Author/s: Janet Lemon
Edition:
Janet Lemon is a Canadian dance therapist and movement educator. Her current practice called Movement For Health, is based on an educational-therapeutic model that she developed combining DMT and KMP with Pilates and Alexander Technique, Contact Improvisation and Modern Dance.
Author/s: Janet Lemon
Edition: 2002 Vol. 1 No. 2
Keywords
Canadian dance therapy, dance therapy global network, self psychology, dance therapy in Pilates
This article overviews the various struggles perceived by one dance therapist to establish DMT in Canada including geography, funding and recognition for an emerging profession. The article concludes with the author’s path into dance therapy, through development of her own unique approach combining different body-based modalities into an educational focus for therapy. (pp 7-8)