Longing for belonging

C 2018

Longing for belonging

VASIČÁKOVÁ OČENÁŠOVÁ, Zuzana and Iveta ZEDKOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Longing for belonging

Name in Czech

Touha patřit

Authors

VASIČÁKOVÁ OČENÁŠOVÁ, Zuzana and Iveta ZEDKOVÁ

Edition

1st ed. New York, Arts Therapies and New Challenges in Psychiatry, edited by Karin Dannecker, Rountledge, 2018, p. 170-186, 16 pp. International Research in Arts Therapies, A Routledge Book Series, 2018

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor-Francis Group

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

ISBN

978-1-138-67197-3

Keywords (in Czech)

tanečne-pohybová terapie; psychiatrie; Labanova analýza pohybu; lidový tanec

Keywords in English

dance movement therapy; psychiatry; Laban movement analyses; folk dance

Abstract

V originále

The text explores the possibilities, challenges and limits of using Slovak folk dances as a potential therapeutic substrate in dance movement therapy. In Slovakia, a pilot research aimed at Laban movement analyses of five selected Slovak folk dances has been conducted for the potential use for dance art and dance movement therapy. The initial research question was: What is objectively used and what is negated in the terms of movement qualities in Slovak folk dances? The actual applied follow-up research questions are: How can we use this insight into the movement qualities spectrum of the Slovak folk dances to asses it as potential therapeutic substrate for dance movement therapy? Based on the analysis carried out, risks, limits and drawbacks of the application of the elements of Slovak folk dances in DMT will be discussed as well. One of the key instruments of dance movement therapy is Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) – a sophisticated, generally applicable complex system that allows observing and analyzing movement, based on objective concepts. The initial research was conducted through video recording of five main types of regional Slovak folk dances and analyses of these recordings through the method of Laban movement analyses. The recordings were conducted in cooperation with three Slovak professional folk dancers and a folk dance expert from SĽUK - Slovak Folk Art Ensemble. Within each dance type, there was a block of solo dances and pair dances. The analyses was conducted for each dance type and block separately – concentrating in one hand on movement preferences but also looking at the less or never used movement qualities lying in the “movement shadow”. The first - level analyses was outlined during the real time “life” observation including mirroring and conscious kinesthetic resonance of the researcher as a source of information. The second – level analyses was done on the bases of the video-recordings. Consequently, a comparative analysis was done to see the common patterns in either movement preferences or movement qualities in the “shadow”. The analysis was focused on the four main LMA movement categories: body, effort, shape and space. The analyses brought up common movement patterns, shadow movement qualities, movement shifts from authentic folk dancing of the 19th century to its scenic modification of the 20th century, as well as differences in movement choices of men and women. The prevailing common movement choices were indicated -where further therapeutic effect can be presumed: verticality (sense of self), upper-lower body connection and upper stable while lower active body half (stability/mobility principle,), use of flow (creativity and support of spontaneity), strong effort and direct relationship to the space (support of concentration and decision- making). The data material has potential to be further developed in the area of dance movement therapy in following directions: - as a “frame”, a set movement material to be therapeutically experiences and worked on besides improvised dance where different specific themes can be rather precisely addressed, - as a material for to explore patterns of collective nonverbal metaphors and access to re-ownership of the individual – collective roots, - as a substrate for the specified work with dyads on the themes of relations, partnership and gender, - as a space for relating, enabling to emerge a sense of belonging.

Citovat

VASIČÁKOVÁ OČENÁŠOVÁ, Zuzana and Iveta ZEDKOVÁ. Longing for belonging. In Karin Dannecker. Arts Therapies and New Challenges in Psychiatry, edited by Karin Dannecker, Rountledge, 2018. 1st ed. New York: Routledge, Taylor-Francis Group, 2018, p. 170-186, 16 pp. International Research in Arts Therapies, A Routledge Book Series. ISBN 978-1-138-67197-3.

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VASIČÁKOVÁ OČENÁŠOVÁ, Zuzana and Iveta ZEDKOVÁ. Longing for belonging. In Karin Dannecker. \textit{Arts Therapies and New Challenges in Psychiatry, edited by Karin Dannecker, Rountledge, 2018}. 1st ed. New York: Routledge, Taylor-Francis Group, 2018, p.~170-186, 16 pp. International Research in Arts Therapies, A Routledge Book Series. ISBN~978-1-138-67197-3.

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