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As part of Culture Mill’s ongoing Parkinson’s Performance Project, Elizéon with dancers/choreographers Annie Dwyer and Clint Lutes will create the forthcoming American Dance Festival commission for 2027, Anatomy of Care. Anatomy of Care is a multigenerational, cross-sector dance project exploring the poetics of embodied care. Developed with individuals living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), professional dancers, and researchers, the work honors the ever-changing body through imagination and creativity. Commissioned by ADF (Durham) and created in partnership with DaPoPa (Paris), Anatomy of Care will be created through labs, residencies, and rehearsals that center the voices and experiences of people living with PD. At its core, Anatomy of Care reclaims live performance and embodied creative processes as a vital practice for individuals living with PD: to see and be seen, to touch and be touched, to move and be moved.
Anatomy of Care is a Culture Mill production commissioned by the American Dance Festival for 2027. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Duke Health.