Mary Whitehouse: Authentic Movement

 

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Check In

 

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Introduction

What is Authentic Movement? Authentic Movement is a completely self-directed form in which individuals discover a movement pathway that offers a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious. Authentic Movement explores the relationship between a mover and a witness, being seen and seeing.

 

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Objectives

 Understand the fundamental principles and nature of authentic movement

Explain the need to use authentic movement as a healing practice

Gain an awareness of the role of the dance movement therapist in the mover and witness relationship

Experience the way authentic movement may work in a DMT session

 

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Main Lesson

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Mary Whitehouse

Video

 

                                    

Question 1

After watching the video above, reflect on Mary Whitehouse's comment on the "concentration and involvement" of her students in "expressing their feelings." 

 

 

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Dance/Movement Therapy: Authentic Movement

 

 "The body is the home of feeling; the house of memory. To heal, we need access to it." ~ Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., BC-DMT

 

In this ADTA Talk, Tina Stromsted shares how "Authentic Movement helps us recover forgotten, denigrated and repressed aspects of the self [that] remain buried until conditions are nurturing enough to allow them to surface and grow." Stromsted eloquently describes the process of Authentic Movement, the relationship between mover and witness, and how Authentic Movement is used clinically in dance/movement therapy. To learn more about the profession of dance/movement therapy, please visit www.adta.org.

 

 

Dance/Movement Therapy: Authentic Movement

 Question 2

Re-state in your own words the process of authentic movement.

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A Note to Remember 

 Authentic Movement explores the relationship between a mover and a witness, being seen and seeing.

 

VI

Case Study

 

 Authentic Movement Session 

 

 Authentic Movement session with 

Laurienne Singer and student Elaine (Elle) Smith 

 

Question 3

Write a reflection about this authentic movement session.

 

 

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Activity

 Students establish a discussion about Whitehouse's statement about "one moving" or "being moved" when dancing.

 

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Glossary

 

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Sources

Authentic Movement. https://www.authenticmovementinstitute.com/authenticmovement

 

 

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Journaling

 

 

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Students' Work