A blast from the past:

Olie Westheimer said “They need to dance”

It was Olie Westheimer from the Brooklyn Parkinson’s group who kidnapped the Mark Morris Dancers and launched the Parkie dance craze and spread it across North America. Few have done as much as Olie in changing the meaning of living with Parkinson’s.
http://parkinsonsdance.blogspot.com/...chapter-2.html

How Jimi Hendrix defeated the sabre-tooth tigers:
http://parkinsonsdance.blogspot.com/...hapter-6a.html

And she sat down at the piano and she played:
Dancers talk about neurology more than neurologists talk about dancing. The neurologists are imbalanced.
http://parkinsonsdance.blogspot.com/...chapter-9.html

In 2006, I was completely unaware of this forum, completely naďve about neurology, and completely unaware that anyone other than myself was using dance as an anti-PD weapon….
Then two things happened:
---a best-selling book said “…Many mental illnesses are now known to undermine the ability to dance or perform rhythmically – schizophrenia and Parkinson’s, to name just two…”
---I discovered a video of a Parkie dancing in his own living room. It was by some sort of Do-It-Yourself citizen scientist, who went by the name “Reverett123”. I googled and found Rick on this forum.
http://parkinsonsdance.blogspot.com/