Peace About Life: Dancing with Parkinson's

It challenges you on every level and its 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 Parkinsons is its the gift that keeps on taking... I think its great to create beauty through movement...Peace About Life: Dancing with Parkinsons is a collection of uninhibited first-hand accounts of struggling thriving re-defining identity and finding peace while living with Parkinsons disease. Claudine Naganuma artistic director of dNaga Dance Company and certified Dance for PD(R) instructor spent years interviewing dancers living with Parkinsons 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 peoples deeply personal experiences living and dancing with Parkinsons disease. Foreword by David Leventhal. Translated by Takako Hayakawa