Monica Gillette / Mia Habib (2014)

BrainDance is a unique project between choreographers, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers and people with Parkinson’s disease. The project is an initiative of the cluster of excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools of the University of Freiburg and Theater Freiburg. At the core of the project is the interest to relate the expertise of dance knowledge and choreographic research to the research and questioning processes occurring now in the scientific and philosophical fields around movement disorders. Through bringing together the participants from each field as well as people with Parkinson’s, there will be an exploration of the different facets of human movement, and what it means to lose control over it.