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Peace About Life: Dancing with Parkinson's

Peace About Life: Dancing with Parkinson's - Paperback

by Claudine Naganuma
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Availability:In StockContributor:Claudine Naganuma, David Leventhal (Foreword by), Kelly Meadow (Editor)Publish date:2019-05-30Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Claudine NaganumaISBN-13:9780578511689ISBN-10:578511681UPC:9780578511689Book Category:Health & Fitness, Medical, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Exercise, Neurology, DanceBook Topic:DanceSize:8.50 x 8.50 x 0.37 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SC68J4X3JS

It challenges you on every level, and it's always waiting around the corner with another punch...

It is just so much easier to say "I love you" to people...

I mean the grim joke of Parkinson's is it's the gift that keeps on taking...

I think it's great to create beauty through movement...

Peace About Life: Dancing with Parkinson's is a collection of uninhibited, first-hand accounts of struggling, thriving, re-defining identity, and finding peace while living with Parkinson's disease. Claudine Naganuma, artistic director of dNaga Dance Company and certified Dance for PD(R) instructor, spent years interviewing dancers living with Parkinson's disease, as well as some of their neurologists. The interviews were then taken into the studio to inspire and serve as audio for dance pieces. This book is a bilingual compilation of the interviews and poetry in English and Japanese, arranged around themes that arose during the interview process over time, such as diagnosis; coming out to friends and family; shifting identity; management of symptoms through medication; communicating with doctors; dancing; and finding peace while living with PD. Anyone who picks up this immersive book will gain insight into people's deeply personal experiences living and dancing with Parkinson's disease. Foreword by David Leventhal. Translated by Takako Hayakawa

Language:EnglishPublisher:Claudine NaganumaISBN-13:9780578511689ISBN-10:578511681UPC:9780578511689Book Category:Health & Fitness, Medical, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Exercise, Neurology, DanceBook Topic:DanceSize:8.50 x 8.50 x 0.37 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SC68J4X3JS
Naganuma, Claudine: - Claudine Naganuma has been the Artistic Director of dNaga since its inception in 2001. After receiving her MFA in Dance from Mills College she served as the Artistic Director of Asian American Dance Performances and was a founding board member of the SF Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center. She was an international exchange artist between the Hong Kong Fringe Club and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and received a young presenter's award from Jacob's Pillow. She is currently the Director of Danspace, in Oakland, California and is the founder of the GIRL Project, a free art and empowerment workshop for girls living in East Oakland. Naganuma's choreography was part of Dave Iverson's documentary about dance and Parkinson's called Capturing Grace, and she is a certified Dance for PD(R) instructor.
Publisher: Claudine Naganuma

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Claudine Naganuma, David Leventhal (Foreword by), Kelly Meadow (Editor)

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Claudine Naganuma

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