[Adta] The most recent AJDT

[Hervey, Lenore]

My paper copy of the American Journal of Dance Therapy arrived a few days ago, and I just finished reading the first article about the work of Franziska Boas. The article is intellectually stimulating, beautifully written, and brings to life a lesser known part of our history. I want to highly recommend it to everyone. 
 
The article reminds me of two stories that are still very real and very present, even though Boas' story is 70 years old.  One is a story I have heard many times (and even experienced myself). That is the "discovery" of DMT by those who are out there working on their own trying to invent something that integrates dance and healing, something that they are passionate about and that makes so much sense to them. Fortunately for us, we have a wise and resourceful community of colleagues with the same passions. At that time, women like Boas, Chace, Bartenieff and others were really on their own, but how many of us still feel like we're on our own reinventing DMT every day? 
 
The other story is Boas' struggle to introduce DMT in Bellevue (a large psychiatric hospital in NYC), that sounds like the same story that many of us still tell about our own efforts to introduce DMT in some new setting that just doesn't get it. 
 
Well, there are always new frontiers for DMT! Something to be grateful for I guess.
 
Speaking of frontiers, don't overlook the review at the back, of Mad Hot Ballroom by Diane Duggan. (Boy would I love to see DMT move madly and hotly into partner/ballroom dances as a new frontier too.)
 
Kudos to the journal editors, Cathy Appel and Deborah Welsh, for a great issue! 
 
 
Lenore Hervey
 
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