Dance and Creativity within Dance Movement Therapy: International Perspectives

Contents

• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Foreword by Sondra Fraleigh
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: About Dance
• Dance Comes to the Frontstage in Dance Movement Therapy. Hilda Wengrower.
• Back to Basics: The Aesthetic, Poetic, and Contemplative Movements' Attributes That Heal in Dance Movement Therapy. Rainbow T. H. Ho.
• On the possibility of Authentic Movement: A Philosophical Investigation. Rona Cohen
• The Invisible of the Dancing Body. Ruth Ronen
• Part II. Research
• The Significance of Dance in Dance Movement Therapy: An International Online Survey with DMT Novices. Iris Brauninger and Ulf-Dietrich Reips.
• A Way to Embodiment through Aesthetic Relationship: Transformational Body Tracings.
• Zeynep Catay and Marcia Plevin.
• "Being Moved" as a Therapeutic Factor of Dance Movement Therapy. Sabine C. Koch
• Wording the Complexity of Dance Movement Therapy: A Scoping Review on How Dance Movement Therapists Describe Their Clinical Practice. Rosemarie Samaritter and Marja Cantell
• Creating Breeds Creating. Susan Dee Imus.
• Creating the Dance of Self: A stage theory of the Creative Process in Dance/Movement Therapy. Kristine Purcell.
• Part III. Practice
• Dancing Activism: Choreographing the Material with/in Dementia. Beatrice Allegranti.
• Seeing with the Heart: The Aesthetics of Dance/Movement Therapy with Older Adults and People with Dementia. Donna Newman-Bluestein.
• Dance-Rhythm-Therapy for Patients with Parkinson's disease. Emilie Jauffret-Hanifi, Svetlana Panova, France Schott-Billmann.
• Dance Movement Therapy and Psycho-Social Rehabilitation: Model Sampoornata. Sohini Chakraborty.
• Asian Cultural Body, Dance, and Therapy: A Korean Perspective. Kyung Soon Ko.
• Dance/Movement Therapy in Japan and its Cultural Roots. Yukari Sakiyama.
• Dance Movement Therapy and Flamenco: Relationships through Traditional Rhythms. Elena Cristobal Linares.
• Time, Space, and an Aesthetics of Survival: Dance/Movement Therapy and Embodied Imagination after Unimaginable Loss. David Alan Harris.
• As the Dance Winds Down: Coping with Aging as a Dance Therapist. Jane Wilson Cathcart.
• Index