Dance

Moveme
nt
Therapy

By: Edward

Rubio-Cazares

and

Melanie Meza

What is Dance Movement Therapy?

(DMT)
Dance movement therapy
uses dance to promote
psychological and
physical wellness. It
combines many different
vocabularies of dance to
form a regimen for a
group of patients directed
by an instructor. It is
commonly used to treat
depression and
immobilizing disorders.

History of Dance
Movement
Therapy(DMT)

Dance rituals have been used

therapeutically for thousands of years, it's
resurgence came in 1950's when the
American Dance Therapy Association was
founded by Marian Chance. However, it
wasn't until the 1970's that therapists began
to use dance as a form of psychotherapy.

DMT Process

Four Stages Preparation,

Incubation, Illumination, and
Evaluation.
Preparation - Consists of
warm-up exercises.
Incubation - Patients focus
on relaxing and awareness.
Illumination Patients learn
the movements and their
significance.
Evaluation Finishing the
session while processing
what they've gained.

A Session of DMT

Movements in DMT

Movements from
different dances are
incorporated into the
therapy depending on
the needs of the patients
in the session. These
movements come from
dances such as the
waltz, ballroom, modern,
line, tango, and the
foxtrot.

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