FAIRFAX, Va., June 25 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:
"Being in class with our participants reminds me of the pure joy of dance," said School of Dance senior Emma Simons of her time interning with Dance for PD(R).
Dance for PD is a movement-based class for people with Parkinson's disease, which offers physical benefits to the participants and helps reduce the social isolation associated with the neurological disease. George Mason University's School of Dance has offered the national program, administered by George Mason arts partner Mark Morris Dance Group, in Northern Virginia since 2021.
When Simons and fellow dance major Asiah Moore interned with Dance for PD, each took a different approach to her work, a...