[Adta] Don't forget to Dance!

[Jenn Frank]

Dani,
   
  Thank you for this important fact, and the beautiful way that you expressed it in words!
   
  "Just as our clients have to learn that healing ultimately rests within 
themselves, dance/movement therapists must remember that it is the 
healing inherent in dance that makes our profession unique.  This is 
especially  true now that body psychotherapies have become so popular. 
While they may understand the importance of mirror neurons and the 
relationship between the plasticity of the brain and attachment issues,
body psychotherapies do not address the creative and aesthetic
processes that characterize dance/movement therapy. Nor do they look at the 
elements of dance movement, the relationship between dance and music,
or the powerhouse of skills that dancers as performers, teachers, and 
choreographers bring to the facilitative process."  
   
  Like I said, we are already ahead of them.  But I think we have to bring the Explicit (verbal conscious and logical) aspects of our inherently Implicit (unconscious sensorial, non-verbal) work to other professions, so that they can understand.  We need to use our creativity to speak their languge, withough losing the non-verbal quality of what we do.
   
  Donna, 
   
  Thank you for the suggestion to the editor.  I was trying to figure out who to contact about this.  I'll keep my eyes open.
   
  Warmly,
  Jenn


              Jennifer Frank Tantia, MS, ADTR, LCAT
   








       
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