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August 25, 2007
Getting Their Groove Back, With Help From the Magic of Dance
By: Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times
David Leventhal, a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group, is teaching a combination from Mr. Morris’s “Three Russian Preludes” to a crammed class of dance students. “Mark made this for Baryshnikov,” he tells them. “Then I danced it. Now you’re the third people to learn it.”
The students laugh. They are not young, not lithe, not professional dancers. Most have Parkinson’s disease; several walk or stand with difficulty. But after watching Mr. Leventhal carefully as they copy his slicing arm movements, the group performs a commendable version of the sequence.
