Dance Theropy
Introduction
Dance therapy is a kind of psychotherapy that uses movement to promote the social, mental, emotional, and physical improvement of an individual. Dance is the most important key of the arts it involves a direct expression of someone’s self over one’s body. It is specifically a powerful medium for therapy. Dance therapy is the use of movement to recover the mental and physical health of a person. Dance therapy is the use of movement to recover the mental and physical health of a person (Dance, 2013).. It emphasis on the connection between the mind and body to support health and healing. Dance therapy can be deliberate as an expressive therapy. Clinical reports propose that dance therapy may be effective in refining self-esteem and decreasing stress and anxiety. As a form of exercise, dance therapy can be beneficial for both physical and emotional phases of quality of life. The benefits of dance involve improved balance as well as it can improve the quality of life. Though benefits can be attained with a short and concentrated dance involvement, longer involvements may prove to be more beneficial.
American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)
The roots of dance/movement therapy can be found to the early 20th century and Marian Chace was the founder of DMT (Sandel, Chaiklin, & Lohn, 1993). . Chace was a dancer in Washington, D.C. who started teaching dance after termination of her career with the Denishawn Dance Company in 1930. She observed that some of her students were much more attracted in the emotions they spoken in dancing, and she also began to motivate this procedure of self-expression. Word spread of the dance students’ conveyed feelings of well being when they mentally relieved themselves through dance, and doctors became attracted towards dance therapy. They started to send their patients to Chace many of who were people with psychiatric disorders. Dance therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a practice that promotes the emotional,
Dance therapy is a kind of psychotherapy that uses movement to promote the social, mental, emotional, and physical improvement of an individual. Dance is the most important key of the arts it involves a direct expression of someone’s self over one’s body. It is specifically a powerful medium for therapy. Dance therapy is the use of movement to recover the mental and physical health of a person. Dance therapy is the use of movement to recover the mental and physical health of a person (Dance, 2013).. It emphasis on the connection between the mind and body to support health and healing. Dance therapy can be deliberate as an expressive therapy. Clinical reports propose that dance therapy may be effective in refining self-esteem and decreasing stress and anxiety. As a form of exercise, dance therapy can be beneficial for both physical and emotional phases of quality of life. The benefits of dance involve improved balance as well as it can improve the quality of life. Though benefits can be attained with a short and concentrated dance involvement, longer involvements may prove to be more beneficial.
American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)
The roots of dance/movement therapy can be found to the early 20th century and Marian Chace was the founder of DMT (Sandel, Chaiklin, & Lohn, 1993). . Chace was a dancer in Washington, D.C. who started teaching dance after termination of her career with the Denishawn Dance Company in 1930. She observed that some of her students were much more attracted in the emotions they spoken in dancing, and she also began to motivate this procedure of self-expression. Word spread of the dance students’ conveyed feelings of well being when they mentally relieved themselves through dance, and doctors became attracted towards dance therapy. They started to send their patients to Chace many of who were people with psychiatric disorders. Dance therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a practice that promotes the emotional,
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