[Adta] YOUR HELP IS NEEDED

[Lora Wilson]

If you've been following the "So You Think You Can Dance" emails, you can 
disregard the following:

If you've been deleting those emails because you thought you weren't 
interested... please read because we need your help for an important PR 
opportunity that is FREE, EASY and IMMINENT.

Dear dance therapists and dance therapy supporters,

This is an IMPORTANT OUTREACH opportunity.  Regardless of what you might 
like or dislike about the show, So You Think You Can Dance – regardless of 
whether you have even SEEN the show… it has an audience – an audience of 
people who love dance, who do dance, who wish they could dance…  Here is a 
chance to … NOT preach to the choir, but preach to the masses outside the 
church who might join the choir if they just knew it existed!

Granted, the message boards are primarily attended to by teenagers and 
possibly college students…. But they are the youth who are passionate about 
dance!  Will all of them scroll down the topics to read about dance therapy? 
Probably not… but the kids who post are passionate about it and some WILL 
happen across our board.  Ideally, the judges and producers – one of them – 
might take note… if we can get the numbers up… BUT even if the big wigs 
don’t…even if the producers and celebrities don’t read our posts… dance 
loving youth will – and who knows how many of the MILLIONS of young dancers 
who are fans of this show will say the words “dance therapy” for the first 
time and click on the ADTA website to quench their curiosity.

AND, if we can get the numbers up in the hundreds, dare I say THOUSAND posts 
on the DMT topic, I can’t help but think some production assistant’s 
assistant is going to point it out to a suit.

I passionately encourage you – yes all of you who are reading this message 
right now because you are a member of this listserve -  to extend yourself 
for 5 minutes to tell YOUR story on the So You Think You Can Dance 
listserve.  One paragraph about how YOU transitioned from dancing to wanting 
to become a dance therapist.  Or share ONE paragraph about the power of 
dance in your work with a client.  Make DMT real to the readers of that 
website – make them want to learn more. Remember as a dancer how excited you 
were when you first discovered there was such a field as DMT?  Share that 
moment with these tv viewers and let THEM experience their own serendipitous 
moment!

I have checked the site and discovered as Susan did that it doesn’t look the 
same as yesterday. That is because there are so many posts every minute that 
the site only has the most active messages on its opening page – the hottest 
topic so to speak.

To post YOUR story – your one paragraph, make it real, DMT story…

1)	Go to http://forums.fox.com/foxsytycd

2)	Register as a subscriber (don’t worry, it’s not like the listserves, you 
won’t be receiving emails in your inbox)

3)	Click on “messages” in the top left corner.

4)	Scroll down to “judges, choreographers, producers” and look for the 
“Dance Therapy as a Career Option Too.” Click on this and reply with your 
own message.


This has to be one of the easiest, quickest, cheapest ways to do PR for DMT. 
  If each member of this listserve – some 1000 members posted… it’s TOO EASY 
to let go by.

Everyone.
Please pitch in.
If only everything was this easy.
Five minutes from each member of the listserve. That is all.

With vim and vigor,
Lora Wilson, MA, DTR

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