Movement is shaped by and in turn shapes culture, with the body as a living bridge between past and future. As dance therapists, we acknowledge the body as a site of cultural reproduction and transformation, conformity and challenge, limitation and opportunity. Each professional encounter has the potential to both acknowledge the past and co-create the future. Workshop participants explore how cultural codes are inscribed in the body and transmitted across generations, and how that which is cultural may be experienced as ‘natural’. Through active engagement in these and related questions, participants sharpen their transcultural awareness, and review their own practice. 

Sara 'Zora' Boas, RDMP, MA, MCC