Dance and Creativity within Dance Movement Therapy

Wengrower, Hilda; Chaiklin, Sharon

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“…Another source of support of this group model is the knowledge about dancing's physiological processes, such as the secretion of endorphins, the enhancement of chemical neurotransmitters (Jola & Calmeiro, 2017), and the active engagement of almost every part of the brain (Bläsing et al, 2018). However, these previous arguments were not enough: the aesthetic, playful and relational aspects unique to DMT seem to constitute an important contribution to the positive impact of DMT on depressed persons as already stated by Koch et al (2007) as well as Koch et al (2019), Koch (2021), Wiedenhofer and Koch (2016), and Winnicot's (1971) description of play is relevant here: '[p]laying is a highly specialized form in the service of communication with oneself and others . .…”

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“…Stern (2010) referred to vitality as the sensation of being alive and the modes people have of feeling their aliveness. Forms of vitality are constantly present in every experience, whether the individual is conscious of them or not (Wengrower, 2021). This concept is an important element in the work presented here and is considered one of the main therapeutic factors in DMT (Wengrower & Chaiklin, 2021).…”

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“…Shreeves (2006) described her experience incorporating nature observation in DMT. Allegranti (2021) included Materialism as part of her theoretical background for her work. Following Barad (2007, as cited in Allegranti, 2021, she sustains that besides existing in a grid of human (bio-psycho-social) forces, people 'intra-act', i.e., there is a 'mutually constitutive process of being within and part of the world rather than the interaction of separate entities' (Allegranti, 2021, p. 162) There are investigations on the beneficial effects of green spaces in hospitals.…”

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“…There are key aspects of dance movement therapy (DMT) which contribute to the treatment of patients with depression. First, dance is considered to be a means of communicating emotions or thoughts that are difficult to translate into words or did not access conscioSusness (Wengrower, 2021). Dance is perhaps more potent than any other art form (Chaiklin & Schmais, 1993).…”

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“…DMT can be considered an 'excursion into unknown places' (Tosey, 1992). This 'excursion' is an exploration into Heidegger's concept of 'possible' ways of being (Wengrower, 2021). As in many therapeutic groups, our purpose was to move towards the unknown, or to 'wake up the bear,' by helping adult patients wake up from numbness to alertness.…”

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Waking up the bear: dance/movement therapy group model with depressed adult patients during Covid-19 2020

Mesika¹,

Wengrower²,

Maoz

2021

Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy

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This article introduces a dance movement therapy group model used with adults diagnosed with depression and its adaptation to the conditions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic that helped preserve continuity of the therapeutic group and the therapeutic relationships. The model was initially researched as a pilot project and was offered as an option in the available treatment plan. The evaluation indicates that the DMT group model increased patients' motivation to play, which then led to an increased experience of affective vitality and alleviated symptoms of depression. All participants in the groups were recruited from psychiatric units and an outpatient clinic. Because of the pandemic, the meeting spaces moved to virtual spaces allowed by mobile phone videos, online therapy and the outdoors. Work in the open air inspired new interventions that were welcomed by the groups.

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Waking up the bear: dance/movement therapy group model with depressed adult patients during Covid-19 2020

Mesika¹,

Wengrower²,

Maoz

2021

Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy

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Open studio in dance movement therapy: application and enhancement

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Engelhard

2022

Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy

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Ples Kao Heterotopija Protiv Hegemonističkog Diskursa Traumatičnih Iskustava

RUPČIĆ KELAM

2024

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In this paper, we explore the dance as a practice and “Other” space, a counterhegemonic space which is affected by the existing social ordering, or existing power of traumatic discourse which is some kind of imposed discourse, while simultaneously resisting it. To explore these premises we will use Michel Foucault`s concept of heterotopia and apply it on the analysis of the dance as an artistic practice and possibilities to understand dance as a heterotopia in which dominant hegemonic discourses are reversed, and as a counterhegemonic space, as authors Christofidou and Milioni, emphases, that has a potential to disrupt and deconstruct hegemonic discourses of the past traumatic experiences or events. We argue that in order to be able to heal the traumas that are engraved in the body, and to understand the body as an expression and a canvas on which a crisis is outlined, we need bodily memories and stories, both those of survival, trauma and wounds, and those of healing. We demonstrate how dance may provide a counterhegemonic space, enable the reconstruction of the place of traumatic events, that are imprinted in body, into places of communication and reconstruction of the meaning, and how can dance invite individual to reflect on their identity and connect their fragmented self. Here we emphasize the meaning of movement – dance that opens the statics of the body to kinesthetic empathy, which in turn allows us to enter the spaces of unspoken body stories. The ethics of touch, proximity, and the ethics of the space between two bodies and what in these spaces "between" means to be, to be in that "not yet" (about-to-be) lead us in this direction. We assert that our bodies are both self-constituted as well as shaped by the collective, the society and history (personal or collective), and that we know by acting, primarily through the body, in synergy with the mind and the environment (enactive approach).

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Dance and Creativity within Dance Movement Therapy

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Waking up the bear: dance/movement therapy group model with depressed adult patients during Covid-19 2020

Waking up the bear: dance/movement therapy group model with depressed adult patients during Covid-19 2020

Open studio in dance movement therapy: application and enhancement

Ples Kao Heterotopija Protiv Hegemonističkog Diskursa Traumatičnih Iskustava

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