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Dance/movement therapy ( DMT) in USA [ 1] and Australia [ 2] or dance movement psychotherapy ( DMP) in the UK [ 3] is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body. [ 4] As a modality of the creative arts therapies, DMT looks at the correlation between movement and emotion.
Irmgard Bartenieff. Irmgard Bartenieff (February 24, 1900, in Berlin, Germany – August 27, 1981, in New York City) was a dance theorist, dancer, choreographer, physical therapist, and a leading pioneer of dance therapy. A student of Rudolf Laban, she pursued cross-cultural dance analysis, and generated a new vision of possibilities for human ...
Expressive arts therapy is the practice of using imagery, storytelling, dance, music, drama, poetry, movement, horticulture, dreamwork, and visual arts together, in an integrated way, to foster human growth, development, and healing. [ 1] Expressive arts therapy is its own distinct therapeutic discipline, an inter-modal discipline where the ...
Authentic Movement ( AM) is a form of expressive movement therapy which grew out of an inner-directed approach to movement developed by Mary Starks Whitehouse. It was described as unpremeditated, genuine, or "authentic." Whitehouse called her work "Movement-in-depth." [1] Janet Adler developed this approach into a practice involving a mover and ...
Somatics. Somatic educator Moshe Feldenkrais in 1978, teaching how to rise from a chair. Somatics is a field within bodywork and movement studies which emphasizes internal physical perception and experience. The term is used in movement therapy to signify approaches based on the soma, or "the body as perceived from within", [ 1][ 2] including ...
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American Dance Therapy Association. American Dance Therapy Association is the only organization solely dedicated to the growth and enhancement of the profession of dance/movement therapy (DMT). It was founded in 1966 [1] by Marian Chace, Elissa Queyquep White, Claire Schmais, and several practitoners from across the United States.
Theatrical dance, also called performance or concert dance, is intended primarily as a spectacle, usually a performance upon a stage by virtuoso dancers. It often tells a story, perhaps using mime, costume and scenery, or it may interpret the musical accompaniment, which is often specially composed and performed in a theatre setting but it is ...