Bringing Dance to Older Adults and People with Dementia

This graduate-level course introduces the theory and practice of dance and dance/movement therapy as it relates to people living with dementia and will utilize creative movement and DMT methods to teach participants to create a psychologically safe and supportive social and emotional environment where people with dementia can actively engage, inspire, and uplift one another.

Issues will include aging, dementia, and dementia care, the use of self, the role of mirroring, kinesthetic empathy, group dynamics, cultural aspects of care, and the essential elements for creating and adapting dance and expressive movement structures for this population using music and props.

The methodology will include movement experiences in support of understanding attunement through mirroring and sensitive leadership, movement observation, journaling, and discussions.

For further information contact: Cecilia Fontanesi (dmtcoordinator92y [at] gmail [dot] com)
Please register early as there is a limit on the number of students.

Upon completion of the course, students who do the required assignments will be eligible to receive 15 hours of Alternate Route credit toward the R-DMT. In addition, 15 hours of CEs from the ADTA are available.

Fri, 6:30-9:30 pm ET (Zoom) Sat, 3-7 pm & Sun, 9 am-6 pm ET

$350 until Nov 15 / $400 after