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Ballet Nacional de España and Compañía Nacional de Danza are celebrating a new edition of Dance for Parkinson's in collaboration with Asociación de Profesionales de la Danza en la Comunidad de Madrid (APDCM) for World Parkinson's Day. The activity is based on Dance for PD, an initiative created by the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson's People's Group more than 20 years ago, and currently present in more than 300 towns and communities around the world.
On April 8th, Ballet Nacional de España and Compañía Nacional de Danza hosted a new edition of Dance for Parkinson's. Through dance, people affected by this disease explore their relationship with their bodies, with space, with friends and caregivers, outside of any caregiving environment, thereby improving their quality of life.
In this edition, the BNE team, led by Rubén Olmo, and the CND, directed by Joaquín De Luz, collaborated to include a fragment of the work Carmen into the repertoire. Inmaculada Salomón, principal dancer of Ballet Nacional de España, and Elisabet Biosca, soloist of the Compañía Nacional de Danza, who have performed this work for years, provided participants with top-class choreography.
65 members of the Móstoles Parkinson's Association participated in the project, along with their caregivers, family members and dance teachers, Guillermina de Bedoya, Concha Mora Araujo and Paloma Alfonsel, with whom they danced a chotis as a warm-up.
In Madrid, Dance for Parkinson's is a programme promoted by the APDCM (Spanish Association of Parkinson's Patients) in collaboration with other associations such as APARKAM, the Parkinson's Association of Móstoles in Móstoles, Leganés, Aranjuez, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, and the Bollullos de la Mitación City Council (in the Aljarafe region of Seville), as well as the Spanish Parkinson's Federation. In addition to the value of the artistic encounters themselves, this initiative underscores the importance of dance beyond simply entertainment: dance and the professionals who make it possible are a source of social and individual wellbeing for people with Parkinson's: "on days when I dance, I feel good."
