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44th Annual Amercian Dance Therapy Association Cenference, Portland, OR

October 8 - 11, 2009

Our department made another impressive showing this year with signifigant awards presented on our faculty/alumni!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Stacey Hurst, President's Award,
Columbia College Chicago Graduate and
Faculty Member of our GLCMA Program

Nancy Tonsy (not pictured), Leader of Tomorrow,
Columbia College Chicago Graduate and
Faculty Member in our MA Program

Presentations from students, faculty and alumni on the conference topic of Research and Innovation in Dance/Movement Therapy were everywhere!

Scholarship award winners from the Research Celebration presnted their poster boards at the poster session.

Emma Barton - An evaluation of a dance/movement and yoga therapy program with participants experiencing severe mental illness.

Amanda Mitchell - The relationship between voice and movement qualities in dance/movement therapy with sexual assault survivors.

Sabrina Washington - A quasi-experimental study exploring the impact of dance/movement therapy on student time-out rates at a therapeutic day school.

Alumni presented workshops included:

Ingrid Lacey - Enriching the Qualityative Research Process through Artistic Inquiry Using Poetic Representation
Luv Seamon - The Use of Client Created Cooperative Games to Promote Social Learning

Faculty presented workshops and panel discussions included:

Lenore Hervey - Embodied Ethical Deciision Making
Lenore Hervey - The Embodied Writing
Stacey Hurst (panelist) - A Dialogue about the Many Applications of Laban Movement Analysis
Susan Imus, Chair, with Carol-Lynne Moore - Re-visioning 'Health' through Laban's Theory of Movement Harmony
Susan Imus, Chair (panelist) - Trudi Schoop: Passing On Her Legacy
Kris Larsen and Jessica Young - co-presnters of Exploring the Effort Life of Supervision: How Laban can Support the Supervisory Relationship

As part of his thesis research, student Jeff Gilbert moderated the panel discussion Trudi Schoop: Passing On Her Legacy, featuring Cynthia Berrol, Sharon Chaiklin, Joan Chodorow, Susan D. Imus and Therese Young.

Stacey Hurst Chaired the Certification Board and lead efforts to have Registry and Board Certfication credentials for Dance/Movement Therapists.

Here alumni and faculty Shannon Lengerich, Stacey and faculty Lenore Hervey show off their new designations.

The 10th Annual Student/Faculty Dance Concert
July 9, 2009

This year's dance concert was a huge success thanks to our talented group of choreographers and dancers.

At the end of the concert, Chair Susan Imus announced our scholarship award winners and departmental recognition.

Congratulations to Danielle Laurion, recipient of the JGS Scholarship for continuing MA students
and to Kate Sopoci, recipient of the Warren Lamb Scholarship for our GLCMA students!

Further honors that evening included recognition of
Alumni Of The Year, Stacey Hurst and
Supervisor Of The Year, Kimberly Pinkston!

Congratulations to all for the wonderful work - stay tuned for photos!

Research Celebration
August 13, 2009

August 13th the Department toasted our thesis students with our annual Research Celebration.
The event allowed for new students, prospective students, faculty and staff to mingle and
discuss the scope and depth of the researchers' thesis topics.

The crowning moment of the Research Celebration is the announcement of a departmental scholarship
to send a chosen thesis student to present their research at the American Dance Therapy Association annual conference, held this year in Portland, OR, October 8 – 11, 2009.

This year, Sabrina Washington and Emma Barton were chosen to split the award. In addition to the department’s scholarship, Columbia College Chicago Provost and Senior Vice President Steven Kapelke honored our students with a second scholarship award given to Amanda Mitchell.

Congratulations Amanda, Sabrina and Emma!

Another exciting scholarship opportunity was announced as well. Ellen Stone Belic, long time faculty member of the department and Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees, honored the department with the Ellen Stone Belic Research Scholarship, set up to support a student’s research needs that require travel outside of the Chicagoland area. Current students enrolling in Research Methods this Fall will be given the application for the scholarship in mid-October. The scholarship will be available to one student a year for the next five years.

Not to be outdone, Provost Kapelke matched this scholarship by announcing a standing research scholarship sponsored jointly by his office and the School of Fine and Performing Arts. This scholarship is for travel specifically to the Laban Archives housed in the National Resource Center for Dance located at the University of Surrey in Guilford, England

WIP

August 21-23, 2009

In the interest of faculty development, Chair Susan Imus initiated the Writing Incentive Program.
Faculty recently attended a three day workshop designed to encourage and foster writing and publishing.
Three international consultants, published professionals in the field of research,
presented practical techniques to move attendees' ideas into publishable text.

News from the Department

Congratulations to our recent graduates!

From the back row, left to right: Jeff Gilbert, Amanda Mitchell, Alexandria D'Aurio, Kristina Fluty, Megan Blazek, Shannon Lengerich (Faculty), Paul Holmquist (Staff), Greta Polo, Jessica Young (Faculty), Kris Larsen (Faculty), Susan Imus (Chair), Lenore Hervey (Faculty), Anna O'Connell, Ashley Duquette, Aqueena Smith, Emma Barton, Jessica Melville, Andrea Welling, Nicole DiBacco, Kimberly Kaufman, Karla Karpowicz and Sabrina Washington.

Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling Graduate Program in Demo Magazine. Read the article...