Judith Lynne Hanna Quotes

#1. Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified and worked through, and appropriate adult roles and behavior tried out.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#2. Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#3. The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#4. Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#5. Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#6. Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

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#7. In contrast to what the women have been told (that they are dumb and ugly) and how they have been controlled with confined strictures, the dance class is a safe place in which the women have choices and can improve their self-concept.

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#8. In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.

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#9. It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

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#10. Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#11. In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance. Awareness that dance is not just entertainment but also a form of education and healing may reverse the trend.

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