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The Foundation's Educational Mission

Educating the Public

Dance/Movement Therapy is a profession based upon body-mind relationships. Concepts of dance and movement are used psychotherapeutically in a process to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and spiritual integration of clients. Practitioners work with individuals of all ages and with a wide range of emotional and physical problems.


The principles and practice of the dance/movement therapy profession are not well understood by the public or other health and educational professionals. The Marian Chace Foundation (MCF) is dedicated to introducing the power of communicative dance and body awareness as treatment in health and educational settings.


Educating Professionals

The Foundation also works to further educate those in the dance/movement therapy profession. An annual Marian Chace Foundation Lecture Series sponsors scholars whose lectures are then published in the American Journal of Dance Therapy. See at right for past speakers in this series.




Past Marian Chace Lecture Series Speakers Include:


1990 Alma Hawkins, Ph.D.
1991 Ruthanna Boris
1992 Pearl Primus, Ph.D.
1993 Elissa White
1994 Marion North, Ph.D.
1995 Jean Erdman
1996 Beth Kalish, Ph.D. & Irma Dosamantes-Beaudry, Ph.D.
1997 Bill T. Jones
1998 Claire Schmais, Ph.D.
1999 Joan Chodorow, Ph.D.
2000 Deborah Hay
2001 Norma Canner
2002 Penny Lewis, Ph.D.
2003 Muse: Cycle of Life
         Through the Arts
2004 Dianne Dulicai, Ph.D.
2005 Judith Lynne Hanna, Ph.D.
2006 Allegra Fuller Snyder
2007 Marcia B. Levental, Ph.D.
2008 Carolyn Grant Fay
2009 Janet Adler, Ph.D.

These lectures are all available yearly in the American Journal of Dance Therapy. Past issues may be ordered.

 
 

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