About Dance for PD® workshops

Prerequisite course

All trainees must satisfactorily complete an asynchronous 8-unit online training program before attending the live in-person workshop. The cost of this 8-unit course is included in your registration fee. It is expected that the self-directed course will take 8-10 hours to complete. You'll receive a link to this course when we approve your training application.

Please note: if you have already submitted a training application, please send an email to admin@danceforpd.org to pre-register for this workshop. You do not need to submit a second application.

The Mark Morris Dance Group's Dance for PD® program invites people with Parkinson's and their families in more than 500 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 classes, acclaimed teacher training program, and high quality media resources, Dance for PD​'s fundamental working principle since 2001 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, folk and social dancing, and choreographic 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. Peer-reviewed research from more than 50 published studies suggests that the Dance for PD approach provides a range of benefits, including improved walking and short-term mobility, enhanced quality of life, and self-efficacy, slowing of symptom progression, and improvements in mood and social inclusion among people with Parkinson's. Current research partnerships with York University, New York University/Rockefeller University, Columbia University, and Northeastern University continue to build a strong research basis for the Dance for PD approach.

The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet comprises the Norwegian National Ballet, the Norwegian National Opera, the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, the Norwegian National Opera Chorus, the Norwegian National Opera Children’s Chorus, and the Norwegian National Ballet School. In 2008 the organization moved into its new home, the Oslo Opera House, located in Bjørvika. Since its opening, images of the building’s striking, angular architecture—seemingly rising from the waters of the Oslo Fjord—have become known around the world and are now considered the defining visual signature of the Opera House. This was precisely the intention of the architects, Snøhetta, who envisioned the roof as a publicly accessible platform that would serve as a new civic space in the center of Oslo, while simultaneously creating a new landscape that brings together the natural beauty of the fjord and the life of the city.

The Norwegian Parkinson's Association is a nationwide interest organization for people with Parkinson's disease, their relatives and other interested parties. The organization has approximately 6,500 members, 50 county and local associations, as well as 350 elected representatives, peers and user collaborators.

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