Journal article
Music, movement, and emotions: an inquiry with suggestions for the practice of dance/movement therapy
Body, movement and dance in psychotherapy, v 14(4)
02 Oct 2019
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Abstract
Emotions play a significant role in our lives. While the literature has shed some light on how emotions are evoked, not all aspects are well understood. Music and dance or movement have been shown to stimulate an aesthetic or emotional response and seem to affect each other. However, these cross-modal influences have only been studied in individuals who are passively engaged . Missing are accounts of how music affects dancers and moving affects making music, a gap which is especially salient considering the frequent application of music during dance/movement therapy sessions. In this paper, I present a vignette from a creative arts studio class and subsequently describe the use of a heuristic arts-informed methodology as a means of gaining greater understanding about the connection between music and movement and their influences on emotions. I connect extant literature to my own findings and derive suggestions for the field of dance/movement therapy.
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- Title
- Music, movement, and emotions: an inquiry with suggestions for the practice of dance/movement therapy
- Creators
- Rebekka Magdalena Dieterich-Hartwell - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Body, movement and dance in psychotherapy, v 14(4)
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts Therapies
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000489582800001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85074529144
- Other Identifier
- 991019167777504721
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