Since 1966, ADTA and its members have pioneered the in-depth understanding of how the mind and body interact ... in sickness and in health.
ADTA promotes the use of dance and movement as powerful tools for mental and emotional health. ADTA maintains high standards for education, training, and professional practice for dance/movement therapists. What is dance/movement therapy?
Plan to join us September 23 - 26, 2010 in Brooklyn, New York for the ADTA's 45th Annual Conference.
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***There have been 2 schedule changes in Thursday's Intensives***
- IS2 - DMT and White Identity in a Multicultural World: Where do I fit in? How can I help? with Elizabeth
Templeton is now a half-day intensive, beginning at 9:00 am and ending at 12:00 pm.
- A new intensive has been added as IS9! Counseling's Vision 20/20 and DMT: Considering your Future with Leslie Armeniox. IS9 is a half-day intensive starting at 1:00 pm and ending at 4:00 pm. To find out more about this intensive, please go to the Annual Conference page and click on the link to view intensives or the link to view the full conference schedule.
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ADTA Member Highlights!
Elissa White, Sharon Chaiklin and Claire Schmais are quoted in an informative and inspiring article about Marian Chace in the August issue of Dance Teacher magazine. In this well researched and written article, writer Rachel Strauss calls Chace ""the original American dance therapist". Chace "proved that dance isn't just entertaining and beautiful; it could free the deepest parts of the soul and strengthen an entire person." "[Chace] became aware of the infinite numbers of ways one moves, based on cultural and religious backgrounds."
Dance/movement therapist Judy Given was written up in the August 9 article "Dance therapy: the art of healing through expression" by Kelly Cornelius in the August 9 issue of Nashville Dance Examiner. Given is Director of Campus Development for Park Manor in Nashville and teaches Authentic Movement.
"Kids from the Cite Soleil slum who have been traumatized by the January earthquake participate in a drum circle, singing and dancing, led by Amber Gray, a licensed mental health professional." See ongoing coverage of the work that Amber Elizabeth Gray is doing in Haiti in the June 24 Palm Beach Post News article, Counselors struggle to save minds traumatized by destruction, death in Haiti". In the accompanying video, Gray talks about the specific dmt techniques she is using and what makes them therapeutic.
Dance provides children with neurological disorders another language to express themselves, according to dance/movement therapist Rachel Federman-Morales in this interview on WHYY in Philadelphia. You can see video clips of Morales working with dancers from Fusion Two and from HMS School for children with cerebral palsy and hear about the benefits for individual children.
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