Dance therapy and authentic movement.
- Date:
- 2009
- Videos
About this work
Description
DVD containing two of Janet Adler's films. Looking For Me (30 min.) shows dance sessions between Janet and two autistic girls, aged two and five. Still Looking (29 min.) was made 20 years after Looking for Me and shows Adler's work on Authentic Movement, an embodied awareness practice. The film features the spontaneous movement experiences of eight professional women.
Publication/Creation
2009.
Physical description
1 DVD (58 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm
Contributors
Notes
Janet Adler has been a dance / movement therapist since 1963. In 1981 she founded and directed the Mary Starks Whitehouse Institute where Authentic Movement was studied and practised. She has published two books: Arching Backwarad (1995) and Offering from the Conscious Body (2002).
Creator/production credits
Looking for me: Directed by Virginia Bartlett, music by Carol Saunders. Written and narrated by Janet Adler. Still Looking: Directed by Yasha Aginski, music by Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, written and narrated by Janet Adler.
Copyright note
Expressive Media, Inc. 2009.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores7230D