Press Release Summary = Contact Improvisation Dance is a dance form ideally suited to people with disabilities.
Press Release Body = What is the aim of this form of therapy? It is a quest for self-healing through bodily movement. When we tune-in to the deepest well-springs of our Being we move with a grace, rhythm and beauty which is unique to each individual. Through this \"tuning-in\" process we learn new aspects of ourselves and others without the need for the spoken word. We can attain through this means - calm, peace, spiritual upliftment, self-confidence and greater physical energy for ourselves and others.
Age is irrelevant. Even if participants have a restricted range of movement or are confined to a wheelchair, it is still possible for them to join in because everyone moves within their own level of energy output. You can dance with your fingers or toes - with whatever part of the body has some movement.
Here is what Bruce of Berkeley California writes on Contact Improvisation: A Dance of Equality:-
\"At the age of 17, I broke my neck while diving, which resulted in paralysis affecting my body from my chest down. While on a March for Peace in Central America, I learned about contact improvisation and discovered through it that people with and without disabilities could dance together equally. Contact improvisation allows someone disabled to become so engaged in the contact and balance with another dancer, that the sensation supersedes the superficial image. Even though I have limited voluntary movement throughout my body, I can create coordinated movement, using the sensation in my body and skeleton.
The focus of the dance is on the conversation of body movement between two people. Each person listens through that person\'s own body to the other dancer\'s movement. As well, each person is responsible for his or her own safety in the dance and trusts that the other will always be in the present moment, listening.
For me, it\'s important to create motion and dance that naturally emerges from a disabled person\'s body. I encourage people with disabilities to find their own personal expressions of movement from their own bodies rather than imitating dance styles like ballet or ballroom dancing and movements that come from non-disabled bodies. When persons with disabilities try to perform in contemporary dance styles typically performed by the non-disabled, audiences judge them as making a nice effort. However, when persons with disabilities create dances which present the authentic movement of their own bodies they will find that the audience will appreciate them as true artists. \" Further information:- http://www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com
Web Site = http://www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com
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