Global dance/movement therapy growth and development

Dulicai, Dianne; Berger, Miriam Roskin

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2005.03.002

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“…A survey of DMT practitioners in 37 countries revealed common sentiments, assessments of problems, and visions of the future within the field (Dulicai & Berger, 2005). Dance/movement therapists around the world report a shared commitment to utilizing ‘a unique method —combining the art of dance or movement with the science of health’ to help people in need (p. 215).…”

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Art therapies and dementia care: A systematic review

2011

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Despite steadfast interest in the use of arts therapies (ATs) with individuals who have dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT), a systematic review of the literature has not been conducted. This paper aims to critique this evidence base, including music, visual arts, drama, and dance/movement therapies between the years 1990 and 2010, and make suggestions on how it can be strengthened. The review addresses four questions: (1) What is the focus of the empirical base on using AT with persons who have DAT? (2) (How) have these studies been designed and evaluated? (3) What findings are reported? (4) What does this tell us about the potential of AT for enriching the lives of people with dementia? This analysis reveals that systematically designed, documented, and evaluated AT studies are scarce. Information on research design, operational concepts, measurement tools, and methods of evaluation/analysis are vague, if provided. Disagreement exists about the utilization of theoretical concepts and measurement/evaluation tools. The evidence base is further divided between studies focusing on the ‘product’ versus the ‘process’ of art. Shortcomings in dementia-specific research include a paucity of accounts from participants, failure to extend therapies to individuals in the early stages, a lack of application to those living at home, and often superficial attention to the meaningful aspects of doing art. Models investigating subjective well-being, or ‘enrichment,’ rather than objectively measured biomedical approaches privileging the management of deficits, would expand the evidence base and help ensure that those with dementia receive the services they want, since strictly allopathic methodologies will continue to fall short of adequately evaluating what are deeply idiosyncratic psychosocial issues.

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Art therapies and dementia care: A systematic review

2011

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“…It seems a challenging issue to translate the specific Laban vocabulary from one language and culture to the other, confirming that 'there are no readymade words‗ which could work universally. This seems to be of vital importance considering that modern DMP practitioners work in many different contexts and environments (Dulicai & Roskin Berger, 2005), encompassing numerous diverse sets of culture.…”

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Languaging the embodied experience

Panhofer

Payne

2011

Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy

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Original article can be found at : http://www.informaworld.com/ Copyright Taylor & FrancisThis article is based on a study (Panhofer, 2009) which explored ways of verbalizing the embodied experience and inquired into the essentially subjective undertaking of yielding meaning in the movement. In Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP), movement observation and analysis generally serves as a tool to understand, classify and interpret human movement, providing practitioners with a language for how to speak and describe movement. The study drew attention to the possibilities and limitations of wording the embodied experience, or, as Sheets-Johnstone (2007, p.1) referred to it as ??? the challenge of languaging the experience???. Underlining nonlanguaged ways of knowing the study showed how movement replaces words in many ways and illustrated valuable possible methods of communicating the embodied experience such as the use of metaphors, images and poetry. It is suggested, as a result of the study, that the embodied word needs to be linked to a personal, emotive vocabulary rather than any technical movement observational language when practitioners communicate their practice to others

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“…Dance/movement therapy is regarded as a Western creation (Panagiotopoulou, 2011), while dance itself is universal and functions across human societies as a healing force for all kinds of diseases (Dulicai & Berger, 2005;Schott-Billman, 1992). Goodill (2005) notes that, by its nature and predisposition, DMT presents a multi-disciplinary perspective on trauma healing.…”

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An African Igbo Perspective on Mourning Dances and Their Application to Dance/Movement Therapy

Akunna

2015

Am J Dance Ther

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As a preliminary examination of therapeutic aspects of mourning rites honoring the dead in Igbo communities of South-Eastern Nigeria, this article brings into focus functions of dirges and accompanying mourning dances as a cultural healing system relevant to dance/movement therapy (DMT). The perspective of the author, a Nigerian of Igbo extraction and an active witness of the death dances, is interwoven with psychodynamic and humanistic principles. Discussion centers on how integrating techniques of African Igbo mourning dances into DMT treatment approaches may help alleviate overwhelming suffering and a sense of fear associated with pain of bereavement and loss.

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Global dance/movement therapy growth and development

Cited by 18 publications

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Art therapies and dementia care: A systematic review

Art therapies and dementia care: A systematic review

Languaging the embodied experience

An African Igbo Perspective on Mourning Dances and Their Application to Dance/Movement Therapy

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