Parsons Dance excels at performing a wide variety of residency and community outreach activities across the nation and around the world each season. Parsons Dance positively impacts children, students and communities through the following activities:
- Master classes in modern, ballet, jazz and technique are offered at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels for pre-professional, professional and recreational dancers;
- Parsons Dance lectures-demonstrations are suitable for all ages (K-12, post-secondary and adult) and include demonstration of repertory and/or elements of production;
- Parsons Dance workshops and seminars focus on a variety of topics that include nutrition, fitness and the art of dance;
- Post-show discussions provide audience members an opportunity to ask questions about Parsons Dance and its repertory;
- A complimentary Parsons Dance Study Guide, designed in collaboration with the Ferst Center for the Arts, serves as an educational dance resource for teachers and students;
and - The New York City Summer Intensive Dance Workshop for pre-professional and professional dancers provides participants a unique opportunity to work and interact with Parsons Dancers while taking classes in contemporary dance, ballet technique and Parsons repertory.
Parsons Dance visited the students of "Associação de Balé e Artes para Cegos Fernanda Bianchini" (Ballet and Arts Association for the Blind Fernanda Bianchini) that was founded 14 years ago. Their work, as well as the method of teaching, began by the initiative of the dancer and physiotherapist Fernanda Coneglian Bianchini. The Association is a non-profit and does not
charge the visual disabled students. The classes are for all ages and they can have ballet, tap, ballroom, modern and belly dance as well as drama and guitar.
Click the link below to view Parsons Dance in Brazil:
http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM836305-7823-BAILARINAS+CEGAS+GANHAM+PRESENTE+DE+DAVID+PARSONS,00.html
