WAEF 2023 Proposals Review Result

12 Nov

The World Arts and Embodiment Forum (WAEF 2023)

Accepted Proposals

(Updated Nov 23, 2022)

Check www.waef2023.org for program & registration

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Authentic Movement Summit

No.	Title	Speaker(s)	Country	Topic
1	Seminar with Janet Adler	Janet Adler	USA	Theory┋Wellbeing ┋Spirituality
2	Desire – An awakening into the deep body (presentation)	Brinda Sarah Jacob	India	Community┋Performance ┋Spirituality
3	Closing my eyes to see you	Sarka Bartuskova, Boserup Friskole	Czech Republic & Denmark	Education┋Clinical application
4	Effects of a Single Movement Intervention on Psychiatric Patients with Depression	Zoey Cheng Zengyan	China	Clinical application
5	MoverWitness interdisciplinarity	Eila Goldhahn	UK	Theory┋Ecology ┋Performance
6	Do not look at me	Monika Ptasinska	UK & Slovakia	Clinical application ┋Professional practice
7	Authentic Movement and Zen Practice	Ding Jie	China	History┋Theory ┋Professional practice
8	TI VEDO _ I SEE YOU A collective journey in Authentic Movement	Collective of the AM Master 2019-2020, ATI	Italy	Performance┋Professional practice
9	Honoring the dancing female body, embodiment of soul and spirit of the time	Antonella Monteleone	Italy	Clinical application┋Social justice┋Spirituality
10	Overcoming Social Isolation Through Arts In Virtual Communities (Authentic Movement Solo Groups)	Olga (Olesya) Bondareva	Canada	Community┋Wellbeing ┋Professional practice
11	Clarity of Verbalization: The importance of language in the practice of Authentic Movement	Yan Katee Shen	China	Professional practice
12	The Knowing Body: direct experience, embodied ways of knowing, embodied language and development of embodied witness consciousness	Aleksandra Schuller	Slovenia	Theory┋Clinical application┋Spirituality
13	The discipline of authentic movement and the development of the ecological self	Helen Payne	UK	Ecology┋Clinical practice┋ Community┋Wellbeing
14	DreamDancing: Engaging the Opposites through Authentic Movement”	Tina Stromsted	USA	Clinical application
15	Blending Internal Family Systems (IFS) with the Discipline of Authentic Movement(DAM)	Susan E Cahill, Betina Waissman	USA & Spain	Theory┋Clinical application ┋Spirituality
16	Authentic Movement Inspirations and influences on the development of Physical Storytelling	E. Connor Kelly	New Zealand	Community┋Wellbeing
17	Expanding the edges of synchrony and attunement	Terese Gjernes and Riki Bloom	USA	Theory┋Clinical application ┋Social justice
18	Invitation to Find A Bit of Witch Power in Your Body: A workshop for female identified persons	Annie Blair	USA	Social justice
19	The body knows: harvesting the essence of gesture integrating meditation and aspects of Authentic Movement	Susan Bauer	USA	Wellbeing┋Spirituality ┋Professional practice
20	Ebb and Flow: continuity of experience through Art and Authentic Movement	Rosa Maria Govoni & Mimma Della Cagnoletta	Italy	Wellbeing┋Professional practice
21	A Roundtable Discussion (International Group of Practitioners/Teachers of Authentic Movement)	Rosa Maria Govoni, Tina Stromsted, Helen Payne, Soraya Jorge, Marcia Plevin, Yael Barkai, Irina Biryukova	Brasil, Israel, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, UK, US	Other
22	An Evolution of Embodied Consciousness: Celebrating Janet Adler’s New Book	Paula Sager & Bonnie Morrissey	USA	History┋Community ┋Spirituality
23	Authentic Movement – An Entry Point to Symptom and Chronic Illness	Elyn Selu	USA	Clinical application ┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice

Creative Movement Summit

1	Be-coming Tree. Live streamed transnational project building global resilience through embodied arts	Jatun Risba, Danièle Minns, O. Pen Be (P. Best)	England, Ireland, Slovenia	Community ┋Ecology ┋Performance
2	Discover Moving Nature: Movement Activities Resource for Care-Givers and Professionals	Jordine Cornish	Australia/ Israel	Clinical application ┋Community ┋Wellbeing
3	Creative resources in times of fear and uncertainty	Maria Elena Garcia	Italy	Education ┋Wellbeing
4	The creative process in the time of Covid-19 on the example of choreopoetry with creative movement	Mojca Kasjak, Alenka Vidrih	Slovenia	Preformance
5	Localization Practice of Children’s Creative Dance Course – Research on the Teaching Practice of Outside School Dancing Activity Class for Lower Grades in the View of the New Curriculum Standard	Chen Li	China	Education┋Professional practice
6	Moving on the bridge between Creative Movement and Dance Movement Therapy: an inquiry of their similarities and differences in training and practice	Marcia Plevin, Joan Wittig	Italy/USA	Education┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice
7	Merging Science with the Sacred : Self-care through Somatics, Dance and the Spiritual Wisdom of our Indigenous Ancestors	Helene Su	UK	Ecology┋Wellbeing┋Spirituality
8	Creative Movement applied to dancers: testimony of a didactic path	Patrizia Macagno	Italy	History┋Education
9	Creative movement and conducting for students of music education	Riccardo Lombardo	Italy	Education┋Professional practice┋Music
10	The sense of (creative) movement: Possible interactions/integrations between Creative Movement and Philosophy	Simona Donato	Italy	Education┋Ecology┋Philosophy
11	Through actions of the body we can develop the longest sustaining memories.	Tang Wanling	China	Education┋Performance┋Professional practice
12	Play and creativity in adulthood through the Creative Movement Gracia-Plevin Method®	Tiziana Giansante	Italy	Education┋Wellbeing
13	Creative Dance as Experiential Learning in State Primary Education: The Potential Benefits for Children	Helen Payne	UK	Theory┋Education┋Professional practice
14	Dancing through Landscape	Julia Morozova	The Netherlands	Education┋Ecology
15	[Video] Path to creativity: a story of an experience with children during the lockdown	Gea Lucetti	Italy	Education┋Wellbeing
16	Embodied architecture – a new perspective of the life space	Elisabetta Leodori	Italy	Community┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice
17	The Body as Felt, Known, Poetic Place. A songline of eco-relationship with all sentience through image and dance improvisation.	Narelle Carter-Quinlan	Australia	Ecology┋Wellbeing┋Spirituality
18	Body awareness and movement for skills-based learning and self-care in higher education: a model based on Dance Movement Therapy	Rosa-María Rodríguez-Jiménez	Spain	Education┋Wellbeing┋Soft skills development
19	Dance Ability® – An inclusive dance practice to break through isolation！	Fabian Chyle- Silvestri	Germany	Community┋Performance┋Professional practice
20	Reviewing the Creative Dialogue Project: Using Online Creative Arts Improvisations across Countries and Cultures during the COVID Pandemic	Steve Harvey, E. Connor Kelly, Tinting Song, Si Wang	New Zealand/China	International Crisis
21	Minds in Motion: Creative Movement as a Language for Learning	Susan Griss	USA	Education
22	Changing Flow states through connective dance/movement practices in the Parkinson’s community.	Melanie Brierley	UK	Community┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice
23	Mettler-based Creative Dance: Cultivating Individual Expression and Collective Dance-Making	Mary Ann Brehm	USA	Education┋Community┋Wellbeing
24	The Training, Practice and Application of Creative Movement in different realities	Steve Harvey, Conner Kelly, Susan Griss, Mariaelena Garcia, Penny Best, Chen Li, Rosamaria Rodriguez, Xiong Yin	Italy, UK, Spain, US, New Zealand, Argentina, China	Education┋Community┋Wellbeing
25	The Regenerative Body	Elikem Kunutsor	Ghana	Performance┋Wellbeing┋Spirituality

LBMS (Laban Bartenieff Movement System) Summit

1	Presentation: Exploring Rudolf Laban’s Effort and Space as planes of consciousness	Dr Juliet Chambers-Coe	UK	Theory
2	Bartenieff, Kestenberg, and Lamb: A Triumvirate of Minds	Carol-Lynne Moore	USA	History
3	Laban’s women’: the silent bodies of knowledge	Juliet Chambers-Coe	UK	History ┋Social justice
4	Examining the Position of Choreosophy in Laban Theory and its Contemporary Significance for Society	Lin Wang	China	Theory ┋Community ┋Wellbeing
5	A Thematic Exploration of Space Effort As A Tool To Manage Healthy Relationships and Boundaries.	Rotem Hornedo	USA / Israel	Clinical application ┋Wellbeing ┋Professional practice
6	Space research of Standard Dance under the concept of “Space Harmony”	Shaobo Liu	China	Education ┋Performance ┋Professional practice
7	In her footsteps: Irmgard’s Walk through history	Susan Lynn Wiesner	USA	History
8	A Kinesthetic Empathy Approach to 21st Century Ballet Training: Integrating LBMS and Research in the Cognitive Sciences	Shannon Cuykendall	Canada	Education ┋Social justice ┋Professional practice
9	The application of LBMS for the major of Dance choreography in Chinese university	Dan, LIU	China	History ┋Clinical application ┋Professional practice
10	On Transversality: Ullmann, infrastructures, ethics	Alexandra Baybut	UK	History ┋Theory
11	The Propagation Path of Laban’s Movement Theory in China ( 1940s-1980s )	PENG Xiaoxi	China	History ┋Theory ┋Social justice
12	“Re-Imagining Laban: Dynamic Transformations in Contemporary Dance Practice”	Alison Curtis-Jones	UK	Education ┋Performance ┋Others 〖Movement/Dance Training, Creative Practice〗
13	LBMS in decolonial educational actions in Brazil	Lilian Freitas Vilela	Brasil	Education ┋Community
14	Advancing Innovations: The Relevance of Choreological Practice for Performance, Analysis and Wellbeing.	Alison Curtis-Jones	UK	Education ┋Performance ┋Wellbeing
15	Movement Pattern Analysis – An assessment in its own right. Getting to the core of things.	Beverley Dunn	USA	Spirituality ┋Professional practice ┋Leadership
16	Letter to the field	Camila Simonin Lima de Moura	Brazil	History ┋Performance ┋Social justice
17	Finding space: internal-external, body-mind dialogues in dance practice	Jayne McKee	UK	Professional practice
18	Somatic Interventions for the most common Obstacles of Mind. Exploring the Body-Mind connection	Pauline Memelink	Netherlands	Wellbeing ┋Professional practice ┋Others
19	Movement Dynamics: Pedagogical research into accessing the exploration of qualitative expression.	Alessandra Ruggeri, Melanie Clarke	UK	Education (including pedagogy) 〖movement pedagogy〗
20	Embodied Fundamentals – exploring somatic approaches to Bartenieff Fundamentals through improvisation.	Dr Helen Kindred	UK	Education
21	Workshop: Exploring Rudolf Laban’s Flow Effort: New Parameters of Touch	Dr Juliet Chambers-Coe	UK	Performance
22	Moving Our Selves	Katharina Conradi, Joanna Brotman	The Netherlands/US	Professional practice
23	Workshop – Playfully Tuning into Consciousness through Breath, Sound, and Space	Laura Victoria Ward	USA	Ecology ┋Wellbeing ┋Spirituality
24	Exploring The Relationship Between Space Effort And The Yield-Push-Reach-Pull Patterns As Tools To Create A Successful Process.	Rotem Hornedo	USA/Israel	Theory ┋Clinical application ┋Wellbeing
25	Embodied Witnessing – cultivating resonance and clarity	Tara Stepenberg	USA	Theory ┋Social justice ┋Professional practice
26	Inner/Outer: Perspectives based in Movement Experience and Observation	Karen Studd, Cat Maguire	USA	Education
27	Your Movement Habits Create Your Life	Mariah-Jane Thies	Canada	Wellbeing
28	Workshop Title: Organicism and Fracture: Adhering to and rupturing dynamic affinities for creative practice and dynamic movement training	Alison Curtis-Jones	UK	Education ┋Performance ┋Others 〖contemporary developments〗
29	Rhythm in Relationship	Leonie van Essen, Maya Felixbrot	Netherlands	Others
30	Re-imagining Laban’s Principles and Practice: Rupturing Laban’s A’Scale for Contemporary Creative Practice	Alison Curtis-Jones	UK	Education┋Performance ┋Professional practice
31	Introduction to Klein Technique™	Susan Klein	USA	Education
32	Key Conversation: Integrated approaches to Movement Thinking”	Dr Juliet Chambers-Coe	UK	Spirituality
33	Movement Pattern Analysis: Integrating First and Third Person Perspectives	Carol-Lynne Moore	USA	Professional practice
34	The Application of LBMS in China	Yan Katee Shen, Peng Xiaoxi, LIU Shaobo, Tony Zhou	China	Education┋Community ┋Professional practice
35	Plural perspectives for LBMS in Brazil: educational experiences with babies, children and adults	Adriana Vilchez Magrini Liza; Adriano José Pinheiro; Lilian Freitas Vilela	Brasil	Education
36	FEMALE TRACES ¦ performance	Helen Kindred and Sandra Sok	UK and Azerbaijan	Performance

Dance Therapy & Movement Therapy Summit

1	Using the relationship with our cells and inner ecosystem to bridge inner connection and outer expression within the field of DMT	Aparna Ramkrishnan	India	Clinical application┋Wellbeing ┋Professional practice
2	Indigenous Practice and Teaching of Dance Movement Therapy： Eastern and Western Perspectives	Linda Cao Baker	USA	Education┋Indigenous healing ┋Professional practice
3	Expressive Arts Therapy for building Empathy and Self-Esteem in Adolescents	Mausam Nagda	India	Community┋Indigenous healing┋Wellbeing
4	How can DMT help children who experienced neglect and abuse embody their experience that occurred during the pre-verbal stage?	Mioi Forster-Nakayama	Australia	Clinical application ┋Professional practice ┋Other Disability
5	Move before we dance–Localized Practice and Experience in Dance/Movement Therapy	Mao Zhang	China	Education┋Performance ┋Professional practice
6	Harnessing Beauty in the Healing Practice of Dance/Movement Therapy	Rebekka Dieterich-Hartwell, Anne Margrethe Melsom, Mary Patterson, and Lara Tant	USA	Clinical application ┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice
7	Introducing Dance Movement Psychotherapy in Eastern European Psychiatric Hospitals and Mental Health Communities	Loredana Larionescu	Romania	Clinical application ┋Community┋Professional practice
8	Reflections on the Influence of Ethnic Chinese Cultural Attribute on Individual Vitality in Dance Therapy	Haoxin	China	Clinical application ┋Indigenous healing ┋Professional practice
9	The contribution of DMT in the exploration, integration and prevention of birth trauma.	Ana Luisa Meza Ferrari	Spain	Education ┋Wellbeing ┋Other trauma
10	Dance Movement Therapy tools to empower female community leaders in rural areas who have been victims of the armed conflict in Colombia	María Andrea García	Colombia	Community┋Social justice┋Professional practice
11	Developing Methods for a receptive dance movement therapy	Rosemarie Samaritter	The Netherlands	Theory┋Clinical application
12	The Neuroscience of Dance Therapy	Wolfgang Mastnak	Germany and China	Theory
13	Dance Rhythm Therapy between tradition and modernity	France Schott-Billmann	France	History
14	Buddhist Psychology intersects with Dance Movement Therapy	Anubha Doshi & Tripura Kashyap	India	Indigenous healing ┋Wellbeing ┋Spirituality
15	Enhancing Resilience: Teaching Embodiment Practices to Adolescents and Young Adults	Susan Bauer	USA	Education┋Wellbeing ┋
16	Dance/movement therapy for autism children	Magulan Danmu	China	Community ┋Performance ┋Wellbeing
17	Dance movement therapy for depression: the evidence so far and future directions	Vicky Karkou, Supritha Aithal, Zoe Moula, Emma Perris	UK	Clinical application ┋Wellbeing┋Professional practice
18	Learning Dance Movement Therapy but How? An introduction to a circular DMT Training	Brigitte Züger	Switzerland	Education
19	Art of Embodied Organizational/Corporate Development and Leadership	Malini Nagpal	USA	Leadership
20	Accompanying change！ Choreo-therapeutic strategies in dance/ movementtherapy	Fabian Chyle-Silvestri	Germany	Professional practice┋Other
21	Sharing of practice in creative dancing and dance therapy groups for the elderly in Chinese high-class nursing institutions	Linlin Peng, Shanshan Xing	China	Education┋Clinical application ┋Indigenous healing
22	Arts-based and mixed methods research in an evidence-based practice world	Elizabeth (Liesbet) Manders	USA	Research
23	Culturally Sensitive Dance Movement Therapy for Grief and Trauma Recovery	Ilene Ava Serlin	USA	Clinical application
24	Dancing to Reconcile: Fostering Community Healing after Armed Conflict through Dance/Movement Therapy	David Alan Harris	USA	Clinical application ┋Community ┋Justice and Reconciliation after Armed Conflict
25	Introduction to Physical Storytelling with Application to Supervision within Dance Therapy	E. Connor Kelly	New Zealand	Professional practice ┋Clinical Supervision for DMT
26	The resilient dancing of a mountain community.	Monica Re	Italy	Theory┋Clinical application ┋Wellbeing
27	The Concept of Yin and Yang in Dance/Movement Therapy —- A Cycle of Return, Re-feeding and Vitality	Yan Katee Shen	China	Education┋Community ┋Professional practice
28	LivingDance~LivingMusic: Where Dance is the Star and Psychology the Supporting Actor.	Danielle L. Fraenkel, JeffreyMehr	USA	Theory┋Clinical application┋Social
29	Where is the Dance in Dance Movement Therapy (Psychotherapy) ?	Jeannette MacDonald	UK	Clinical application ┋Professional practice ┋Disability
30	“Movement, Dance, the Brain Ageing Journey and the Role of the DMT in making a difference”	Richard Coaten	UK	Clinical application ┋Social justice
31	Dancing Equity: Working toward engagement, access and connection in culturally diverse communities	David Leventhal	USA	Community┋Wellbeing ┋Professional practice
32	Dancing From Our Baselines: Distinguishing Effort Use in the DMT Session to Increase Our Understanding of the Danced Dialogue	Cheryl Clark	USA	Clinical application┋Social justice
33	Global Panel – From tradition to diversity, innovation and breakthrough: Key conversations on dance and movement therapy around the world	Sharon Chaiklin, Helen Payne, Yael Barkai, Rosa Maria Govoni, France Schott-Billmann, Anne Fisk, Diana Fischman, Irina Biryukova, Sabine Koch, Rainbow Ho, Devika Mehta, Sudesh Mantillake, Wolfgang Mastnak, Connor Kelly, Marcia Plevin, Kyung Soon Ko, Tony Zhou, Vivien Marcow Speiser	Argentina, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lankan, UK, USA	History┋Community ┋Professional practice
34	A dynamic dialogue engaging diverse arts and embodied perspectives on meeting trauma and building resilience	Susan Scarth & other panelists	UK	Clinical application
35	Western Teachers, Chinese Students: How Shall We Meet?	Joan Wittig, Marcia Plevin, Rosa Maria Govoni, Christina Devereaux, Ted Ehrhardt, Katee Shen, Tony Zhou and others	USA, Italy, China	Education┋Clinical application┋Community