Essays Tagged: "Marian Chace"

The Role and Benefits of Dance as a Therapy for the Treatment of Mental Illness

reatment of mental illnesses. In order to do this, it will look at the history of DMP in particular Marian Chace, who first used dance as a form of therapy for mental health patients. It will also bri ... ression, "dance is human thought and feeling expressed through the body" (Hanna 1987), but in 1942, Marian Chace, a dancer and choreographer, really began to explore dance as a means of therapy. Chace ...

(14 pages) 2 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts