The Dance/Movement Therapy of Blanche Evan Life is Movement

Introduction  Section 1: Dance Career, Creative Dance Pedagogy, Functional Technique  1. Choreography and Performing Dance Career  2. Creative Dance Pedagogy for Children  3. Functional Technique  Section 2: Dance/Movement Therapy  4. Blanche Evan’s Dance/Movement Therapy: Theoretical Foundations  5. Methods for Group Sessions  6. Methods for Individual Sessions  7. Blanche Evan’s Place Among Early Dance/Movement Therapists  Section 3: Blanche Evan as a Mentor  8. Training With a Master Teacher  9. “Floor/Flight/Feet”: Performing Evan’s Choreography  10. Colleagues and Students: Ruth Gordon-Benov and Iris Rifkin-Gainer  Section 4: Blanche Evan’s Contributions: The Next Generation  11. Dance/Movement Therapy: Treating Sexual Trauma in the United States and Global Community  12. Dance Movement Therapy with Cancer Patients and Survivors  13. The Relevance of Evan’s Work in Our Changing World

Biography

Bonnie Bernstein, M.Ed., LMFT, BC-DMT, REAT, is a dance/movement therapist, and educator since 1979. Her “Life Is Movement” Institute in Palo Alto, CA, has sustained Blanche Evan’s legacy through clinical practice and therapist training, including internationally in Korea and India.

Anne M. Krantz, Ph.D., BC-DMT, dance/movement therapist and clinical psychologist, was Assistant Professor of Somatic Psychotherapy, California Institute of Integral Studies. Her dance/movement therapy program in Evan’s methods, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, continued for 24 years.

"I am deeply moved and profoundly appreciative that such a thoroughly comprehensive and accurate account of Blanche Evan’s work, principles, and methods is finally available to those in the field and those seeking personal growth. Bernstein and Krantz have made an extraordinary contribution to the literature that will serve dancers, dance/movement and creative art therapists, and psychologists for decades to come. Bravo!" 

Nancy Spanier, MA, Professor Emerita, University of Colorado Department of Theatre and Dance and Artistic Director of Performance Inventions

 

“This in-depth description of Blanche Evan’s dance/movement therapy philosophy and methods is a real treasure and an invaluable contribution to our field. The case examples and quotes highlight the contemporary relevance of Evan’s contributions. Therapists and students will benefit greatly from this extraordinary book.”

Elissa Queyquep White, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, dance-movement therapist and educator for 60 years, Visiting Professor, Creative Arts Therapy, Pratt Institute, former president. American Dance Therapy Association

 

“The Dance/Movement Therapy of Blanche Evan brings the vitality of dance to the intimacy of the consulting room, bridging a gap in today’s turn to the body in psychotherapy practice.  Integrating biography, theory and real bodies in space, Bernstein and Krantz convey the intelligence and beauty of Evan’s many-faceted vision of movement as a transformative vehicle spanning the physical, developmental, cultural, and emotional.  This book is a much-needed tour-de-force.”

Stephen Seligman, Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco and NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis; author, Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and Attachment