Compañía Nacional de Danza

The Dance for Parkinson’s project is part of Dance for PD, an international initiative created by the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson’s Group more than 20 years ago, which is currently present in more than 300 communities in 80 countries around the world.

On April 8, the National Dance Company and the National Ballet of Spain (INAEM) hosted a new edition of Dance for Parkinson’s Disease. An activity in which, through dance, people affected by this disease explore the relationship with their body, with the space, with their friends and caregivers, outside the scope of care, thus improving their quality of life.
In this edition, the team of CND, directed by Joaquín De Luz, and BNE, directed by Rubén Olmo, collaborated to incorporate a fragment of the Habanera from Carmen into the repertoire of this initiative. Elisabet Biosca, soloist of the National Dance Company, and Inma Salomón, prima ballerina of the National Ballet of Spain, who have performed this work for years, provided participants with contact with a first class choreography.
More than 65 people affected by this neurological disease participated in the project, along with their caregivers, family members and their teachers, Guillermina de Bedoya, Concha Mora Araujo and Paloma Alfonsel , with whom they danced a chotis and a rumba as a warm-up.

In Madrid, Dance for Parkinson’s is a program promoted by the APDCM, in collaboration with local associations of people with Parkinson’s in Móstoles, Leganés, Aranjuez, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona and the City Council of Bollullos de la Mitación (in the Aljarafe area of Seville), as well as the Spanish Parkinson’s Federation. In addition to the value of the artistic encounter itself, this initiative is very beneficial for those who live with the disease and underlines the importance of dance and the professionals who make it possible as a source of social and individual well-being for people with Parkinson’s: “the day I dance, I feel good”.