Featuring different worlds of increasing difficulty, each one paints a unique picture and evokes different emotions. So far, most studies have looked at classes that take place once a week or so but the new preprint article seems to suggest that daily classes have a positive effect as well, at least in the short term for their small group of dancers.Dancing Line combines fast-paced gameplay with a carefully selected soundtrack to create an experience like no other. After not dancing for a few weeks or months, the beneficial effects will wear off, so regular movement is key. It’s difficult to tease apart all these different effects, but the bottom line is that dancing helps to reduce and control some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.ĭancing is not a one-off solution, though. And when it comes to dancing together, the cues people receive are not just auditory, but also visual, and even based on touch if they are paired with another dancer. Simply being part of a regular social activity and staying active is helpful for people with Parkinson’s Disease.
That emotional connection is another aspect of dance classes as well. “What is it about the music? Is it beat clarity? Is it the complexity?” One thing she’s found is that familiarity of the music plays an important role, possibly because it’s more motivational to people with Parkinson’s Disease, whose condition often causes them to become emotionally disengaged. In movement therapy for Parkinson’s Disease, that auditory cueing seems to work better when it’s part of a rhythmical piece of music than simply the ticking of a metronome, and that’s another question that Rose has been trying to answer in her research. “External auditory cueing provides a template of when to move,” says Rose. For example, since February, people in England can take monthly classes at London’s Royal Albert Hall with the English National Ballet.īut what is it about rhythm and dance that makes people with Parkinson’s Disease regain their balance and control their movements? It’s all in the music. They work with different dance organisations to provide classes. Many follow the Dance for PD ® model, which was started in 2001 in Brooklyn. Similar principles are at work in dancing, so it’s no surprise that dance classes for people with Parkinson’s Disease are offered around the world. “The bigger the movement, the more beneficial the therapy seems to be.” After learning the rhythms, people move on to bigger instruments and larger movements. “It starts off quite small, with some little hand drums,” says Rose. Rose has studied the effect of rhythm and dancing in people with Parkinson’s Disease for several years and is currently looking at rhythmically guided movement therapy, where people are learning drumming rhythms to help them move more regularly.
Dancing regularly gives people more control of their balance, and makes them less likely to fall. Because their balance and movement are affected, people with Parkinson’s Disease are more likely to fall and hurt themselves, which in turn leads to higher cost of care. “The biggest problem is falling,” says Dawn Rose, a Senior Research Associate at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts in Switzerland.
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