This workshop will focus on the positive impact of dance and movement on the progression of Parkinson’s Disease and will provide participants with the basis to work with this population through dance.
As a medical doctor and a dance/movement therapist, Tania Lazuk will share her knowledge and expertise about the second most common age-related neurodegenerative disorder, and she will present research-based benefits and positive effects of specific movements, dance forms and improvisation for people with Parkinson’s Disease. The workshop will include a theoretical presentation, movement experiences and videos.
This event is presented by the National Centre for Dance Therapy and supported by the RBC Foundation. It is dedicated to all the dance professionals and health care professionals who are interested in bringing joy and pleasure through dance and movement to people living with Parkinson’s Disease.
To ensure that the studio capacity is respected, we are only accepting a small number of participants. Please reserve your spot below and, if you cannot make it, let us know in advance, so we can free your space for someone on the waiting list.
Tania Lazuk worked as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in Ukraine for more than 10 years prior to coming to Canada. She has a PhD in Psychiatry and has completed the Alternate Route training in Dance/Movement Therapy offered by the NCDT. She was Scholar-in-Residence in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies at Concordia University from 2019 to 2021. In 2012, Tania began teaching with Parkinson en mouvement, a non-profit organisation which offers dance and singing classes for people living with Parkinson’s Disease, and she was the first to co-teach the “Dancing Parkinson” classes at the NCDT. Together with her Parkinson en mouvement colleagues, she developed a special training program for those who are interested in teaching adapted dance classes for people leaving with PD.
Tania is one of the founding members of the Dance Movement Therapy Association in Canada and board member of The Quebec Alliance of Creative Arts Therapists.
