Crossings

Crossings was a piece that featured a group of four PwPs, three volunteers, and ten teenagers that explored themes of isolation from the pandemic. Dance for PD commissioned PDML to create the dance for Mark Morris’s 20th Anniversary Dance Center Showcase.

The people with Parkinson’s used props, like billowing sheets, to amplify the visual effects of their movements, while the teenagers weaved in and out of them.

Watching the PwPs work through the physical challenges of the choreography, gave the teenagers more understanding and empathy for PwPs. And the process of working towards a shared goal brought both groups together in a way that would have never happened otherwise.

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