Join a class in Westchester!

Dear Friend,

New: Hastings-on-Hudson

Steffi Nossen Dance Foundation and Hastings-on-Hudson Senior Outreach are partnering to offer a new class for people with Parkinson's and other movement challenges select Thursdays through December. Classes start October 17 and will be led by Julie Worden, from Dance for PD's flagship program in NYC, and Andrea Sherman.

White Plains 

Steffi Nossen School of Dance offers a FREE class each Monday from 1:30-2:30 p.m. at its beautiful studios in White Plains. Classes feature Steffi Nossen's talented faculty, including Wendy Morsberger and Tara LeVoci. Ample, convenient parking is available.

Ossining

Steffi Nossen Dance Foundation offers a FREE weekly class at the Bethany Arts Community in Ossining every Tuesday from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Wendy Morsberger and colleagues create transformative experiences in this beautiful, peaceful place.

Can't get to an in-person class?

Join a free Zoom class in English, Spanish or Mandarin offered through the flagship Dance for PD program in New York City. Classes feature a diverse range of teaching artists and musicians and include standard formats on Mondays and Wednesdays as well as all-standing classes on Mondays and a weekly Sing for PD experience on Fridays.

About Dance for PD

The Mark Morris Dance Group's Dance for PD® program invites people with Parkinson's and their families in more than 400 communities and 30 countries around the globe to experience the joys and benefits of dance while creatively addressing symptom-specific concerns related to balance, cognition, motor skill, depression and physical confidence.

Through its innovative, internationally-replicated in-person and online classes, acclaimed teacher training program, and high quality media resources, Dance for PD's fundamental working principle is that professionally-trained dancers are movement experts whose knowledge about balance, sequencing, rhythm and aesthetic awareness is useful to persons with PD. In class, teaching artists integrate movement from modern, ballet, tap, folkloric, traditional, improvisation, and social dancing, along with choreographic and cultural repertory to engage participants' minds and bodies and create an enjoyable, social environment for artistic exploration.

Dance for PD has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Dance Magazine, The Guardian and hundreds of other publications,and has been honored by several local, national and international awards, including the Parkinson Awareness Award, Alan Bonander Humanitarian Award, and the Sapolin Public Service Award from the New York City Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities.

Evidence from more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific studies from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Italy and Germany serves to underpin the effectiveness and benefits of the Dance for PD teaching practice and suggests that dance provides a range of benefits, including improved walking and short-term mobility, enhanced quality of life and self-efficacy, and improvements in mood and social inclusion among people with Parkinson's.

Dance for PD, which began in 2001 as a collaboration between MMDG and Brooklyn Parkinson Group, leverages technology—online classes, on demand resources, and training and a popular instructional At Home video series—to make the program more available to its diverse and expanding network of constituents around the globe.