Today, on April 29, the International Dance Day is being celebrated to highlight the purpose of dance as an expressive art form performed through rhythmic and flowing movements of the body and its limbs. Dance can be learned as a discipline. But, applied dance can be used for non-cognitive gains, such as confidence and esteem building, language learning, and art-integrated learning as well as a a therapy.
Clinical 'Dance Movement Therapy' (DMT) is a form of upcoming one-to-one based treatment for a wide variety of illnesses, disorders, disabilities and dis-functionalities. Depending on the diagnosis and the analysed needs of a client, the dance-movement intervention is designed for psychotherapeutic use of movement to support client’s cognitive, emotional, sensory and motor functions.
American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) defines DMT as the 'psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration of the individual, for the purpose of improving health and well-being'.
As a modality of the creative arts therapies, DMT is designed and procedurally administered to effectively link movement and emotion as a remedial measure in clinical setting.
A DMT expert has to be certified and licensed to use it for healing and treatment of the diagnosed client.
ABC poem on DMT
A: Assumption is that the body and mind are inextricably connected through kinaesthetic intelligence
B: Benefits of movement for treating both physical and mental illnesses have been tested
C: Combine specific dance steps with mime, folk dances, classical dances as therapeutic intervention
D: Dance-based movements make it possible to access and heal the deepest parts of the psyche
E: Experimenting with the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support cognitive, emotional, and fine or gross motor functions of the body
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