[Adta] Dance, Movement, and Bodies June 2007
miriam berger
mb33 at nyu.edu
Mon Oct 22 21:49:50 EDT 2007
Yes, the event was in June and I attended both evenings. On the first,
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone led a totally non-verbal simple movement experience
for the participants. On the second, Joanna Harris (a DMT), Daniel Stern
and the others had an intriguing conversation on movement as language and
thinking with the body, etc. (see description below). As I mentioned to
Sabine Koch off the list, it was interesting, but a bit disheartening, as
it was reminiscent of similar workshops through the years ago with the
analytic community...where analysts (in the audience) SEEMED to understand
the basis of our work, but in actuality sort of missed the core philosophy
in relation to embodiment...as they became entangled verbally in many
levels of conceptualization! They get it...and then they don't!
Mimi Berger
At 07:53 AM 10/21/07 -0400, you wrote:
>OH! Thanks Marcia! I didn't check the date & was confused by what must have
>been some messages sent off of the list re this conference.
>If anyone attended, could they share a bit?
>
>Thanks
>Susan kleinman, MA, ADTR, NCC
>ADTE Listserve Respondent
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>Marcia Plevin
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>Hello,
>I don't understand it says that the PHILOCTETES conference is June 2007, It
>
>happened already?
>Marcia Plevin
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>> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:10:16 +0200
>> From: Sabine Koch <sabine.koch at urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
>> Subject: Re: [Adta] Dance, Movement, and Bodies
>> To: miriam berger <mb33 at nyu.edu>
>> Cc: adta at adta.org
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>> Dear Elissa, Mimi, and all,
>>
>> Sorry, I actually must have been half asleep when I forwarded this to
>> the listserv last night (it was early in the morning about 2 o'clock). ;-)
>> But thanks Mimi for the interesting evaluation of the event! It is
>> usually important and sometimes truely inspiring to walk along the
>> borders to other professional communities.
>>
>> Sabine
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sabine C. Koch
>>
>> Institute of Psychology
>> University of Heidelberg
>> Hauptstrasse 47-51
>> 69117 Heidelberg/Germany
>>
>> phone: ++49 (0) 6221 547297
>> eMail: sabine.koch at urz.uni-heidelberg.de
>>
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:32:31 -0400
>> From: "skdmt2" <skdmt2 at bellsouth.net>
>> Subject: RE: [Adta] Dance, Movement, and Bodies
>> To: "'Sabine Koch'" <sabine.koch at urz.uni-heidelberg.de>,
>> <adta at adta.org>
>> Message-ID: <200710202234.l9KMYeVR021408 at ns.connext.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>>
>> Hi Sabine
>> This DOES sound like a very interesting event & one of our own, Joanna
>> Harris IS on the program. If some of you attend, I hope you will report re
>
>> your experience for us
>>
>> Susan kleinman, MA, ADTR, NCC
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: adta-bounces at adta.org [mailto:adta-bounces at adta.org] On Behalf Of
>> Sabine Koch
>> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 7:16 PM
>> To: adta at adta.org
>> Subject: [Adta] Dance, Movement, and Bodies
>>
>> You are closer than I am. ;-)
>> So please join this event, if you can.
>> It sure sounds very interesting!
>>
>> Sabine Koch
>> Heidelberg, Germany
>>
>>
>>
>> - THE PHILOCTETES CENTER FOR THE
>> MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF IMAGINATION
>> at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
>>
>> (EDWARD NERSESSIAN AND FRANCIS LEVY, CO-
>> DIRECTORS)
>>
>> Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 7:00pm (Workshop)
>>
>> Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 7:00pm (Roundtable)
>>
>> The Philoctetes Center, 247 East 82nd Street
>>
>> Dance, Movement, and Bodies: Forays into the Nonlinguistic and
>> the Challenge of Languaging Experience
>>
>> The Movement Workshop, led by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, will
>> provide a communal experiential point of departure for forays into
>> the nonlinguistic and the challenge of languaging experience. The
>> Workshop requires no formal movement training of any kind, no
>> prior involvement in dance, gymnastics,
>> or any particular sport activity. Neither does it involve learning new
>> movement techniques or skills. It will draw on wholly natural kinetic
>> dimensions of our humanness and basic facets of our interpersonal
>> lives. You will be most comfortable if you wear non binding clothes
>> and have no
>> reservations about removing your shoes.
>>
>> The following topics fall within the compass of the Roundtable: 1)
>> infants are not pre-linguistic�on the contrary, language is post-
>> kinetic; 2) thinking in movement is a natural mode of thinking for
>> human as well as nonhuman animals; 3) a natural kinship exists
>> between play and forms of dance
>> improvisation; 4) the advent of bipedality opened enormous
>> movement possibilities, especially the possibility of a new qualitative
>> dynamic, i.e., ballistic movement, and thereby the possibility of
>> exponentially variable kinetic dynamics; 5) the human range of
>> movement and the communicative
>> powers of the human body are open-ended in terms of play and
>> artistic creation; 5) movement does not simply take place in space
>> and in time, but creates its own space, time, and force, and thereby
>> its own unique dynamics; 6) dance is a comparatively neglected art
>> form, perhaps because it
>> prominences in unadulterated ways our bare humanness and utterly
>> vulnerable bodies.
>>
>> Robert Fagen is retired Professor of Biometry at the University of
>> Alaska Fairbanks and studies dance in Juneau, Alaska. He is the
>> author of Animal Play Behavior , the novel The Pawless Papers ,
>> and poems recently published in Blue Unicorn , Common Ground
>> Review , and Tidal Echoes .
>> Having completed the first several volumes of a sequence of novels
>> entitled Margot in Paradise , he is currently at work on the next.
>>
>> Joanna Gewertz Harris is a dancer, choreographer, teacher,
>> therapist, dance historian and dance critic. She was a contributor to
>> and editor of IMPULSE , the San Francisco annual of contemporary
>> dance, and the first editor of American Journal of Dance Therapy .
>> She has taught at UC Berkeley, UC
>> Santa Cruz, Cal State Hayward, Sonoma State, Lone Mountain and
>> Antioch College. She is currently on the faculty of Diablo Valley
>> College, Emeritus College, instructor at the Modern Dance Center,
>> Berkeley, and a teacher of special classes for seniors at Contra
>> Costa Senior Living Centers. Her
>> forthcoming book is Beyond Isadora: Bay Area Dancing, 1915-65 .
>>
>> Steve Paxton is a dancer and choreographer whose work has been
>> recognized with "Bessie" awards and grants from the NEA, the
>> Rockefeller Foundation, Contemporary Performance Arts
>> Foundation, and Change, Inc. His writing on dance has appeared in
>> numerous publications, including the dance journal
>> Contact Quarterly .
>>
>> Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is an interdisciplinary scholar affiliated
>> with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She
>> was a dancer/choreographer and professor of dance for 20 years
>> prior to her professorship in philosophy. Her books include The
>> Phenomenology of Dance , The
>> Roots of Thinking , The Roots of Power: Animate Form and
>> Gendered Bodies , and The Primacy of Movement . Forthcoming
>> books include The Roots of Morality and The Corporeal Turn: An
>> Interdisciplinary Reader . She was recently awarded a Distinguished
>> Fellowship for research on xenophobia by the
>> Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University (England) in
>> conjunction with the Institute's inaugural program, "The Legacy of
>> Charles Darwin."
>>
>> Daniel N. Stern , M.D., is Professor of psychology at the University
>> of Geneva and Adjunct Professor of psychiatry at Cornell University
>> Medical Center's New York Hospital. An expert in the mother-infant
>> relationship, he is the author of The Interpersonal World of the
>> Infant and The Present
>> Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life .
>>
>> The event is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come
>> basis.
>>
>> _______________________
>>
>> The mission of the Philoctetes Center is to foster the study of
>> imagination -- funding research, organizing roundtable discussions,
>> offering courses and programs open to the public. The Center
>> publishes a newsletter, Dialog, and is developing a web-based
>> clearing house on work related to
>> imagination. In addition, the Center will publish its journal,
>> Philoctetes, in the coming months. Visit www.philoctetes.org for
>> more information. You may call at 646-422-0645.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sabine C. Koch
>>
>> Institute of Psychology
>> University of Heidelberg
>> Hauptstrasse 47-51
>> 69117 Heidelberg/Germany
>>
>> phone: ++49 (0) 6221 547297
>> eMail: sabine.koch at urz.uni-heidelberg.de
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>> From: Suzy Matheson <srossol at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: [Adta] RE: Adta Digest, Vol 24, Issue 47
>> To: <adta at adta.org>
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>> Lauren,
>>
>> I think you are right on with your instincts, and see you are getting good
>
>> feedback from the list serve. The only thing I wanted to add or suggest is
>
>> to think of a way to incorporate your style as a dance/movement therapist
>> and come up with a proposal to your supervisor that would replace the
>> authentic movement group. Like others are saying about this population
>> needing a more grounding, safer container, perhaps your supervisor is not
>> aware of all this and authentic movement may have just sounded good at the
>
>> time kinda thing. Feel free to view my website to help draft your proposal
>
>> of a dance/movement therapy group that would work for you and your
>> co-worker.
>>
>> http://www.movementexpressions.com/services.htm
>>
>>
>> Another suggestion in lieu of a DMT group, is to have a Stretch/Meditation
>
>> group. While at Phoenix House in Keene, NH (not too far from Brattelboro)
>> 2004-2006, I was doing 1 DMT and 1 Stretch/Meditation group a week. The
>> combination of these seemed to have a nice flow in the client's weekly
>> routine at the 4-6 week residential treatment program for adults.
>>
>> I have copied and pasted the outline for the Stretch/Meditation group I
>> use to do.
>>
>> Good Luck-
>> Suzy Rossol Matheson, MA, ADTR, NCCSuzy Rossol Matheson
>> www.movementexpressions.com 214-701-5491 Cell
>>
>>
>>
>> Stretch/Meditation Group outline- Phoenix House Keene
>>
>>
>> Length of Group: 1 hour
>>
>> Music: See below
>>
>> Title Artist
>> "Animal Kingdom" Disney : Tree of Life Area
>
>> Music
>> "Phantasy" Danny Wright
>> "Montezuma" Cusco- Pure
>> Moods II
>> "Camel Hump" Wild Asparagus
>> "Chariots of Fire" Vangelis- Pure
>> Moods II
>> "Dessert Rose" Sting
>> "Porcelain" Moby-
>> Pure Moods III
>> "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) Enya- Pure
>> Moods
>> "The Mummer's Dance" Lorenna McKennitt- Pure Moods
>> II
>> "Cannon in D Major" Pachelbel- George
>> Amantino Romance Vol. III
>>
>> STRETCH (30-40 minutes)
>>
>> ** Starting in a sitting position
>>
>> · Head
>> Tilt head to right..Tilt head to left
>> Tilt head down..Tilt head up (soft gaze to ceiling)
>> Look to right..Look to left
>>
>> Head rolls to right side (going at your own pace)
>> Head rolls to left side (going at your own pace)
>>
>> · Face
>> Using fingers, give your self a scalp massage
>> Massage your temples.eyebrows.cheeks.earlobes.back of neck
>> Open mouth wide.frowning, lips clenched tight. repeat
>> Smile big
>> Any other fun faces
>>
>> · Shoulders & Arms (Hands up on shoulders)
>> Shoulder rolls back..Shoulder rolls forward
>> Twisting torso side to side and holding to right and holding to left
>>
>> Right arm across chest, using left hand to push in.Hold
>> Bring Right arm behind head, using left hand to push down.Hold
>>
>> Repeat with left arm
>>
>> · Hands
>> Circles with right wrist (closed fist).opening hands.adding
>> fingers.Creating flow like movements in space around you with wrist, hand,
>
>> fingers, elbow, arm
>> Write name in air with right hand
>>
>> Repeat above with left wrist
>>
>> Shake both hands out.Shake just right.Shake just left
>> Extend arms out. Flex hands back.Flex hands down
>> Alternate right hand flexed back and left hand flexed down
>> Switch back and forth
>>
>> · Legs
>> Both legs out in front of you.stretch arms up and stretch forward to touch
>
>> toes
>> Repeat
>>
>> Bring one leg in and stretch to the leg that is out. Twist Torso and
>> stretch away from the extended leg.Go to middle and let body lean forward.
>> Repeat using other leg
>>
>> Lie on back.both feet on floor, knees bent
>> Bring right leg in as if you are hugging your leg into you
>> Extend leg up in air- stop when you feel the stretch. Hold
>> Repeat sequence again- hugging leg in and extending up..Hold
>>
>> Repeat on left leg
>>
>> · Abdominals
>> Group facilitator times 1 minute and clients do as many as they want.
>> Crunch up and hold for 10 seconds
>> Pilates bicycle switching right and left leg as if you are peddling
>> switching side to side
>> Bring both legs in to chest.Rock side to side and in a circle massaging
>> your back
>>
>> · Back
>> Lie on stomach.reverse crunch for 10
>> Lifting and holding for 10 (arms up in front of you as if you are flying)
>> Stretching out stomach muscle.Lifting up back arch.Repeat
>>
>> Sitting back.Stretching arms forward.Child's pose
>>
>> **Clients stand for below exercises
>>
>> Standing in parallel 1st position (toes pointing forward, feet 1 foot
>> apart)
>> Shift forward.Test balance.Back to center
>> Shift back.Test balance.Back to center
>> Shift Right.Test balance (lift left leg).Back to center
>> Shift left.Test balance (lift right leg).Back to center
>>
>> Standing on right leg, raise up left knee in parallel.Hold.Turn out and
>> rest on right leg..
>> Using arms for balance.Hold.Use focal point to help balance
>>
>> Repeat on left leg
>>
>> Stretching down.Staring with head going down, arms stretching down.Curving
>
>> spine vertebra by vertebra.Touching hands to floor. Hold
>> Slowly reverse order to come up.Head should be the last to come up
>>
>> Repeat sequence again
>>
>> **Clients go around circle & share a favorite stretch or movement with
>> group before guided meditation
>>
>>
>> Guided Meditation (15 minutes)
>>
>>
>> Music: From above selections or any soothing music of your choice for a
>> background effect
>>
>> **Find a comfy place on floor- sitting or lying on back. Group facilitator
>
>> reads a guided meditation emphasizing the breath and rotating various
>> topics weekly such as:
>>
>> #'s 1, 2, 3, 4 are from the book: The Journey Within: A Spiritual Path to
>> Recovery © 1987 Ruth Fishel
>>
>> 1) Relaxation/Breathing Meditation- (p.43-45)- included in packet on
>> following page
>> 2) God Bag Visualization- (p.169-173)- to help send worries/problems
>> up to your higher power
>> 3) Visualization for Goals (p. 164-165)- to help being open & willing
>
>> to visualize the positive
>> 4) Purple Velvet: Visualization for Healing (p. 166-168)-to help
>> relax/unwind and feel peace
>> 5) Reinforce and Strengthen Body Appreciation- appreciating/thanking
>> parts of the body
>> 6) Creating Your Special Place- to help visualize a safe and peaceful
>
>> place
>>
>> Closing Ritual (5 minutes)
>>
>>
>> **After guided meditation clients form a circle and go around sharing what
>
>> they hope for the week. Group closes with 3 deep breaths each
>> symbolically representing the relationship they have with the following:
>>
>> 1) Self: Take deep breath in and out while giving oneself a big hug
>> 2) Others (peers in community, family, & friends): Raising arms in
>> front of them up and down as they breath in and out
>> 3) Higher Power: Allow clients freedom to make any gesture or
>> movement they like as they take a deep breath in and out in order to
>> respect various religious/spiritual beliefs
>>
>> Rev 4/92005
>> By: Suzy Rossol Matheson, MA, ADTR, NCC
>> Phoenix House Keene Ceneter
>> 106 Roxbury Street
>> Keene, NH 03431
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