There are no patients. There are only dancers.

A special Dance on Film in honor of the local Parkinson's Support Group.

It seems like two disparate realms. One occupied by some of the most acclaimed dancers in the world, people who move for a living. The other occupied by people who often struggle to move, people who have Parkinson's disease. This is the story of what happens when those worlds intersect. Capturing Grace follows individuals with Parkinson's as they prepared to stage a first ever dance performance, under the tutelage of two long time dancers at the Mark Morris Dance Group. It's a story about determination, adversity, contending with doubt, the transformative power of art and the strength of the human spirit. This is the story of a remarkable community of dancers who have come together to rediscover the meaning of grace.

For filmmaker Dave Iverson, it's also a personal story. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's eight years ago, the third member of his family to receive that news. A few years after his diagnosis, he and his colleagues at Kikim Media made a film about Parkinson's for the PBS Frontline series called My Father, My Brother and Me . It was during that production that he first learned about the Mark Morris Dance Group's unique partnership with people with Parkinson's from the Brooklyn Parkinson Group. Later, he did a short profile of the program for the PBS NewsHour, but he always felt there was a deeper story to be told.

This is a film about rediscovery, the rediscovery of a lighter step and the sweetness of motion.  And it's a story about a remarkable community of dancers--some professional, some not--but all coming together to move in space...and in doing so, rediscovering grace.  And it is in that rediscovery that each becomes whole.

Read more about the Mark Morris Dance Group and Dance for PD.

Run time: 85 min..

The Dance on Film series is presented by the Bud Werner Memorial Library, Perry-Mansfield and Steamboat Dance Theatre.

About Dance On Film

This Dance On Film series is presented by Bud Werner Memorial Library, Perry-Mansfield and Steamboat Dance Theatre. Perry-Mansfield celebrates its 102nd anniversary as the oldest continuously operating arts camp in the United States this year. Steamboat Dance Theatre, a community dance organization, presented its 43rd annual concert in February 2015, in addition to offering year-round dance scholarships and education programs in Yampa Valley schools and throughout the community. This collaborative and educational dance film series features free screenings of the hottest new dance documentaries along with the finest classic dance films from a variety of genres filmed throughout the ages.