0:00:27 > 0:00:30APPLAUSE
0:05:48 > 0:05:50HE PLAYS GLASS
0:06:51 > 0:06:54TRADITIONAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Up, down.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Exercise is really important for people with Parkinson's.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20And they've found that music is also really important,
0:07:20 > 0:07:24so the beat of the actual music for set dancing
0:07:24 > 0:07:27really helps the people with Parkinson's to get back that rhythm
0:07:27 > 0:07:30that they've lost. Most people think of Parkinson's as
0:07:30 > 0:07:33an older person's disease and somebody who shakes,
0:07:33 > 0:07:34so, for me, I don't have a tremor.
0:07:34 > 0:07:39My body sometimes moves a little bit more fluidly than others, but that's
0:07:39 > 0:07:43as a result of the medication, not as a result of the Parkinson's.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46So, for me, freezing gait is my worst symptom.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49That's when I basically get locked in my own body
0:07:49 > 0:07:50and get completely paralysed.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53And that can happen three or four times a day.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54Who put the two together?
0:07:54 > 0:07:57So, the set dancing was put together by Daniel Volpe,
0:07:57 > 0:08:00who's an Italian neurologist who lives in Venice.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02And he comes to Ireland on his holidays quite a bit
0:08:02 > 0:08:05and likes traditional music and traditional dancing,
0:08:05 > 0:08:07so he was in a pub one night, as you do,
0:08:07 > 0:08:09and he saw a gentleman who he knew had Parkinson's because
0:08:09 > 0:08:13Daniel Volpe is actually a movement disorder specialist himself,
0:08:13 > 0:08:14specialising in Parkinson's.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17So he saw this gentleman walk onto the floor
0:08:17 > 0:08:19with very obvious Parkinsonian traits.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21And once the music started,
0:08:21 > 0:08:25the gentleman then started to be able to dance.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26So, he knew there was something about that.
0:08:26 > 0:08:31So, he went back to Venice, found out there was set-dancing classes in Venice, believe it or not...
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- Set dancing in Venice? - Absolutely, yeah.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36And then, which I think is fantastic, is he went and learned how to set-dance.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39So, he went and began to understand what was going on for the people,
0:08:39 > 0:08:41and then he did research on it.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44And I think that's the really most important piece of any of this,
0:08:44 > 0:08:47is that if you experience something, you can then really talk about it
0:08:47 > 0:08:51because it's a learned outcome that you'll get from the actual project.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53So it's great, really good.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55And you're going to let me join in?
0:08:55 > 0:08:57- Absolutely, love to. And you as well?- For sure, yeah.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59TRADITIONAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Move that hand now. Up.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Raise that hand up.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Keep it up.
0:10:31 > 0:10:32Up, down.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34And hold. Forward, back.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14And up.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Last time! Well done, everybody.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19APPLAUSE
0:23:53 > 0:23:57# When I was a young lad
0:24:00 > 0:24:04# I worked as a postal boy
0:24:09 > 0:24:13# In a slick navy outfit
0:24:16 > 0:24:22# I cycled all day and night
0:24:26 > 0:24:29# Now I'm a young man
0:24:33 > 0:24:38# It's time for a new plan
0:24:43 > 0:24:48# Down by the schoolhouse
0:24:49 > 0:24:55# At the corner of Mount Street Bridge
0:24:59 > 0:25:03# The crack of a bullet
0:25:06 > 0:25:11# Echoes from the Surgeon's College
0:25:16 > 0:25:20# And here by the canal
0:25:20 > 0:25:24# A silence descends like death
0:25:24 > 0:25:27# Little do some know
0:25:27 > 0:25:32# They're about to draw their final breath
0:25:36 > 0:25:41# Officer Rigby
0:25:43 > 0:25:48# Screams for a forward march
0:25:53 > 0:25:57# For a well-drilled army
0:25:59 > 0:26:05# A handful of firebrands can be no match
0:26:09 > 0:26:13# But if there's a God in the Heavens
0:26:13 > 0:26:17# He'll protect me and my friends
0:26:17 > 0:26:21# For we've been good Christians
0:26:21 > 0:26:25# Hard-working Britons
0:26:25 > 0:26:27# And when the day is done
0:26:27 > 0:26:30# My time will come
0:26:30 > 0:26:33# But not yet for I've so much to do
0:26:33 > 0:26:35# Fall in love, settle down
0:26:35 > 0:26:37# Start a family
0:26:37 > 0:26:41# Watch them grow up to be like me
0:26:41 > 0:26:45# Or their beautiful mother Or a mix of both
0:26:45 > 0:26:50# I don't mind, once they're healthy I'll keep them safe
0:26:50 > 0:26:54# Just let me get past this bridge I don't wanna be here
0:26:54 > 0:26:57# I'm crippled with fear I'm frozen and frightened
0:26:57 > 0:27:02# Now the deafening silence
0:27:05 > 0:27:14# The silence is killing me. #