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Arts in the Environment: Going to the Source
by Norma Canner
In this video, Norma Canner, a movement/dance therapist, works with a diverse group of men and women for four days in the wilderness to experience creative expression and rediscover a child's sense of wonder.
In 1992 and ’93, Norma Canner developed a creative dance workshop in Kansas for teachers, artists and therapists which took place in a wilderness environment and focused on our place in and connection to the natural world. This unique outdoor workshop transported a group of teachers, therapists and artists into a dramatic natural setting for the opportunity to experience creative expression and recapture a child’s sense of wonder. Through individual and group exploration, internal and external dialoguing with the self, others and the environment, viewers are able to join the group’s ability to play, discover and transform.What therapists are saying…
"We follow the group going through explorations of the environment, beginning with the freedom to experience their bodies in fluid motion, first alone, then with a partner, and then as a group. Along the way Canner encourages the group members to pay attention to their bodies, give up judgment of themselves and others, and find their own way to playful, safe, spontaneous open-ended exercises in time and space."
— Eleanor Irwin, PhD, RDT, TEP
— Eleanor Irwin, PhD, RDT, TEP
In 1992 and ’93, Norma Canner developed a creative dance workshop in Kansas for teachers, artists and therapists which took place in a wilderness environment and focused on our place in and connection to the natural world. This unique outdoor workshop transported a group of teachers, therapists and artists into a dramatic natural setting for the opportunity to experience creative expression and recapture a child’s sense of wonder. Through individual and group exploration, internal and external dialoguing with the self, others and the environment, viewers are able to join the group’s ability to play, discover and transform.
Through creative dance, song and other structured sensory experiences, participants explored the way place affects the very nature of the learning process and increased both their personal and group awareness of the integral connection between creativity and place. The video provides an opportunity to witness the creative spark between person and place as we trace the group’s journey through magnificent chalk cliffs that were carved by an ancient sea in Western Kansas.
Commentary by Anne Brownell.
This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.
Through creative dance, song and other structured sensory experiences, participants explored the way place affects the very nature of the learning process and increased both their personal and group awareness of the integral connection between creativity and place. The video provides an opportunity to witness the creative spark between person and place as we trace the group’s journey through magnificent chalk cliffs that were carved by an ancient sea in Western Kansas.
Commentary by Anne Brownell.
This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.
Length of video: 0:55:00
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-704-4
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-704-9
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