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People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.

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Among its many uses, dance
movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

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In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance. Awareness that dance is not just entertainment but also a form of education and healing may reverse the trend.

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It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

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The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

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Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve conflict, revitalize the past to re-create the present, enhance their self-concept and body image, attract attention, assert themselves, confront the strong, and persuade others to change their ways.

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

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