Tracing the Roots of Infant, Child and Adolescent DMT- Part 2: 18th Early Childhood Forum
Date & Time:
Pre-recorded and available on-demand to ADTA conference participants
Thursday, October 15- Sunday, October 18, 2020
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available online.
Course Description
This forum continues to trace the history of infant, child and adolescent DMT from its origins to its growing applications today. It highlights five early innovators who exemplify diversity and multiculturalism in their ethnicity, methods and populations serviced. They discuss their influences on DMT with children, families and adults nationally and internationally as they developed their methods as either founding DMT mentors or highlighting those early mentors they worked with. These early mentors include Blanche Evan, Liljan Espenak and Dr. Baba Chuck Davis. Opening her school in 1934, Evan’s innovative approach to creative dance for children emphasized dance improvisation balanced with age appropriate physical development. Espenak, from Norway, worked at Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital. She developed one of the earliest DMT training programs as well as seven Movement Diagnostic Tests, based on her work with developmentally delayed children, grounding her work with the concept “Motion causes emotion to flow”. Davis, founding artistic director of DanceAfrica always spoke of the therapeutic and healing components of dance and the arts. Collectively, the presenters have expanded the reach of their work in over 32 countries, providing training and treatment in: Asia, Australia and Oceania, North, Central and South America, Europe and Eastern Europe. They discuss how they and their mentors teach and provide culturally sensitive work servicing diverse populations across cultures. Their focus includes: marginalized populations; treatment from diagnosis to plan implementation; creating a developmental model integrating elements from emotional, physical, and psychological imperatives which unfold into a wholistic focus of healing and change; inpatient, outpatient, multi- family groups, homeless, from age three to one hundred and one with a wide range of clinical and medical diagnoses; and experiencing the joy of dance. Through experientials and videos each presenter describes their contributions and those that influenced their personal and professional journey.
About the Instructors
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC (moderator) is the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue, a creative arts psychotherapy practice in Cold Spring, NY and NYC, specializing in parent- infant/child and family therapy; trauma; medical illness; and adult chronic pain. She is the International Medical Creative Arts Spokesperson for the Andréa Rizzo Foundation, having created and continuing to be the senior dance/movement therapist for pediatric patients at Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NYC, since 2003. She received the 2010 Marian Chace Distinguished Dance Therapist award from the ADTA. She teaches in Europe, South America, New Zealand, Israel and Asia; holds faculty positions in the USA, The Netherlands, Chech Republic, Argentina and China; offers the Ways of Seeing International Webinar Training Program for dance/movement therapists and allied professionals; has published numerous papers about her work; and her book, The Dancing Dialogue: Using the communicative power of movement with young children is used extensively in dance/movement therapy training programs internationally.
Bonnie Bernstein
Dr. Nana Koch
Dr. Theresa Howard
Dr. Marcia Leventhal
Registration
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