(Re-) Defining Dance/Movement Therapy Fifty Years Hence

2024-12-09 Classification：Dance Click()
Author：Williams, Janet Lemon

Article Title：(Re-) Defining Dance/Movement Therapy Fifty Years Hence

Abstract：
The cultural turn of the 1980s suggests re-visiting the definition of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) for the purposes of understanding the power the language has in shaping the profession. Such re-examination of the original American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) definition and its historical development reveals an ambivalence that upholds a dualistic view of the profession; a troublesome idea for a practice based in body-mind integration. This paper is not a critique of the ADTA or the field, but is meant to act as a springboard for discourse on how the very description of the work can contribute to level of recognition of the profession.

Keywords:  Definition; Cultural turn; Dualism; Meaning; Language

DOI: 10.1007/s10465-019-09295-6

Source：AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY

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