Mary Whitehouse: Authentic Movement

 

 I

 

Check In

 

II

Introduction

What is Authentic Movement? Authentic Movement is a completely self-directed form in which individuals discover a movement pathway that offers a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious. Authentic Movement explores the relationship between a mover and a witness, being seen and seeing.


 
 III


Objectives

 Understand the fundamental principles and nature of authentic movement

Explain the need to use authentic movement as a healing practice

Gain an awareness of the role of the dance movement therapist in the mover and witness relationship

Experience the way authentic movement may work in a DMT session

 

 IV

Main Lesson


1

Mary Whitehouse

Video

 
                                    

Question 1

After watching the video above, reflect on Mary Whitehouse's comment on the "concentration and involvement" of her students in "expressing their feelings." 
 
 
2
 
 

Dance/Movement Therapy: Authentic Movement

 
 "The body is the home of feeling; the house of memory. To heal, we need access to it." ~ Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., BC-DMT
 
In this ADTA Talk, Tina Stromsted shares how "Authentic Movement helps us recover forgotten, denigrated and repressed aspects of the self [that] remain buried until conditions are nurturing enough to allow them to surface and grow." Stromsted eloquently describes the process of Authentic Movement, the relationship between mover and witness, and how Authentic Movement is used clinically in dance/movement therapy. To learn more about the profession of dance/movement therapy, please visit www.adta.org.
 
 

Dance/Movement Therapy: Authentic Movement

 

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V
 
A Note to Remember 

 Authentic Movement explores the relationship between a mover and a witness, being seen and seeing.

 

VI

Case Study

 

 Authentic Movement Session 

 


 Authentic Movement session with 

Laurienne Singer and student Elaine (Elle) Smith 

 


Question 2

Write a reflection about this authentic movement session.
 
 

VII

Activity

 

1. Students find their own space/kinesphere and use their own hero's journey as a reference to create a narrative. This narrative will be expressed in movement.

2. Students work with a partner and explore the therapeutic relationship between the client and the dance movement therapist by expressing in movement his/her own hero's journey. 

3. The witness gives the mover feedback as they establish a conversation, a dialogue, an empathetic connection that provides them both new insights.

 

 

VIII

Glossary

 

IX

Sources

Authentic Movement. https://www.authenticmovementinstitute.com/authenticmovement

 

 

 X

Journaling

 

 

XI

 

Students' Work

 

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