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Nov
WAEF 2023 Proposals Review Result
The World Arts and Embodiment Forum (WAEF 2023)
Accepted Proposals
(Updated Nov 23, 2022)
Check www.waef2023.org for program & registration
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Authentic Movement Summit
No. | Title | Speaker(s) | Country | Topic |
1 | Seminar with Janet Adler | Janet Adler | USA | Theory┋Wellbeing ┋Spirituality |
2 | Desire – An awakening into the deep body (presentation) | Brinda Sarah Jacob | India | Community┋Performance ┋Spirituality |
3 | Closing my eyes to see you | Sarka Bartuskova, Boserup Friskole | Czech Republic & Denmark | Education┋Clinical application |
4 | Effects of a Single Movement Intervention on Psychiatric Patients with Depression | Zoey Cheng Zengyan | China | Clinical application |
5 | MoverWitness interdisciplinarity | Eila Goldhahn | UK | Theory┋Ecology ┋Performance |
6 | Do not look at me | Monika Ptasinska | UK & Slovakia | Clinical application ┋Professional practice |
7 | Authentic Movement and Zen Practice | Ding Jie | China | History┋Theory ┋Professional practice |
8 | TI VEDO _ I SEE YOU A collective journey in Authentic Movement |
Collective of the AM Master 2019-2020, ATI | Italy | Performance┋Professional practice |
9 | Honoring the dancing female body, embodiment of soul and spirit of the time | Antonella Monteleone | Italy | Clinical application┋Social justice┋Spirituality |
10 | Overcoming Social Isolation Through Arts In Virtual Communities (Authentic Movement Solo Groups) | Olga (Olesya) Bondareva | Canada | Community┋Wellbeing ┋Professional practice |
11 | Clarity of Verbalization: The importance of language in the practice of Authentic Movement | Yan Katee Shen | China | Professional practice |
12 | The Knowing Body: direct experience, embodied ways of knowing, embodied language and development of embodied witness consciousness | Aleksandra Schuller | Slovenia | Theory┋Clinical application┋Spirituality |
13 | The discipline of authentic movement and the development of the ecological self | Helen Payne | UK | Ecology┋Clinical practice┋ Community┋Wellbeing |
14 | DreamDancing: Engaging the Opposites through Authentic Movement” | Tina Stromsted | USA | Clinical application |
15 | Blending Internal Family Systems (IFS) with the Discipline of Authentic Movement(DAM) | Susan E Cahill, Betina Waissman | USA & Spain | Theory┋Clinical application ┋Spirituality |
16 | Authentic Movement Inspirations and influences on the development of Physical Storytelling | E. Connor Kelly | New Zealand | Community┋Wellbeing |
17 | Expanding the edges of synchrony and attunement | Terese Gjernes and Riki Bloom | USA | Theory┋Clinical application ┋Social justice |
18 | Invitation to Find A Bit of Witch Power in Your Body: A workshop for female identified persons | Annie Blair | USA | Social justice |
19 | The body knows: harvesting the essence of gesture integrating meditation and aspects of Authentic Movement | Susan Bauer | USA | Wellbeing┋Spirituality ┋Professional practice |
20 | Ebb and Flow: continuity of experience through Art and Authentic Movement | Rosa Maria Govoni & Mimma Della Cagnoletta | Italy | Wellbeing┋Professional practice |
21 | A Roundtable Discussion (International Group of Practitioners/Teachers of Authentic Movement) | Rosa Maria Govoni, Tina Stromsted, Helen Payne, Soraya Jorge, Marcia Plevin, Yael Barkai, Irina Biryukova | Brasil, Israel, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, UK, US | Other |
22 | An Evolution of Embodied Consciousness: Celebrating Janet Adler’s New Book | Paula Sager & Bonnie Morrissey | USA | History┋Community ┋Spirituality |
23 | Authentic Movement – An Entry Point to Symptom and Chronic Illness | Elyn Selu | USA | Clinical application ┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice |
Creative Movement Summit
1 | Be-coming Tree. Live streamed transnational project building global resilience through embodied arts | Jatun Risba, Danièle Minns, O. Pen Be (P. Best) | England, Ireland, Slovenia | Community ┋Ecology ┋Performance |
2 | Discover Moving Nature: Movement Activities Resource for Care-Givers and Professionals | Jordine Cornish | Australia/ Israel | Clinical application ┋Community ┋Wellbeing |
3 | Creative resources in times of fear and uncertainty | Maria Elena Garcia | Italy | Education ┋Wellbeing |
4 | The creative process in the time of Covid-19 on the example of choreopoetry with creative movement | Mojca Kasjak, Alenka Vidrih | Slovenia | Preformance |
5 | Localization Practice of Children’s Creative Dance Course – Research on the Teaching Practice of Outside School Dancing Activity Class for Lower Grades in the View of the New Curriculum Standard | Chen Li | China | Education┋Professional practice |
6 | Moving on the bridge between Creative Movement and Dance Movement Therapy: an inquiry of their similarities and differences in training and practice | Marcia Plevin, Joan Wittig | Italy/USA | Education┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice |
7 | Merging Science with the Sacred : Self-care through Somatics, Dance and the Spiritual Wisdom of our Indigenous Ancestors | Helene Su | UK | Ecology┋Wellbeing┋Spirituality |
8 | Creative Movement applied to dancers: testimony of a didactic path | Patrizia Macagno | Italy | History┋Education |
9 | Creative movement and conducting for students of music education | Riccardo Lombardo | Italy | Education┋Professional practice┋Music |
10 | The sense of (creative) movement: Possible interactions/integrations between Creative Movement and Philosophy | Simona Donato | Italy | Education┋Ecology┋Philosophy |
11 | Through actions of the body we can develop the longest sustaining memories. | Tang Wanling | China | Education┋Performance┋Professional practice |
12 | Play and creativity in adulthood through the Creative Movement Gracia-Plevin Method® | Tiziana Giansante | Italy | Education┋Wellbeing |
13 | Creative Dance as Experiential Learning in State Primary Education: The Potential Benefits for Children | Helen Payne | UK | Theory┋Education┋Professional practice |
14 | Dancing through Landscape | Julia Morozova | The Netherlands | Education┋Ecology |
15 | [Video] Path to creativity: a story of an experience with children during the lockdown | Gea Lucetti | Italy | Education┋Wellbeing |
16 | Embodied architecture – a new perspective of the life space | Elisabetta Leodori | Italy | Community┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice |
17 | The Body as Felt, Known, Poetic Place. A songline of eco-relationship with all sentience through image and dance improvisation. | Narelle Carter-Quinlan | Australia | Ecology┋Wellbeing┋Spirituality |
18 | Body awareness and movement for skills-based learning and self-care in higher education: a model based on Dance Movement Therapy | Rosa-María Rodríguez-Jiménez | Spain | Education┋Wellbeing┋Soft skills development |
19 | Dance Ability® – An inclusive dance practice to break through isolation! | Fabian Chyle- Silvestri | Germany | Community┋Performance┋Professional practice |
20 | Reviewing the Creative Dialogue Project: Using Online Creative Arts Improvisations across Countries and Cultures during the COVID Pandemic | Steve Harvey, E. Connor Kelly, Tinting Song, Si Wang | New Zealand/China | International Crisis |
21 | Minds in Motion: Creative Movement as a Language for Learning | Susan Griss | USA | Education |
22 | Changing Flow states through connective dance/movement practices in the Parkinson’s community. | Melanie Brierley | UK | Community┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice |
23 | Mettler-based Creative Dance: Cultivating Individual Expression and Collective Dance-Making | Mary Ann Brehm | USA | Education┋Community┋Wellbeing |
24 | The Training, Practice and Application of Creative Movement in different realities | Steve Harvey, Conner Kelly, Susan Griss, Mariaelena Garcia, Penny Best, Chen Li, Rosamaria Rodriguez, Xiong Yin | Italy, UK, Spain, US, New Zealand, Argentina, China | Education┋Community┋Wellbeing |
25 | The Regenerative Body | Elikem Kunutsor | Ghana | Performance┋Wellbeing┋Spirituality |
LBMS (Laban Bartenieff Movement System) Summit
1 | Presentation: Exploring Rudolf Laban’s Effort and Space as planes of consciousness | Dr Juliet Chambers-Coe | UK | Theory |
2 | Bartenieff, Kestenberg, and Lamb: A Triumvirate of Minds | Carol-Lynne Moore | USA | History |
3 | Laban’s women’: the silent bodies of knowledge | Juliet Chambers-Coe | UK | History ┋Social justice |
4 | Examining the Position of Choreosophy in Laban Theory and its Contemporary Significance for Society | Lin Wang | China | Theory ┋Community ┋Wellbeing |
5 | A Thematic Exploration of Space Effort As A Tool To Manage Healthy Relationships and Boundaries. | Rotem Hornedo | USA / Israel | Clinical application ┋Wellbeing ┋Professional practice |
6 | Space research of Standard Dance under the concept of “Space Harmony” | Shaobo Liu | China | Education ┋Performance ┋Professional practice |
7 | In her footsteps: Irmgard’s Walk through history | Susan Lynn Wiesner | USA | History |
8 | A Kinesthetic Empathy Approach to 21st Century Ballet Training: Integrating LBMS and Research in the Cognitive Sciences | Shannon Cuykendall | Canada | Education ┋Social justice ┋Professional practice |
9 | The application of LBMS for the major of Dance choreography in Chinese university | Dan, LIU | China | History ┋Clinical application ┋Professional practice |
10 | On Transversality: Ullmann, infrastructures, ethics | Alexandra Baybut | UK | History ┋Theory |
11 | The Propagation Path of Laban’s Movement Theory in China ( 1940s-1980s ) | PENG Xiaoxi | China | History ┋Theory ┋Social justice |
12 | “Re-Imagining Laban: Dynamic Transformations in Contemporary Dance Practice” | Alison Curtis-Jones | UK | Education ┋Performance ┋Others 〖Movement/Dance Training, Creative Practice〗 |
13 | LBMS in decolonial educational actions in Brazil | Lilian Freitas Vilela | Brasil | Education ┋Community |
14 | Advancing Innovations: The Relevance of Choreological Practice for Performance, Analysis and Wellbeing. | Alison Curtis-Jones | UK | Education ┋Performance ┋Wellbeing |
15 | Movement Pattern Analysis – An assessment in its own right. Getting to the core of things. | Beverley Dunn | USA | Spirituality ┋Professional practice ┋Leadership |
16 | Letter to the field | Camila Simonin Lima de Moura | Brazil | History ┋Performance ┋Social justice |
17 | Finding space: internal-external, body-mind dialogues in dance practice | Jayne McKee | UK | Professional practice |
18 | Somatic Interventions for the most common Obstacles of Mind. Exploring the Body-Mind connection | Pauline Memelink | Netherlands | Wellbeing ┋Professional practice ┋Others |
19 | Movement Dynamics: Pedagogical research into accessing the exploration of qualitative expression. | Alessandra Ruggeri, Melanie Clarke | UK | Education (including pedagogy) 〖movement pedagogy〗 |
20 | Embodied Fundamentals – exploring somatic approaches to Bartenieff Fundamentals through improvisation. | Dr Helen Kindred | UK | Education |
21 | Workshop: Exploring Rudolf Laban’s Flow Effort: New Parameters of Touch | Dr Juliet Chambers-Coe | UK | Performance |
22 | Moving Our Selves | Katharina Conradi, Joanna Brotman | The Netherlands/US | Professional practice |
23 | Workshop – Playfully Tuning into Consciousness through Breath, Sound, and Space | Laura Victoria Ward | USA | Ecology ┋Wellbeing ┋Spirituality |
24 | Exploring The Relationship Between Space Effort And The Yield-Push-Reach-Pull Patterns As Tools To Create A Successful Process. | Rotem Hornedo | USA/Israel | Theory ┋Clinical application ┋Wellbeing |
25 | Embodied Witnessing – cultivating resonance and clarity | Tara Stepenberg | USA | Theory ┋Social justice ┋Professional practice |
26 | Inner/Outer: Perspectives based in Movement Experience and Observation | Karen Studd, Cat Maguire | USA | Education |
27 | Your Movement Habits Create Your Life | Mariah-Jane Thies | Canada | Wellbeing |
28 | Workshop Title: Organicism and Fracture: Adhering to and rupturing dynamic affinities for creative practice and dynamic movement training | Alison Curtis-Jones | UK | Education ┋Performance ┋Others 〖contemporary developments〗 |
29 | Rhythm in Relationship | Leonie van Essen, Maya Felixbrot | Netherlands | Others |
30 | Re-imagining Laban’s Principles and Practice: Rupturing Laban’s A’Scale for Contemporary Creative Practice | Alison Curtis-Jones | UK | Education┋Performance ┋Professional practice |
31 | Introduction to Klein Technique™ | Susan Klein | USA | Education |
32 | Key Conversation: Integrated approaches to Movement Thinking” | Dr Juliet Chambers-Coe | UK | Spirituality |
33 | Movement Pattern Analysis: Integrating First and Third Person Perspectives | Carol-Lynne Moore | USA | Professional practice |
34 | The Application of LBMS in China | Yan Katee Shen, Peng Xiaoxi, LIU Shaobo, Tony Zhou | China | Education┋Community ┋Professional practice |
35 | Plural perspectives for LBMS in Brazil: educational experiences with babies, children and adults | Adriana Vilchez Magrini Liza; Adriano José Pinheiro; Lilian Freitas Vilela | Brasil | Education |
36 | FEMALE TRACES ¦ performance | Helen Kindred and Sandra Sok | UK and Azerbaijan | Performance |
Dance Therapy & Movement Therapy Summit
1 | Using the relationship with our cells and inner ecosystem to bridge inner connection and outer expression within the field of DMT | Aparna Ramkrishnan | India | Clinical application┋Wellbeing ┋Professional practice |
2 | Indigenous Practice and Teaching of Dance Movement Therapy: Eastern and Western Perspectives | Linda Cao Baker | USA | Education┋Indigenous healing ┋Professional practice |
3 | Expressive Arts Therapy for building Empathy and Self-Esteem in Adolescents | Mausam Nagda | India | Community┋Indigenous healing┋Wellbeing |
4 | How can DMT help children who experienced neglect and abuse embody their experience that occurred during the pre-verbal stage? | Mioi Forster-Nakayama | Australia | Clinical application ┋Professional practice ┋Other Disability |
5 | Move before we dance–Localized Practice and Experience in Dance/Movement Therapy | Mao Zhang | China | Education┋Performance ┋Professional practice |
6 | Harnessing Beauty in the Healing Practice of Dance/Movement Therapy | Rebekka Dieterich-Hartwell, Anne Margrethe Melsom, Mary Patterson, and Lara Tant | USA | Clinical application ┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice |
7 | Introducing Dance Movement Psychotherapy in Eastern European Psychiatric Hospitals and Mental Health Communities | Loredana Larionescu | Romania | Clinical application ┋Community┋Professional practice |
8 | Reflections on the Influence of Ethnic Chinese Cultural Attribute on Individual Vitality in Dance Therapy | Haoxin | China | Clinical application ┋Indigenous healing ┋Professional practice |
9 | The contribution of DMT in the exploration, integration and prevention of birth trauma. | Ana Luisa Meza Ferrari | Spain | Education ┋Wellbeing ┋Other trauma |
10 | Dance Movement Therapy tools to empower female community leaders in rural areas who have been victims of the armed conflict in Colombia | María Andrea García | Colombia | Community┋Social justice┋Professional practice |
11 | Developing Methods for a receptive dance movement therapy | Rosemarie Samaritter | The Netherlands | Theory┋Clinical application |
12 | The Neuroscience of Dance Therapy | Wolfgang Mastnak | Germany and China | Theory |
13 | Dance Rhythm Therapy between tradition and modernity | France Schott-Billmann | France | History |
14 | Buddhist Psychology intersects with Dance Movement Therapy | Anubha Doshi & Tripura Kashyap | India | Indigenous healing ┋Wellbeing ┋Spirituality |
15 | Enhancing Resilience: Teaching Embodiment Practices to Adolescents and Young Adults | Susan Bauer | USA | Education┋Wellbeing ┋ |
16 | Dance/movement therapy for autism children | Magulan Danmu | China | Community ┋Performance ┋Wellbeing |
17 | Dance movement therapy for depression: the evidence so far and future directions | Vicky Karkou, Supritha Aithal, Zoe Moula, Emma Perris | UK | Clinical application ┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice |
18 | Learning Dance Movement Therapy but How? An introduction to a circular DMT Training | Brigitte Züger | Switzerland | Education |
19 | Art of Embodied Organizational/Corporate Development and Leadership | Malini Nagpal | USA | Leadership |
20 | Accompanying change! Choreo-therapeutic strategies in dance/ movementtherapy | Fabian Chyle-Silvestri | Germany | Professional practice┋Other |
21 | Sharing of practice in creative dancing and dance therapy groups for the elderly in Chinese high-class nursing institutions | Linlin Peng, Shanshan Xing | China | Education┋Clinical application ┋Indigenous healing |
22 | Arts-based and mixed methods research in an evidence-based practice world | Elizabeth (Liesbet) Manders | USA | Research |
23 | Culturally Sensitive Dance Movement Therapy for Grief and Trauma Recovery | Ilene Ava Serlin | USA | Clinical application |
24 | Dancing to Reconcile: Fostering Community Healing after Armed Conflict through Dance/Movement Therapy | David Alan Harris | USA | Clinical application ┋Community ┋Justice and Reconciliation after Armed Conflict |
25 | Introduction to Physical Storytelling with Application to Supervision within Dance Therapy | E. Connor Kelly | New Zealand | Professional practice ┋Clinical Supervision for DMT |
26 | The resilient dancing of a mountain community. | Monica Re | Italy | Theory┋Clinical application ┋Wellbeing |
27 | The Concept of Yin and Yang in Dance/Movement Therapy —- A Cycle of Return, Re-feeding and Vitality | Yan Katee Shen | China | Education┋Community ┋Professional practice |
28 | LivingDance~LivingMusic: Where Dance is the Star and Psychology the Supporting Actor. | Danielle L. Fraenkel, JeffreyMehr | USA | Theory┋Clinical application┋Social |
29 | Where is the Dance in Dance Movement Therapy (Psychotherapy) ? | Jeannette MacDonald | UK | Clinical application ┋Professional practice ┋Disability |
30 | “Movement, Dance, the Brain Ageing Journey and the Role of the DMT in making a difference” | Richard Coaten | UK | Clinical application ┋Social justice |
31 | Dancing Equity: Working toward engagement, access and connection in culturally diverse communities | David Leventhal | USA | Community┋Wellbeing ┋Professional practice |
32 | Dancing From Our Baselines: Distinguishing Effort Use in the DMT Session to Increase Our Understanding of the Danced Dialogue | Cheryl Clark | USA | Clinical application┋Social justice |
33 | Global Panel – From tradition to diversity, innovation and breakthrough: Key conversations on dance and movement therapy around the world | Sharon Chaiklin, Helen Payne, Yael Barkai, Rosa Maria Govoni, France Schott-Billmann, Anne Fisk, Diana Fischman, Irina Biryukova, Sabine Koch, Rainbow Ho, Devika Mehta, Sudesh Mantillake, Wolfgang Mastnak, Connor Kelly, Marcia Plevin, Kyung Soon Ko, Tony Zhou, Vivien Marcow Speiser | Argentina, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lankan, UK, USA | History┋Community ┋Professional practice |
34 | A dynamic dialogue engaging diverse arts and embodied perspectives on meeting trauma and building resilience | Susan Scarth & other panelists | UK | Clinical application |
35 | Western Teachers, Chinese Students: How Shall We Meet? | Joan Wittig, Marcia Plevin, Rosa Maria Govoni, Christina Devereaux, Ted Ehrhardt, Katee Shen, Tony Zhou and others | USA, Italy, China | Education┋Clinical application┋Community |