Certified English Drama Dance Therapy Expressive Movement

Certified English Drama Dance Therapy Expressive Movement

Expressive movement is at the heart of the practice of dance/movement therapy, a profession that integrates both the art and science of dance/movement and psychotherapy.

Dance/movement therapy is defined as "the psychotherapeutic use of movement in a process which furthers the emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration of the individual"

As body and psyche interplay in expressive movement, body and psyche also interplay in movement throughout human development to inform an individual's experience, interaction, and functioning.

The dance/movement therapist applies this holistic understanding of movement in a therapy relationship process to foster growth and health.

The situation created by the novel coronavirus disease has affected education worldwide, resulting in the urgent need for programs that promote physical activity at home and responsible use of internet-connected devices.

This work provides a didactic proposal to perform Expressive Movement & Creative Dance (EMCD) at home adaptable to distinct educational levels and useful as a valuable online or face-to-face education experience even when the coronavirus crisis ends. The proposal is based on the Laban Movement Analysis, the Theatre of the Oppressed, and Lipdub.

It seeks to develop students’ own artistic body language, emotional intelligence, healthy physical activity and social awareness. Furthermore, it intends to promote the creation of a new social movement (#VIDLOP) using art and popular media as empowering and democratic channels for building a better world.

In conclusion, this may be a promising proposal to develop the EMCD and human awareness in challenging scenarios and distinct educational settings.

The Expressive Movement & Creative Dance (EMCD) is a discipline where the person uses his/her body in an own, conscious, creative and aesthetic way to express and communicate his/her inner world (e.g., thoughts, feelings, sensations or ideas)

The EMCD practice gathers physical, mental, psychological and social aspects, for what it confers to the body an integral value.

Due to these characteristics, this discipline is a school PE’s curriculum content that is instructed in schools around the whole world.

Moreover, it is imparted in some university degrees and college courses, vocational schools or community projects, among other examples.

As well as other kinds of physical activity practices such as football, basketball or handball, EMCD practice implies physical contact with class partners.

However, many things have changed since the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worldwide propagation (WHO, 2020b), which has become a pandemic (WHO, 2020a). One of the policies that has been implanted is physical distancing to slow transmission and release the burden on health systems, affecting the education of 80% of children worldwide.

In many countries, schools and universities have had to close their buildings and passed from a face-to-face teaching in a school classroom to a digitized teaching at home.

These changes represent a great challenge for physical activity practice and a forecast of obesity increase, being urgent to make Physical Education a priority in schools.

Concerning EMCD, previous research showed that physical activity professionals, despite of knowing and positively valuing EMCD’s benefits, still presented confusion regarding to its planning and teaching.

That confusion was generally caused by the feeling of not being qualified enough in the subject, what was translated into a poor teaching or, directly, into a non-teaching

Therefore, if the current living situation due to the COVID-19 seriously limits physical activity practice, what is happening with the EMCD instruction, if it already had teaching deficiencies before this? Because EMCD instruction is not just telling students to create a dance or to follow a YouTube Zumba class without further ado.

Hence, in accordance with the EMCD’s characteristics, objectives and contents, the objective of the present article is threefold: (1) to provide an EMCD didactic proposal to perform at home, adaptable to different educational levels, and useful as well as a valuable online or face-to-face education experience even when the coronavirus crisis subsides; (2) to offer a novel and promising art practice as means of expression and social movement and (3) to serve as an EMCD’s guide for educational professionals and any person interested.

Dance Therapy Movement for patients, caregivers etc and Varied English lessons

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What you will learn

• English lessons
• Dance Therapy
• Movement

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Level: All Levels

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Sarita Wariyer