I Check in --------------- II Unit: The Circle Theme: The Circle, the Pulsation, the Group, the Body Introduction The circle is a frame or formation that has contained dance since ancient times. For this reason is has also being the shape used to provide dance medicine for our early human communities. To this day, the circle provides an opportunity for a type of communal embodied integration that is emotionally and psychologically healing. Dance rituals, for instance, which as stated by Halprin (2015) are dances with a purpose, have traditionally been created to affect the world. Thus, the circle, the procession, the conga, and other forms of dance rituals, have given shape to communal healing gatherings. Dance movement therapists have adopted the circle as a viable way of providing a frame for group therapy. ---------------- III Learning Objectives Understand how the Cartesian model affects the body-mind connec...
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