I tidskriften JAMA skriver Carrie Butt om projektet Dance for PD - sedan 15 år samarbetar professionella dansare från Mark Morris Dance Group i New York med parkinsonpatienter för att underlätta deras liv och för att bryta sjukdomsstigmat. Dance for PD-kurser finns nu i 16 länder. I Sverige finns de i Halmstad, Jönköping och Malmö.
Dance builds students’ strength, increases their flexibility, improves their balance, and teaches creative movements they can recall and use in their everyday lives, but true to Westheimer’s initial vision, Dance for PD’s primary accomplishment may be to demedicalize their experience of disease. Participants are thought of and referred to as dancers, not patients
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As Dance for PD classes focus on opening up participants to more expansive strategies for managing their degenerative disease, they present the dancers with new possibilities and a
rediscovered sense of freedom.
Carrie Butts artikel "Move your arm like a swan" kan läsas här (prenumeration eller betalning krävs för att läsa hela texten). JAMA Vol. 317 Nr 4, 24 januari 2017.