For more than two decades, innovative program has focused on ‘what people with Parkinson’s can do, not what they can’t do.’

“[It] makes you feel different than going into a hospital,” Carol Enseki shares, talking about the experience of participating in Dance for PD, a program led by professional dance teachers in prestigious dance studios such as The Juilliard School and Houston Ballet Academy. Enseki was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2000 and has been participating with Dance for PD at the original Mark Morris Dance Center since 2010.

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