Ballet Arizona offers free dance classes for Parkinson's patients

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For one hour on Wednesdays and Fridays, dozens of patients with Parkinson's disease practice their plies at Ballet Arizona.

There's a special partnership between Ballet Arizona and the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center to help those struggling with the neurodegenerative disease. FOX 10's Anita Roman reports.April is Parkinson's Awareness Month, and it's a disease that affects more than 10 million people around the world.

For one hour on Wednesdays and Fridays, dozens of Parkinson's patients practice their plies at Ballet Arizona near 29th Street and Washington. Debbie Braganza is the dance instructor. She says her father had Parkinson's for over 20 years, so it's a disease that's all too familiar with her. "We work on balance, we work on stretching, we work on also the cognitive side which is coordination, and just learning different steps and learning different choreography every week," Braganza said.

 

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