Neighborhood Music School in collaboration with Mark Morris Dance Group's Dance for PD program and The International Festival of Arts & Ideas present

Dancing with Parkinson’s

Community Open House

Masterclass | Film Screening | Panel Discussion

Join us as we welcome esteemed colleagues for an inspiring day of celebration:

Dance masterclass: Teaching artists from Mark Morris Dance Group's Dance for PD® program, including founding teacher and Dance for PD program director David Leventhal, will offer a stimulating, accessible and enjoyable class that includes excerpts from Mark Morris' Pepperland, an homage to the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album.

Short film screening: Home Exercises by Brown University student Sarah Friedland, mentored by Rachel Balaban, Brown lecturer and Dancing with Parkinson’s (DwP) instructor

Panel discussion: Your chance to ask questions of our dance experts and local neurologists

Mark Morris, hailed as “the most influential choreographer alive and indisputably the most musical” (The New York Times), returns to the Arts & Ideas Festival with a new evening-length work Pepperland, celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ landmark Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Created at the request of the City of Liverpool as part of the city’s season-long tribute to the groundbreaking album, Pepperland will feature an original score by Ethan Iverson inspired by the album’s unforgettable songs.

Performances are June 21 and 22 at 8 PM. For tickets, go online or call 203-498-3772.

Dancing with Parkinson's Community Event