Dance Movement Therapy / Spring 2025

    I Unit: Laban Movement Analysis Theme: Laban's Cube  Introduction   Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) is a method and language for describing, visualizing, interpreting and documenting all varieties of human movement. Rudolf Laban created a movement theory and practice that reflected what he recognized as the organization of movement in space in a harmonious way. Thus, he created movement scales that used the vertices of the Octahedron, the Icosahedron and the Cube as references.   II    Learning Objectives   Understand who was Rudolph Laban Explain the importance of relationship building Gather and awareness of the importance of the new concepts developed by Laban Experience what is like to move within the circle      III   Check In   IV Main Lesson   1 Review                                         ...

  I   Unit : Marian Chace   Theme: Kinesthetic Empathy   Introduction   Created in the 1940s by Marian Chace , dance/movement therapy (DMT) is a psychotherapeutic practice. . The term ' Chacian circle comes from Marian Chace's approach to Dance Movement therapy. Since she created this approach, the Chacian Circle has become a very frequent and popular way of doing group therapy by DM therapists. Today's class introduces Marian Chace as the creator of the field of Dance Therapy in the East Coast. II   Learning Objectives  Understand the importance of making eye contact Explain why the term reflecting is more accurate than mirroring when using it in Dance Movement Therapy. Gain an awareness of attunement & kinesthetic empathy Experience what would be like to be a client or therapist through role playing III Check In   IV   Main Lesson 1 Video   Dr . Arredondo is an expert on neurological or mental dysfunction and gauging the contr...

  I   Unit: The Therapeutic Encounter Theme: Joining, Attunement & Kinesthetic Empathy Introduction   Within the context of Dance/Movement Therapy, joining someone is to become linked or connected to that person in movement. On the other hand, attunement is the reactiveness we have to another person . It is the process by which we form relationships. Dr. Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and executive director of the Mindsight Institute , explains, "When we attune with others we allow our own internal state to shift, to come to resonate with the inner world of another. Finally, kinesthetic empathy, a key interdisciplinary concept in our understanding of social interaction across creative and cultural practices, describes the ability to experience empathy merely by observing the movements of another human being. II Check In III   Learning Objectives    Understand the meaning of joining Explain the importa...