Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The Art of Dance Therapy: Future Directions

Join us this Friday, January 25th at the 92nd St Y 
in New York City  

MovementTalks Dance Lecture Series: 
"The Art of Dance Therapy: Future Directions" 

Presented by Edward Henkel 

With guests: 
Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger 
Patricia Capello 
Tina Erfer 
Elissaveta Iordanova

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Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger, BC-DMT, LCAT
An early pioneer of dance therapy while she performed with the Jean Erdman Theatre of Dance, Dr. Berger teaches dance therapy at New York University, where she was the Director of the Program in Dance Education from 1993–2002. She is also currently the Director of the Dance Therapy Program at the Harkness Dance Center of the 92nd Street Y.

She has created dance therapy training programs in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Sweden, and has taught dance therapy and the Movement Psychodiagnostic Inventory in France, Germany, Greece, Korea, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, and Taiwan. She initiated the International Panel of the ADTA in 1995.

In 2009, Dr. Berger received the Charles Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, the ADTA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007, was inducted into the Dance Library of Israel Hall of Fame in 2005, and she was given the Marian Chace Award for fostering the international growth of dance therapy in 2002. Past President and charter member of the American Dance Therapy Association, Dr. Berger was Director of the Creative Arts Therapies Dept. at Bronx Psychiatric Center 1970–1990, and is a past Chair of the National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies.

A former co-editor of the American Journal of Dance Therapy and editorial board member of the Journal of Dance Education, she now is on the board of Arts in Psychotherapy and the American Journal of Dance Therapy.

An early student of dance therapy pioneers Marian Chace, Irmgaard Bartenieff, and Rhoda Winter Russell, she studied non-verbal communication with Albert Scheflen, Martha Davis, Marion North, Judith Kestenberg and Warren Lamb. and studied dance with, among others, Alwin Nikolais and Martha Graham.

Upcoming MovementTalks in 2013:

April 2013 - Sustainable Arts: Policy, Practice, and Programming. With guests Lise Brenner, Paul Nagle, and Judy Hussie-Taylor

May 2013 - Dance and the American Sacred Cows / Meat and Money. With guests Zeffrey Throwell and Carrie Ahern

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