Alligning Somatic Therapies and Dance Education
Saturday, July 20, 2024
5:15- 6:15 PM
Location:
Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
53A Chambers Street
New York, NY 10007
Course Description:
TBD.
About the Instructors
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC has a full-time private practice in Cold Spring, New York 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.
Sandi Stratton-Gonzalez, MA is Manager of the Arnhold Support Program for Dance Educators, offering mentorship, professional learning, and other resources to NYC Public School’s dance educators. Sandi teaches Dance for Children with Disabilities for the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), is a founding member of the NDEO Dance and Disabilities Advisory Committee and writes curriculum for the P-12 dance classroom for the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL). For over 20 years (1999-2019), Sandi was the Dance Specialist at The Children’s School (PS 372) in Brooklyn, the first fully inclusive public school in the United States. There, she developed a sequential PK -5 curriculum, chaired the Arts Committee, and administered the school’s extensive enrichment programs. Sandi is co-author (with C. Gallant and D. Duggan) of Dance Education for Diverse Learners: A Special Education Supplement to the Dance Blueprint and has been published in Dance: Current Selected Research Volume 7 and Dance Education in Practice. Sandi taught Dance in Elementary Education at Hofstra University (2008-2018) and has mentored countless educators as a Cooperating Teacher for Hofstra and New York University. Prior to working in dance education Sandi was the founding Artistic Director and a Resident Choreographer of Soundance Repertory Company (SRC), 1984 – 1999.