Dance Treatment and Abdomen Dance. Laban Movement, analysis and benefits.

Closing Updated on January 25, 2024

A few years previously, I attended a one-day introductory course on dance treatment, organized by Bristol School, England, and an organization based totally in Bristol, known as Dance Voice.

Since I first heard about dance treatment, I’ve always been and fascinated by this self-discipline and I’ve puzzled if a number of of its concepts could also be utilized as abdomen dance treatment.

Dance Movement Treatment

There isn’t a such factor as a doubt that movement in every sort, whether or not or not it is a sport, dance, or a recreation that entails bodily train, is beneficial for the mood and the ideas.

Dance movement treatment makes use of dance to help people with their emotional, social, psychological, bodily and spiritual progress.

Dance treatment is generally aimed towards people with disabilities, or psychological nicely being groups, older people, and each different group of people in need of help.

However, I think about that there is no objective why dance treatment train should not be helpful to the standard explicit individual and to bounce school college students, along with abdomen dancers.

Dance movement treatment is based on the work of Rudolf Laban, a dancer, and choreographer who established a self-discipline of dance analysis and invented a system of dance notation known as Laban Movement Analysis.

Laban’s technique emphasizes the reality that the movement is self-generated, thus expressing the inside state of the dancer.

Dance treatment makes use of numerous actions, to be carried out individually or in groups with or with out props, a number of of which can be used all through a common dance or abdomen dance class.

Laban Movement occasion

Laban Workshop Experience

By means of the one-day workshop I attended, the teacher guided us by a group of assorted actions, paying homage to us making an attempt to particular a mind-set by movement, working in pairs or in groups, using props to create dances, and so forth.

On the end of that day, I felt very utterly glad and relaxed and I felt that I had bonded with the group heaps, undoubtedly reasonably greater than I ever had in each different unusual workshop, along with abdomen dance workshops.

I undoubtedly suppose that some dance treatment actions could very nicely be included in abdomen dance classes, to help performers be a part of with their creativity, bond with others as a gaggle and likewise enhance the quite a few benefits of such a dance.

As I started working in direction of trendy dance, I moreover seen that dance treatment makes use of many strategies which might be utilized in some trendy dance varieties.

As an example, contact improvisation, which is a means developed inside the Nineteen Seventies in America, the place dancers improvise leaning in opposition to 1 one other and using each other’s weight to generate movement, by giving into the alternative explicit individual or pushing in opposition to 1 one other.

Briefly, by exploring weight, gravity and dynamics created by a few explicit individual interacting.

As contact improvisation is based on perception and cooperation between dancers, I can see how its strategies could also be useful for dance treatment, the place people examine to work collectively, discuss, depend upon each other, and open up.

Moreover, respiration strategies and the idea of contraction and launch may be utilized for dance treatment.

If we take into account movement as guided by breath, it may probably actually really feel pretty liberating.

In any case, respiration strategies have been used for tons of of years to relax out and meditate, so associating respiration with movement could also be very useful.

Sculptor Place

One different method I consider from the workshop in Bristol was that one explicit individual acted as a result of the ‘sculptor’ who positions totally different people’s our our bodies collectively to create a kind.

This method I moreover did all through a latest dance class on improvisation.

Moreover, inside the workshop, we tried to bounce with our eyes closed, which helps us be a part of with our physique and our feelings.

Props have been then used heaps along with foulards, balls, and totally different objects.

Abdomen Dance and Self-Expression

The reality that abdomen dance is a kind of dance that leaves numerous room for improvisation, leads me to suppose that it moreover leaves additional room than totally different styles of dance (paying homage to ballet that relies on choreographies)  to self-expression and likewise permits the dancer to someway particular her inside state.

Moreover, some dance treatment actions could also be useful to create a bond between a gaggle of abdomen dancers and to help dancers hook up with their creativity.

Positively, expressing emotions is important, significantly in Egyptian sort abdomen dance typically and significantly for dancers paying homage to Dandesh. So, there’s numerous room in abdomen dancing for emotions in a implies that’s nearly cathartic and therapeutic.

One different dancer whose work is based on expressiveness heaps is Sara Farouk, a British dancer who lives in Cairo and who was initially expert in trendy dance and showing (so this may probably have influenced her curiosity in expressiveness in dance).

Dance treatment, with a objective to be practiced, requires teaching in psychology along with dance and it is a superior self-discipline.

However, I really feel that anyway by way of which we are going to particular our creativity freely is therapeutic, and positively dance helps on this.

Definitely, significantly inside the UK, group dance is rising in reputation with the federal authorities serving to to fund duties of group dance if the organizers can present that the mission helps develop a bunch and is inclusive of people of all ages, means, financial means, and bodily conditions.

Abdomen dancing classes are moreover achieved regionally they normally help improve mood and self-importance.

For additional information on dance treatment, there are a few books on the market on Amazon, paying homage to, amongst others, ‘Dance Movement Treatment’ or ‘Creative Movement and Dance’ by Helen Payne (see below).