Dancing with Parkinson's
This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s disease. Linking aesthetic values to wellbeing, Sara Houston articulates the importance of the dancing experience for those with Parkinson’s, and argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs, and challenges of people living with Parkinson’s who have chosen to dance.

Presenting personal narratives from a study that investigates the experience of people with Parkinson’s who dance, intertwined with the social and political contexts in which the dancers live, this volume examines the personal and systemic issues as well as the attitudes and identities that shape people’s relationship to dance. Taking this new primary research as a starting point, Dancing with Parkinson’s builds an argument for how dance becomes a way of helping people live well with Parkinson’s.
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Dancing with Parkinson's
This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s disease. Linking aesthetic values to wellbeing, Sara Houston articulates the importance of the dancing experience for those with Parkinson’s, and argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs, and challenges of people living with Parkinson’s who have chosen to dance.

Presenting personal narratives from a study that investigates the experience of people with Parkinson’s who dance, intertwined with the social and political contexts in which the dancers live, this volume examines the personal and systemic issues as well as the attitudes and identities that shape people’s relationship to dance. Taking this new primary research as a starting point, Dancing with Parkinson’s builds an argument for how dance becomes a way of helping people live well with Parkinson’s.
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Dancing with Parkinson's

Dancing with Parkinson's

by Sara Houston
Dancing with Parkinson's

Dancing with Parkinson's

by Sara Houston

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This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s disease. Linking aesthetic values to wellbeing, Sara Houston articulates the importance of the dancing experience for those with Parkinson’s, and argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs, and challenges of people living with Parkinson’s who have chosen to dance.

Presenting personal narratives from a study that investigates the experience of people with Parkinson’s who dance, intertwined with the social and political contexts in which the dancers live, this volume examines the personal and systemic issues as well as the attitudes and identities that shape people’s relationship to dance. Taking this new primary research as a starting point, Dancing with Parkinson’s builds an argument for how dance becomes a way of helping people live well with Parkinson’s.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789381207
Publisher: Intellect, Limited
Publication date: 09/23/2019
Edition description: 1
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sara Houston is a principal lecturer in the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton in London. Her interest is in community dance, particularly with those marginalized in society. Her Parkinson’s research won her a Bupa Foundation Vitality for Life Prize in 2011.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

Part 1 Positioning dance with Parkinson's 15

Chapter 1 Parkinson's pathology in a social context 17

Chapter 2 The phenomenon of dance for Parkinson's 31

Chapter 3 What's so special about dancing? 59

Part 2 The value of dancing with Parkinson's 81

Chapter 4 Living well with Parkinson's 83

Chapter 5 Exploring beauty 91

Chapter 6 Interpreting grace 107

Chapter 7 Finding freedom 131

Chapter 8 Understanding agency 149

Epilogue: A beginning 169

Bibliography 173

Index 193

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