I never understood why the dancer should be mute—a dumb rule in my book. I also do not view dance as separate from theater. I am interested in the performative moment as a moment of revelation, of intimacy. whatever can bring me there is fair game.
Joe Goode Performance Group
Dance for Parkinson’s Class
As an affiliate program of Dance for PD, Joe Goode Performance Group teaches a Dance for Parkinson’s class at the Joe Goode Annex. Our classes are based on the innovative Dance for PD program designed by the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson Group. Using this method, professional dancers draw on their unique expertise to help people with Parkinson’s Disease and their caregivers engage sight, sound, touch, thought, and imagination to bring control to their movements. Dancing in chairs, at a barre, or standing, experienced teaching artists will lead participants in an enjoyable blend of modern dance, ballet, tap, jazz, and social dancing. While strengthening, balancing, and moving in rhythm to live music, people with PD also experience the power of dance and music to sharpen attention, inspire, and empower.
Sundays, 12:00-1:15pm
Suggested donation: $15
Registration:
By phone: (415) 285-7377
Or email: [email protected]
This class is presented by the PDSF Network and Joe Goode Performance Group. Read more about the program here.
Home Page quote
In an unfeeling world, to feel something, indeed to craft something is an act of redemption.
Education
I want to liberate the dancer from his/her silence and create a total theater that is rigorously crafted but intimately personal.
Perfomance/education
The body is a political territory, every gesture, every posture is a statement of who this person is in this moment of action or this very public moment of being seen.
jgpg
I want dancing to be about more than just how beautiful and flexible the body is. I want it to serve a more complex vision of our humanity, that we are flailing and absurd and in the process of decay.
to become other than dust
our species drawing lines
individualized, recontextualized, intertwined
to find solace, you ask us to soften
transparent and expressive
we find our mouths open, tongues tied
freedom of guilt spitting out their gaze
not softening, but fluorescent boundaries
finding futures there, in dreams
liberation:
a place we have yet to know
at the point of departure
we traverse the water in search of ourselves
friction between spaces
body based bumping in the dark
we have never known ourselves without you.
Work by: jose e abad, Malia Byrne, & Gabriel Christian
This project is Co-Produced with the Joe Goode Annex.
photo credit to: Aaron Salinas // @peeka.true