Member Newsflash 4

Brief | Informative | Timely

Attendees at three upcoming conferences will have the opportunity to experience Dance for PD demo classes and hear about the program from founding and established teachers. On February 28, David Leventhal and John Heginbotham will teach four demo classes at the Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia & Parkinson Foundation's Patient Symposium in New York. March 16-17, Rachel Balaban, who has been teaching Dance for Parkinson's classes in Connecticut and Rhode Island for several years, will be presenting the Dance for PD approach at the Festival of the Moving Body at Stony Brook University. And April 21, Misty Owens will lead demo classes at the American Academy of Neurology's Brain Health Fair, part of its Annual Meeting, in New Orleans. This represents Dance for PD's first appearance in New Orleans. Please let us know if you're scheduled to present or teach at an upcoming event so that we can notify contacts in our network.

The Society for the Arts in Healthcare, through the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, offers ArtHealth Solutions consulting grants to assist organizations in developing, re-imagining, or sustaining their arts and health programs. The grants serve a wide variety of organizations, including both healthcare facilities and arts organizations, through a roster of arts in healthcare professionals.
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Check out these items recently posted to the Members' pages.

New Members' Blog Post
David Leventhal begins a conversation about class levels and tracking.

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Resource for teachers in the UK
The UK-based Foundation for Community Dance has created an online resource page for members of the growing network of Parkinson's dance teachers in England and Scotland. This resource is available via our Members' toolkit, or by clicking here.

The Placebo Effect
WNYC New York Public Radio host Leonard Lopate interviews Beryl Lieff Benderly who discusses the placebo effect in the context of Parkinson's disease and other conditions.
Listen via the link on our Members AV pages (under Living with Parkinson's)

What Parkinson’s Teaches Us About the Brain
This article highlights Dr. Jay Alberts’ research into the benefits of forced exercise for people with Parkinson’s, and discusses some theories about why it’s so effective.
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