Marian Chace's Ideas Of Dance Movement Therapy

Dance movement therapy came about during the 1940s after modern dance pioneers changed dance forever. I was after modern dance pioneers like Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and others changed dance from strictly stylized form to free spontaneous movement the encouraged individuality. Marian Chace who was a dance instructor at the time came up with the idea of dance movement therapy. Marian Chace notice in her dance classes what the movement of dance provided for her students. She took interest on how dance allowed her dancer to emote their feeling through movement. Marian Chace did not care about technique. She encouraged her students to focus on feeling the different emotions that they would experience through dance rather than being hanged up on the technique. Marian Chace said her work focused on how her students together as one could work to achieve the state of feeling well, relaxed, and have a sense of good fellowship.

Interested in this ideas of dance movement therapy Marian Chance studied as the Washington school of psychiatry. At the Washington school of

The therapist communicates with patients on his or her problems and sets an achieved goals which are to be reached by the end of the session. In a dance therapy session, the therapist either works one on one with a patient or in a group of people. In the session therapist is either participates with the patient or does not. In the session, the therapist gives the patient a series of instructions. The therapist then observes how the patient move through space, watches his or her body posture, and the therapist also watches have the patient breaths throughout the movement. The therapist while observing the patient take notes.at the end of the session, the therapist reviews the goal that was set at the beginning at the session and evaluates which of the goals the patient has to achieve in the