Program Director
Dance for PD @ Mark Morris Dance Group
Brooklyn, NY, United States
David Leventhal is a dancer, teaching artist, and Program Director for the Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dance for PD® program. Internationally recognized for advancing dance as a therapeutic tool for people with Parkinson’s, he has trained and mentored more than 2,500 teaching artists in 30 countries, co-produced five volumes of Dance for PD instructional videos, and co-developed Moving Through Glass, a Google Glass-based prototype to assist with balance and gait. The dance-based training course he co-designed has been recognized as a Parkinson's Foundation Accredited Exercise Education Program. His honors include the Alan Bonander Humanitarian Award, Martha Hill Mid-Career Artist Award, IADMS Pioneer Dance Educator Award, and the 2016 World Parkinson's Congress Award for Distinguished Contribution. He was included in the 2023 Art Desk 100, comprising editors’ favorite creators, thinkers and voices who evangelize for a better world. Leventhal has contributed chapters about his work to four books, including a recent contribution to Renée Fleming's Music and Mind, and teaches a dance-based elective in Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine curriculum. He serves on the boards of the Davis Phinney Foundation and Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation. As a dancer, he performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group from 1997-2011, appearing in principal roles in some of Mark Morris' most celebrated works and receiving a 2010 Bessie Award for his performance career. He graduated with honors from Brown University.
Monday, October 27, 2025
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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