Dance with Parkinson – Open Dance Workshop & Keynote at 3 Tage Frei Festival

As part of the "3 Tage Frei"-Festival the Shibui Collective opens its workshop Dance with Parkinson to people with Parkinson’s, their relatives, professional dance practitioners of all genres, and anyone interested. The open workshop invites participants to experience dance as an artistic and social practice and to make bodily diversity visible as a creative resource.

The open format is preceded by a four-part, protected movement process with people with Parkinson’s from Stuttgart. Within this framework, the collective explores together with the participants how memory and imagination can generate movement impulses, release emotions, and open up individual potentials for expression. The concluding workshop situates these experiences within a broader context, creating space for encounter, exchange, and shared movement within the festival.

The work is based on improvisation, body awareness, and open movement tasks. The aim is an accessible, pressure-free structure that enables active participation—beyond therapy, performance logic, or the reproduction of professional dance forms. Movement emerges as personal, situational, and authentic.

The project is led by Emi Miyoshi and Anna Kempin, who draw on many years of experience in participatory dance practice as well as on methods from Dance Well – Dance and Parkinson. Following the workshop, the collective will offer a short keynote presentation, providing insights into its experiences and sharing impulses for participants’ own initiatives at the intersection of dance, community work, and social engagement.