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Dance therapy or dance movement therapy is a form of expressive therapy, the psychotherapeutic use of movement (and dance) for treating emotional, cognitive, social, behavioral and physical conditions. Many professionals specialize in dancer's health such as in providing complementary or remedial training or improving mental discipline.
Anca Giurchescu née Ciortea (19 December 1930 – 4 April 2015) was a Romanian researcher of folk dance, and an ethnochoreologist, one of the founders of the discipline. Born in Bucharest to a family formerly from Translylvania, she lived in that region as a child. Entering university, she studied dance at the National Institute of Physical ...
A physical culture practice, informally known as "physie" (pronounced "fizzy") developed in Australia in the 19th century and continues to this day, especially for women. It combines elements of march, rhythmic gymnastics and dance, with a focus on good posture and is aimed at young girls and women, from pre-school age to seniors. [5]
Traditional Valencian dances. A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. For example, ritual dances or dances of ritual origin are not considered to be folk dances. Ritual dances are usually called "religious dances" because of their purpose.
She organized large folk dance festivals for the city's schoolchildren and adults, [8] arranged dance music for recordings, [9] and researched European folk dances with her sister, Emma Howells Burchenal. From 1916 to 1922, she was a "special national representative" of the War Workers Community Service.
She was national dance chair of the American Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. [10] [11] She was general director of the first California Folk Dance Festival, held in Ojai in 1946, [12] She taught at the first several Idyllwild Folk Dance Workshops, in 1953, [13] 1954 and 1955, [14] and at the Stockton Folk Dance Camp. [15]
At this point, dance education was part of physical education. Dance was mainly taught to females until legislation required educators to place focus on coeducational sports, marking the start of expanding dance into many realms. [14] The early 20th century lacked a unified standard approach to dance with very few written resources of teaching ...
The United States of America is the home of the hip hop dance, swing, tap dance and its derivative Rock and Roll, and modern square dance (associated with the United States of America due to its historic development in that country—twenty three U.S. states have designated it as their official state dance or official folk dance) and one of the major centers for modern dance.