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...Miss Chace tries to stimulate a satisfying physical exercise, to encourage patients to express their feelings in easy dance movements, and to develop their sense of self through an awareness of their own bodies...
...Miss Chace encourages patients to break away from the group and to dance alone or in small groups. When she dances alone with a patient, she tries to adopt his mood. Joining a woman who was making broad bending movements and said she was scrubbing. Miss Chase started scrubbing too. The woman caught the dance therapist by the waist and the two moved up and down together, closer and closer to the floor. Just before the large housewife began to crush the therapist, the patient stood up, immensely relieved. Open expression, Miss Chace explained, had begun--the woman was admitting...
...rhythm and feeling of these sessions is so strong that even those patients who choose to sit and watch can still feel a part of the group. One woman who had watched for weeks began dancing. Miss Chace expressed pleasure that the woman had joined them. Very reproachful, the patient said that she had been with them for a long time--she was simply "stronger...
...Miss Chace was instrumental in the development of techniques of dance therapy. Recently institutionalized in the form of the American Dance Therapy Association, dance therapy is now used throughout the country. But each therapist, usually a dancer herself, has individualized methods of dealing with a group of the mentally...
Teaching dance in several private New England girls' schools, Mrs. Stoney realized the possibilities of what she termed "the expression of, feeling through movement." She then took "the course in dance therapy, Miss Chace's summer session at the Turtle Bay Music School in New York...