Music is a great healer. The saying draws confirmation again and again; this time from Ramos Mejia Hospital in Buenos Aires where Parkinson patients loosen muscles
stiffened by neurological disease to the strain of samba.
The Parkinson’s patients unsteadily sway to recover their own lost rhythm. Time is measured in halting, hesitating movements.
Bodies that have ceased to start to recapture old life pattern of normalcy. It is a little at a time, halting steps are taken at fluency.
This is part of a trend of healthcare that recognises therapeutic power of rhythmic movement when combined with standard treatment protocol..Dance is synchronised to movemen.
Music stimulates the. brain’s “reward centres’. Dance activated the sensory and motor circuits.
It helps rewire the. brain..This is already one of the roles that dance play in human lives.
This is an expression of joy and celebration..This is a three-way negotiation between .mind, body and law of physics.
Dance becomes a reminder that illness may reduce a body to a site of failure. But it remains, first and last, an instrument of joy, grace and beauty.
