FW: [Adta] Nigel - What about Dance Therapy?

[Lora Wilson]

To those contributing to the email campaign with So You Think You Can 
Dance... I noticed that at the bottom of the posting area you can check a 
box to forward a message to another email address. I entered adta just to 
keep the momentum going and to give an example of a message that could be 
written.

If there is no activity on a thread for too long it looks like it entirely 
disappears - I can't find Christine's post from 2 days ago "Dance Therapy as 
a Career Choice Too" anywhere.

Feel free to respond to my thread to keep things alive.

I noticed late last night that a 20 year old female from Atlanta Georgia had 
posted in response to a dance therapy post.  Her post simply read

"Dance Therapy sounds cool."

People ARE reading what we write!

I was going to respond to her this morning (as late last night I was dead on 
my feet) but couldn't find the thread again.  Opportunity lost... Lesson 
learned.

You can, when posting, direct your post to all AND have it forwarded to a 
particular subscriber.

Just offering all of this information to you if you feel moved to help, as 
Susan said, "make a mountain out of a mole hill."

If we each move one rock, the mountain gets made... and all we did was move 
one rock...

Thanks to all who have contribued a "rock."

Lora Wilson, MA, DTR
Newport Beach, California




>From: writelora at hotmail.com
>To: adta at adta.org
>Subject: [Adta] Nigel - What about Dance Therapy?
>Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:00:03 -0400 (EDT)
>
>This message is from So You Think You Can Dance.  It was forwarded to you 
>by DMTDANCER.
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>You can view it in the context of the entire discussion by going to:
>http://forums.fox.com/foxsytycd/messages/?msg=.
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>I feel moved to try to catch the attention of the the judges or the 
>producers.
>
>  Last week I was shocked when Nigel shared with the audience the possible 
>careers for dancers (besides performing) and there was no mention of 
>Dance/Movement Therapy. This is a field that exists
>internationally and has been an accredited career choice for dancers for 
>over 40 years.
>
>Last week the comment was made that audiences were compelled to watch this 
>show because "dance was joy."  Essentially, that is how I found my way to 
>this field - as a dancer, when I danced I knew the
>greatest peace, the greatest joy, the greatest aliveness I had ever known.  
>When I danced - on stage, in my bedroom, on the street - it was my way of 
>healing myself. (It still is.)
>
>When I was looking for masters level programs to study choreography, I 
>serendipitously discovered a program in "Dance/Movement Therapy."  I had no 
>idea what that was, never heard of the term before,
>but instinctually it made complete sense.  It made sense because dancing 
>had been my own therapy for years.
>
>So now, I'm a  registered dance /movement therapist with the American Dance 
>Therapy Association.  I have worked with teens with eating disorders, the 
>elderly with Alzheimer's Disease, the chronically
>mentally ill and artists who simply want to reflect and deepen their own 
>self-awareness. Every day I help bring the joy of movement and dance to the 
>patients in my groups and give them a creative,
>body-based outlet to express their emotions, to integrate mind and body, to 
>heal.
>
>This is an amazing field, a respected field and a growing field. It is a 
>disservice to dancers everywhere to exclude it from mention as a career 
>opportunity.  We are out here and out here strong.
>
>If anyone wants to know more about the field, feel free to respond back to 
>me. I'll do my best to answer your questions or direct you to someone who 
>can.
>
>Keep dancing!
>
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