I just found some of my favorite quotes from dance/movement therapist Trudi Schoop:
from "Motion and Emotion", Trudi Schoop, AJDT 22(2) 2000 (that is, the American Journal of Dance Therapy).
p.100, “I don’t want to tranquilize: I want to incite - so that we both become totally involved - intensely preoccupied with living.”
p.101, “And however we use dance in our practice, it must relate to our human quality. We must trust and abide by our humanity. For I believe that our ‘work’ is our personal philosophy, and our exciting vocation.”
“I sometimes wonder if we are not a little bit insecure about our young form of therapy and that we therefore tend to lean too heavily on the well-established professions, letting ourselves be pressured into looking with their eyes on our treatment. We are young, but whatever we will find out - and I believe that we will find out plenty - will come from the power of dance itself. We cannot rely on other theories. Theories can quickly become unyielding models, and dance defies the confinement of another discipline.”
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