Term Quotes by Judith Lynne Hanna

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

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

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

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

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

— Judith Lynne Hanna

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

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

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

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

— Judith Lynne Hanna

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

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

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