Katherin Joubran and Yochi Cohen took part in a winter school as a part of a German-Israeli project, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, קרן פורום העתיד גרמניה-ישראל, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within the German Excellence Initiative (EXE 1086), on movement and movement disorder with dancers, scientists, and people with Parkinson’s.
The name of the project is Störung/ הפרעה which is a unique collaborative interdisciplinary project that brings together scientists, professional dancers and choreographers, physicians, as well as Parkinson’s disease patients from Israel and Germany, to explore different aspects of human movement and movement disorder. Specifically, the project involves Theater Freiburg and Exzellenzcluster BrainLinks-BrainTools of the University of Freiburg on the German side, and the Yasmeen Godder Dance Company, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), University of Haifa, Weizmann Institute of Science, Bar-Illan University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from the Israeli side.
Throughout 2015, weekly dance lessons are offered for a total of 40 Parkinson’s disease patients in Freiburg and in Tel Aviv, while graduate-level students participate in the dance lessons and conduct related studies.
