The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent males to deal with the stressors of maturation, aggressive personal feelings, and violence in the society at large.… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve conflict, revitalize… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy. — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past,… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings. — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
In contrast to what the women have been told (that they are dumb and ugly) and how they have been controlled with confined strictures,… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified and worked… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension indicated repression… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery. — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance. Awareness that… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore. — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
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