Relationships: Facets Involving Interrelatedness in Dance/ Movement Therapy on Multiple Levels

Date and Time:

Thursday, April 29, 2021

8- 9 AM EST

Location:

Conducted Virtually Online in collaboration with

Codarts University of the Arts

Kruisplein 26

3012 CC Rotterdam

Netherlands

Description:

How do we as dance/movement psychotherapists maintain a fresh and balanced presence during these stressful times that are affecting each of us worldwide? As we are navigating an international coronavirus pandemic, political strife and social injustices the arts have become more relevant than ever for self-expression and renewal. As we move within online platforms to do our work, dance/movement psychotherapists have to be even more resourceful to continue to nourish ourselves and stay active and attuned to our bodies. In this experiential workshop you will explore a meditation Dr. Tortora created from her Embodied Lyrical Mindfulness series called Embodied Listening Embodied Sensing. You can use this activity for yourself as well as a therapeutic intervention to help center, ground and support deeper attunement and discovery along the healing journey.

Instructor:

Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Dr. Tortora is a board certified dance movement therapist, Laban Nonverbal Movement Analyst, and specialist in the field of infancy mental health and development. Her expertise in early childhood development and the importance of early relationships inform her psychotherapeutic work across the life span. Dr. Tortora has a private dance movement psychotherapy practice, in New York City and Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York. Dr. Tortora offers training programs and lectures about her dance therapy and nonverbal video analysis work with infants, children and families, at national and international professional meetings and universities.

She is on the board of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.

Dr Tortora has been featured on “Good Morning America” and Eyewitness Five-O’Clock News, WABC –TV; Women’s Day magazine; highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article and book titled What the Dog Saw and other adventures; has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work with children, parent-infant dyads, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; has twice been guest editor of the Zero to Three Journal; and has a book with Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company titled The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.

Dr. Tortora graduated with honors from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Tufts University specializing in child development, education and psychology; received her dance movement therapy masters degree at New York University; and her doctorate with a specialization in infancy/early childhood development, psychology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University. 

She has done extensive study and training in the field of infancy and early childhood research, development, education, communication and intervention through the Zero to Three Institute and Dr. Stanley Greenspan. She has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler & Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Dr Tortora is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and Kestenberg Movement Profiler.

Registration:

https://www.codarts.nl/en/events/25-years-dance-therapy-online-conference/