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March 12, 2020

taking care of our community

To ensure the safety of our dancers and do our part for community health and well-being, Art as Action will be suspending in-person Reconnect with your Body classes until we feel it is safe to return.  In times of turbulence where anxiety and fear are impossible to escape, dance provides us with an outlet to express […]

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April 9, 2018

Dance for Parkinson’s: More than just Exercise (Davis Phinney Foundation blog post)

The mission of the Davis Phinney Foundation is to help people with Parkinson’s live well today. The Foundation recognizes how much dance can add to that quality of life and asked Reconnect instructor Sarah Leversee to contribute to their blog for Parkinson’s Awareness Month in April, with photos of the Reconnect dancers by Scott Dressel-Martin.

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ARVADA, CO - JANUARY:  Karen Talcot, second from right, takes part in a Reconnect with your Body dance class at APEX Community Recreation Center on January 24, 2018 in Arvada, Colorado. Talcot, who has had Parkinson's for seven years takes several exercise classes a week including the Reconnect With Your Body class which is every Tuesday afternoon. This is a dance class that emphasizes a lot of rhythmic movement. The University of Colorado produced new research that says hard, physical exercise can stall the onset of Parkinson's Disease. Treadmills, fast walking, no-contact boxing and dancing are just some of the exercises people can use to stave off Parkinson's disease.  The class is taught by Sarah Leversee. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
February 14, 2018

Parkinson’s disease could be helped with exercise, study says (Denver Post article)

It doesn’t take long after she begins gliding across the dance floor that Karen Talcott forgets she has Parkinson’s disease. Her physical symptoms, including stiffness, pain and tremors on the right side of her body, quickly evaporate once she focuses on the music in her almost daily dance classes. She also breaks other shackles brought on by Parkinson’s. “The dancing also helps with fear, anxiety and depression,” Talcott said. “It’s the best medicine ever for this thing.”

New research led by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Northwestern Medicine appears to back her claim. They found that high-intensity exercise three times a week is not only safe for people with early-stage Parkinson’s disease, it also decreases the worsening of motor symptoms.

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May 1, 2017

DANCE OF JOY AND GRATITUDE!

During the month of April, we successfully raised $6000 for Reconnect  – THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who contributed. “so glad we made it!” (this clip comes from our Reconnect Community Class on April 30)

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April 28, 2017

the voices of Reconnect

The Reconnect with your Body program empowers participants to discover new ways to move by teaching how to think like a dancer, connect with your breath and find radical compassion for often ailing body parts. Click the links below to hear the voices of Reconnect dancers.

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September 6, 2016

RECONNECT FEATURED IN PARKINSON VOICE

Art as Action Artistic Director and Reconnect instructor Sarah Leversee was invited to write an article for the Parkinson Voice, a quarterly publication of Parkinson Association of the Rockies.  Here is the article:

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Art as Action was founded in 2002 to be a collaborative collective of Artivists— which we define as champions and ambassadors of the communal, universal, and healing language of art. Artivism emboldens the distinct, rare creativity deep within each individual.

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