Parkinson’s Programs
Offering weekly, cost-free movement classes to the PD community and their caregivers.
ADF Project Dance
Project Dance is an outreach program designed to expose the Triangle community to dance.
Experience Dance
ADF distributes complimentary performance tickets to nonprofit organizations.
ADF Project Dance
Developed in 1998 in collaboration with the Durham Parks and Recreation Department, ADF Project Dance is an outreach program designed to expose the Triangle community to dance. Over the years, ADF Project Dance has worked with community partners such as libraries, public school systems, senior centers, children’s museums, Duke Hospital, community centers, as well as the Durham Parks and Recreation Department. ADF Project Dance provides master classes with professional teaching artists and guest performers as well as opportunities to attend live dress rehearsals and performances.
Additional support provided by The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts, Susan and Michael Hershfield, and Central Park School for Children.
Valuing the importance of community and education, ADF continues to dedicate time and resources to providing youth the opportunity to explore their full potential through dance. By 2020, ADF’s outreach initiatives included in-school, after-school activities, and workshops throughout the school year and summer. These programs encouraged nearly 6,000 youth to take advantage of the many lifelong benefits a dance education has to offer.
ADF Project Dance is made possible with major support from the
SHS Foundation.
Additional support provided by The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts, Susan and Michael Hershfield, and Central Park School for Children.
2024 ADF Project Dance
We want to work with you and create a program in your school/organization. In our school programs, teaching artists lead 45-minute to 1-hour classes in school and/or after school. And we have dance workshops for the whole family!
For more information about ADF Project Dance, please contact Annabel Lopez, annabellopez@americandancefestival.org
Each January, ADF begins its annual partnership with Central Park School for Children (CPSC) to offer creative movement as an alternative to more traditional physical education classes. Gaspard Louis, Director of ADF Project Dance, leads these classes. In September 2014, students from CPSC performed Dance x 19 as a part of the Gaspard&Dancers annual concert at Duke University’s Reynolds Industries Theater.
Photos of CPSC students working with Gaspard&Dancers (Satsuki Scoville Photography)
Experience Dance
To make the performing arts accessible to as many as possible, ADF’s Experience Dance program distributes complimentary tickets to nonprofit organizations that work with individuals, families, youth, and seniors in need, as well as to individuals where cost is a barrier to attend.
A limited number of complimentary tickets are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please complete our Experience Dance application no later than two weeks prior to the selected performance date(s).
Organizations and individuals who would like to help fund the Experience Dance program are encouraged to contact Heidi Rodeffer at heidir@americandancefestival.org or (919) 684-6402 for more information. Financial support through ticket purchases and charitable donations helps make this program possible.