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Expressive Arts

Creative Arts Symposium

Creating Sacred Space (Workshop)

Dance Therapy Overview, by Selene Vega (1992)

SoulCollage

The Arts

In art there are no final answers; there are only questions that lead to new ways of understanding. - Katherine Kuh

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the songs of a bird? - Pablo Picasso

Art is the extension of the power of rites and ceremonies to unite men, through a shared celebration, to all incidents and scenes of life. - John Dewey

Art cannot be known but only experienced, and art belongs to man. When great art is so deeply felt and understood, it ceases to be a collection of beautiful objects and becomes instead a succession of gateways. And whenever this happens art reveals the path of beauty. - Alexander Eliot

Art consists, not in calling a thing by the right name, and not in calling it by the wrong name, but in evoking that which has no name. - Albert Guerard

Symbolic art goes back through Time even to beginnings that are forgotten; evades the ephemeral and twines like a tendril about the essential, drawing sustenance from all great moments; penetrates below surfaces, through flesh and nerves to the quick core of being; taps the very sources of joy and grief, and startles from their slumber those race-memories that live unnoted in the still places of the soul. - Shaemas O'Sheel

The poet's creative life, like the life of a dancer dancing - "Dying into a dance, an agony of trance" - is lived in a trancelike poise between the two, between the all-uniting unconscious and separating consciousness, between universal and personal, "between his two eternities, that of race and that of soul." - James Olney, from Yeats

The arts are, I believe, about to take upon their shoulders the burdens that have fallen from the shoulders of priests, and to lead us back upon our journey by filling our thoughts with the essences of things, and not with things. - W.B. Yeats

Artists are ambassadors from an alternate reality. - Maxine Greene

Bibliography

Dance Therapy

Adler, Janet. (2002). Offering from the Conscious Body: The Discipline of Authentic Movement. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions.

Bartal, Leah & Ne'eman, Nira. (1993). The Metaphoric Body: guide to Expressive Therapy through Images and Archetypes. Bristol, Pennsylvania: Jessica Kinglsey Publishers.

Chodorow, Joan. (1991). Dance Therapy & Depth Psychology: The Moving Imagination. NY: Routledge.

Hendricks, Gay & Kathlyn. (1993). At the Speed of Life: A New Approach to Personal Change Through Body-Centered Therapy. NY: Bantam.

Lewis, Penny. (1993). Creative Transformation: The Healing Power of the Arts. Wilmette, IL: Chiron.

Lewis, Penny. (1979). Theoretical Approaches in Dance-Movement Therapy, Vol. 1 & 2. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Pub. Co.

Drama Therapy, Theatre Games, & Expressive Arts Therapy

Blatner, Adam. Acting-In: Practical Applications of Psychodramatic Methods. NY: Springer Pub. Co., 1988.

Blatner, Adam and Allee. The Art of Play: An Adult's Guide to Reclaiming Imagination and Spontaneity. NY: Human Sciences Press, 1988.

Cameron, Julia. (1992). The Artist's Way: A spiritual path to higher creativity. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee.

Dayton, Tian. The Drama Within: Psychodrama and Experiential Therapy. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 1994.

Dayton, Tian. Drama Games: Techniques for Self-Development. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 1990.

Diaz, Adriana. Freeing the Creative Spirit: Drawing on the Power of Art to Tap the Magic and Wisdom Within. SF: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

Nachmanovitch, Stephen. Free Play: The Power of Improvisation in Life and the Arts. Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1990.

Rogers, Natalie. The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing. Palo Alto, CA: Science & Behavior Books, Inc., 1993.

Whyte, David. (1994). The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the preservation of the soul in corporate America. New York: Currency Doubleday.

Wise, Nina. (2002). A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self-Expression and spiritual practice for those who have time for neither. New York: Broadway Books.

Music & Rhythm

Gardner, Kay. Sounding the Inner Landscape: Music as Medicine. Stonington, ME: Caduceus Pub., 1990.

Gardner-Gordon, Joy. The Healing Voice: Traditional & Contemporary Toning, Chanting, and Singing. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1993.

Gass, Robert. Chanting: Discovering Spirit in Sound. NY: Broadway Books, 1999.

Hamel, Peter M. Through Music to the Self. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1976. Philosophy and theory with many quotes from classic works that are not readily available.

Hawkins, Holly Blue. The Heart of the Circle. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1999.

Newham, Paul. The Singing Cure: An Introduction to Voice Movement Therapy. Boston: Shambala, 1994.

Redmond, Layne. When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm. NY: Three Rivers Press, 1997.

Schnebly-Black, Julia, and Moore, Stephen F. The Rhythm Inside: Connecting Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Music. Portland, OR: Rudra Press, 1997.