Peace About Life: Dancing with Parkinson's

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

Author: Claudine Naganuma
Publisher: Claudine Naganuma
Published: 05/30/2019
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.37d
ISBN: 9780578511689

About the Author
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.

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