Word: chace
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Dance therapy was started in 1942 by Marian Chance at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. Formerly a professional dancer with the Denishawn troupe, Miss Chace began to give lessons in the Washington area in the thirties. Finding that dancing was emotionally calming to her patients, she began in 1942 working with patients at St. Elizabeth's. In 25 years, Miss Chace developed dance therapy into a professionally recognized treatment and made St. Elizabeth's the nation's center for dance therapy...
...Miss Chace enters a ward where isolated patients sit idly around unaware of others or refusing to recognize them. Her goal is to free the patients from their tightly constructed defenses through dance--to emerge from their separation into a unified dancing group. Starting the record player, usually with a restful waltz, she asks each patient to dance with the group. The most difficult part of the job is recruiting the first few patients...
...patient is never forced to dance, Sometimes inviting gestures are employed. Sometimes a patient is won over by the group leader's sensitive response to his mood. In one session Miss Chace approached a woman who was shouting that people were sticking pins into her backside. The dance therapist, assuming the patient's indignant mood, countered that it must be good for her--or else they wouldn't do it--and that dancing would be good for her too. Would she join them...
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Another sophomore, Bob Panoff, debuts as a heavyweight against Phil Corell. Last year Crimson heavyweight Tack Chace had to win the final match to preserve what became a 19-13 Harvard...