Tuesday 10 January 2017

Certificate Course - Creative Movement Therapy at Delhi

CMTAI presents Certificate Course - Creative Movement Therapy Delhi 2017



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)


1) What is Creative Movement / Dance Therapy?
Creative Movement Therapy is a therapeutic modality, which uses natural and authentic movement to find a balance of emotional, social, cognitive and physical wellbeing in individuals.

2) What are the timings and duration of the course?
The course is scheduled between 9.30 AM and 6.30 PM daily, 10 days every month:
- April  15th to 24th  2017
- May 20th  to 29th  2017
- June 17th  to 26th  2017
Note: The total number of hours for this course is 270 including 10 hours supervision and 10 hours personal therapy and to achieve certification with 72 hours research based internship with supervision. 

Monday 9 January 2017

Dance-in-Education (DIE): Importance of Dance in Educational settings

Dance-in-Education (DIE)
(An excerpt from a longer article)

Tripura Kashyap
Movement therapist/Dance Educator/Choreographer


Dance in this context has become a ‘performing’ art, completely focused on technique and being performed by a select ‘trained’ few. Though the creative as well as therapeutic potential of dance is enormous, Indian dance is largely considered to be purely a ‘performance-based art’ whose sole purpose is entertainment. Continuous performance pressure, shifts the focus from children exploring, playing with and discovering movements to mastering group as well as body coordination, learning stage presence, precision of movement and imitation skills.

This is the dominant aspect of one end of the dance-in-education spectrum. On the other end, there are a handful of alternative schools in India like the ‘Center for Learning’, Aditi Mallya School (Bangalore, Karnataka), and ‘Aman Sethu’ School in Pune (Maharashtra state), among a few others, where classes have lesser number of children. There are 20 - 25 children in each class and it is in these schools that dance-in-education has taken shape.  Rajyashree Ramamurthy, a dance educator at Aman Sethu School, Pune, says “Dance at our school is being used more in a process-oriented manner instead of children having to produce a performance piece or a ‘product’ to be consumed”.