dance therapy

noun

1. the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.

Example Sentences

They also will be able to take part in art, music and dance therapy.

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When Vicki Alvarez and Clorinda Rossi-Shewan each discovered dance therapy through working with Kathy Cass and Hilary Kern through their Chance to Dance and Dance For All programs, they felt similarly enamored with the way movement could help people express themselves.

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The "dance therapy" is part of a rehabilitation programme offered to them by prison authorities.

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Ravideep Singh Chahar, Inspector General of prisons in Puducherry, says they now hope to make dance therapy an integral part of the prison reform programme.

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“Dance therapy helped me to take away all the bad things I had inside me. The sadness and fear I had all went away.”

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