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About Dance Movement Therapy:
Dance movement therapy is the use of dance movements to help treat a variety of emotional, psychological, and physical impairments. The medical world has recognized the connection between mind and body, and the history of dance movement therapy dates back to the 1940s, according to the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA). Dance therapy is used in a variety of practice settings, such as hospitals, classrooms, nursing homes, rehab centers, with a many types of patients including children, adults and geriatrics.

According to the ADTA, dance therapy can help treat patients who are dealing with one or more of a variety of physical and emotional or psycho-social conditions such as Parkinson's disease, autism, Alzheimer's, eating disorders, or trauma.