Health & Dance

Dance

American Journal of Dance Therapy

Berrol, Cynthia
1990     "Dance/Movement Therapy in Head Injury Rehabilitation," Brain Injury 4(3):257-265

Boddy, Janice
1988     “Spirits and Selves in North Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance," American Ethnologist 15(1):4-27

Buckroyd, Julia
2000     The Student Dancer; Emotional Aspects of the Teaching and Learning of Dance. London: Dance Books

Chang, M., & Leventhal, F.
1995    “Mobilizing Battered Women: A Creative Step Forward. In F. J. Levy, with J. P. Fried, & F. Leventhal (eds.), Dance and Other Expressive Art Therapies: When words are not enough. (pp.  59-68). New York, NY: Routledge

Cruz, Robyn, and Cynthia R. Berrol (Eds.)
2004    Dance/Movement Therapists in Action: A Working Guide to Research Options. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishers

Dosamantes-Beaudry, I.
1999   “Divergent Cultural Self  Construals: Implications for the Practice of Dance/movement Therapy,” Arts in Psychotherapy, 26(4), 225-231

Frank, Z.
1997   “Dance and Expressive Movement Therapy: An Effective Treatment for a Sexually Abused Man,” American Journal of Dance Therapy 19(1), 45-61 

Friedson, Steven
1996    Dancing Prophets:  Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Gray, A. E. L.
2001    “The Body Remembers: Dance/movement Therapy With An Adult Survivor of Torture. American Journal of Dance Therapy 23(1):29-43

Guindy, Howaida El, and Claire Schmais
1994     "The Zar: An Ancient Dance of Healing," American Journal of Dance Therapy 16(2):107-120

Halprin, Anna
2000    Dance as a Healing Art, Returning to Health with Movement and Imagery. Mendocino,CA: Life Rhythm

Hamilton, Linda H.
1998    Advice for Dancers: Emotional Counsel and Practical Strategies. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

Hanna, Judith Lynne
1978     "African Dance: Some Implications for Dance Therapy," American Journal of Dance Therapy 2(1):3-15

1983     The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society. Austin and London: University of Texas Press (Choice, outstanding book)

1987     To Dance Is Human: A Theory of Nonverbal Communication. Revised edition. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press (orig. 1979)

1988     Dance, Sex, and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press

1988    "Theories and Realities of Emotion in Performance," Polish Art Studies 9:44-66 and Gestos 3(6):27-51

1990     "Anthropological Perspectives for Dance/Movement Therapy," American Journal of Dance Therapy 12(2):115-126

1990     "Dance and Stress: Good or Bad?" Dance Teacher Now 12(1):27-28, 30, 32, 34, 36

1995    "The Power of Dance: Health and Healing," Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 1(4):323-327

1999    Partnering Dance and Education:  Intelligent Moves for Changing Times.  Champaign, Il: Human Kinetics

1999   "Dance," in David Levinson, James Ponzetti, and Peter Jorgensen (Eds.). Encyclopedia  of Human Emotions, Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, pp. 171-177

2004   “Applying  Anthropological Methods in Dance/Movement Therapy Research," in Robyn Flaum Cruz and Cynthia R. Berrol, eds., Dance/Movement Therapists in Action: A  Working Guide to Research Options. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, pp.144-165

2006     Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress.  Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press

Katz, Richard
1982     Boiling Energy:  Community Healing Among the Kalahari Kung. Cambridge: Harvard University Press

1992     "The Kung Approach to Healing," Parabola 18(1):72-81

Kendall, Laurel
1985     Shamans, Housewives and other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life.  Honolulu:  University of Hawaii Press

Levy, Fran J.
1988     Dance/Movement Therapy: A Healing Art.  Reston, VA:  National Dance Association, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance

Marshall, Lorna
1962     "!Kung Bushman Religious Beliefs," Africa 32:221-252

Messing, Simon D.
1949     "Group Therapy and Social Status in the Zar Cult of Ethiopia," in Culture and Mental Health, M. K. Opler (ed.). New York: The Macmillan Co.

1958     "Group Therapy and Social Status in the Zar Cult of Ethiopia," American Anthropologist 60:1120-1126

Payne, Helen (Ed.)
1992     Dance Movement Therapy: Theory and Practice.  London, New York:  Tavistock/Routledge

Perlman, Susan G., et al.
1990     "Dance-Based Aerobic Exercise for Rheumatoid Arthritis," Arthritis Care Research 3(1):29-35

Schoenfeld, Linda
1986    "Dance Does It," Dancemagazine 55(5):131, May

Torrey, E. Fuller
1967     "The Zar Cult in Ethiopia," International Journal of Social Psychiatry," 13(3):216-223

Wilson, Andrew Abrahams
1991   "Rehearsals in the Anthropology of Performance and the Performance of Anthropology:  Ritual, Reflexivity, and Healing in a Dance by Men Challenging AIDS," Los Angeles:  Master's Thesis University of Southern California

Dance and Physical Injury

Clippinger, Karen Sue
2007     Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology: Principles and Exercises for Improving Technique and Avoiding Common Injuries. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics

Howse, Justin and Moira McCormack
2000     Dance Technique and Injury Prevention. New York: Theatre Arts Books/Routledge

Solomon, Ruth and John Solomon
2001    Dance Medicine & Science Bibliography, 2nd ed. Andover, NJ: J. Michael Ryan

See www.iadms.org International Association for Dance Medicine and Science

Suggested Videos

Dibbell-Hope, Sandy, Moving Toward Health.  University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning.  28 minutes.  Documentary that demonstrates the use of the dance therapy form "Authentic Movement" in a support group for survivors of breast cancer, 1992

Morrell, Karen and Steven Friedson.  Prophet Healers of Northern Malawi.  University of Washington's African Encounters Series PC 45, Seattle, Washington, 98195.  30 minutes.  Healers use a divination trance achieved through music and dance, 1992

Willke, Claudia, Come Dance with Me.  University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning (2176 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704).  66 minutes. Profile of the movement therapist Trudi Schoop, 1992

Wilson, Andy Abrahams, Positive Motion.  University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning. 37 minutes, color 1992, Catalog #38151

General Health and Healing

Atkinson, R. D., G. Martin & D. W. Sue (Eds.)
1983     Counseling American Minorities:  A Cross-cultural Perspective (2nd ed.).  Dubuque, Iowa:  William C. Brown 

Good, Mary-Jo Del Veccho, Paul E. Brodwin, Bryon J. Good, and Arthur Kleinman (Eds.)
1992     Pain as Human Experience:  An Anthropological Perspective.  Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Paul E. Brodwin, Bryon J. Good, and Arthur Kleinman (Eds.). Berkeley:  University of California Press

Kane, Jeff
1991    Be Sick Well:  A Healthy Approach to Chronic Illness. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

Morris, David B.
1991     The Culture of Pain.  Berkeley:  University of California Press

Nichter, M., & Lock, M. (Eds.)
2002    New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Charles Leslie. New York: Routledge