holders, and the Division of Campus Parking and Transportation patrols the lots regularly.