What is Dance Movement Therapy (DMT)?
DMT is defined by the European Association Dance Movement Therapy (EADMT) as ‘the therapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical, spiritual and social integration of the individual.
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Introduction
In a rapidly changing world, we are compelled to reconsider the importance of closeness and farness as professionals whose practice uses embodied space, time and relationship to gravity as key elements. Humanity seems to be accelerating rapidly into an increasingly complex and predominantly digitized era with new means of communicating via social media, and accelerated technological advancements being rapidly incorporated into daily life. These developments are at the same time being mirrored by people feeling increasingly isolated. Pandemics are causing isolation, restrictions in touch, social distancing and distant socializing. All of this creates new more stressful and predominantly disembodied environments in which we live.
Bridging the gap between the real and virtual world or coping with the consequences of that growing gap is a challenge for our profession as dance movement therapists like never before. This ‘bridging’ process must include ways of transforming perceived obstacles or threats into new approaches, which fit these challenging times, providing inspiration and relief of suffering; while allowing all in our care not just to cope but also to flourish in these conditions.
We work with our clients sharing time and space in a therapeutic relationship that helps them to feel, to let go and express deep parts of themselves. Technology accelerates time and opens up new spaces for us all, where we take advantage of our creativity and flexibility in order to keep alive, as far as possible, the special nature of the embodied encounter in this new world. We renegotiate the shared space, the ways we connect, the sensorial channels we use. We open up to new possibilities, while attending to the profoundly ethical and respectful ways we meet, address and treat increasingly complex expressions of mental ill-health.
This exciting conference aims to address the themes described above and we call here for proposals reflecting a wide range of high-quality embodied, creative and neuroscientific approaches and research that help to ‘bridge these gaps’, contributing to choreographing a new world by way of the work of the contemporary dance movement therapist.
Conference sub themes are:
The Conference Organizing Committee cordially invites you to submit your proposal on the conference themes
easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eadmt22
Formats of proposals:
The criteria for selection will be:
The selection committee will also take into consideration:
There is the option to present any format of proposal by a pre-recorded format in case of difficulties regarding face-to-face attendance. The organizing Committee reserve the right to manage the total number of presenters accordingly and ask them to attend in person if required.
Your proposal should be submitted at easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eadmt22 before August 30th, 2021
Reduced Fee for presenters: 290 euros
FORMAT TO SEND THE CONTRIBUTIONS
Please, fill in the easychair the next information (guidelines for uploading your file can be found here). We recommend you prepare all this information in a Word document before you create your submission on easychair. Read carefully before you begin.
Personal details of the authors (to specify): Name / Surname / Address / Email / Phone contact / Profession /Place of work or study …- if they are more than one author, fill the info about each one separately
| Title of contribution |
| Short abstract (150 words) |
| Keywords (minimum 3) |
| Short biography (maximum 150 words): qualifications /experience / research … |
| Type of contribution (remove the non-valid option): Oral Research / Oral Clinical Case Study / Poster /Workshop /Film presentation |
| Length of preference (only for oral presentations): |
| Equipment needed: DVD player, Power point facilities, materials for workshop, …. |
| Have you published or presented on this topic recently? Please, specify |
| Do you intend to attend face to face?: Yes /No |
| In case you can’t attend the conference in person, would you be able to pre-record your contribution? Yes / No |
| Proposal (800 words):
Oral and Poster presentation must include: Introduction, objectives, methodology, results, conclusions and references (no more than 5 in APA format). Remember that Poster presentation requires a synthesis, so avoid lot of text please, and give more importance to graphics, drawings or tables to show your results. For Workshops please include: introduction, learning objectives, methodology with evidences that the material has been put into practice or not, structure of the workshop, references. For Film Presentation: Film and video are excellent ways of capturing and communicating moving bodies in real time. If you have examples of work that fit the themes and that are novel, innovative and inspiring for development of our profession then please consider submitting them. Length can’t exceed 15 minutes. Performance Art / Happenings / Events: The conference is making an option available for those contributions that may be of performance/performative in nature that will have the theme of the conference in mind. Examples are: Performance (s) Art, or Free-form happening(s) within the conference venue or the environment around it, reflecting on/celebrating the improvisatory and spontaneous nature of what we do. |
Reviewers’ Criteria for Oral presentations (Research and Clinical Case-Study), Poster and Workshops
| 3 = Sufficient / Highly Competent | 2 = Adequate /Fairly Competent | 1 = Needs more work / Not Yet Competent | |
| Relevance to Conference theme | The submission is highly relevant to the topic. | Some aspects of the submission are relevance to conference theme | The submission theme is not relevant enough to conference theme |
| Foundations, Objectives and Methodology | Submission represents the theoretical foundations, objectives and methodology accurately. | Submission represents the theoretical foundations, objectives and methodology not sufficiently clearly. | Submission badly represents the foundations, objectives and methodology. |
| For research related submissions: Results and conclusions
For case study submissions: Rational and procedures |
Submission represents the results and conclusions accurately. If the submission is for a workshop, evidences of its previous implementation are clearly showed.
Submission presents the setting, rationale and applied DMT approach and procedures accurately. If the submission is for a workshop, learning activities that will be applied should be clearly described. |
Submission represents the results and conclusions not sufficiently clearly. More details are needed.
Submission presents the setting, rationale and applied DMT approach and procedures sufficiently. More details are needed. |
Submission badly represents the author’s results and conclusions.
Submission presents the setting, rationale and applied DMT approach and procedures unsufficiently. |
| Innovation, originality and relevance | Submission fully explores the implications of arguments in particularly thoughtful, insightful, and/or original ways. | Paper does not address some aspects relating originality and relevance. | Paper does not show any innovate, original or relevance aspects. |
| Adherence to conference format guidelines | Format is according to the guidelines. There are no incomplete or run-on sentences. Sentence structure is mostly clear. | Format is not exactly adequate to the guidelines. Sentence structure is sometimes confusing. | Format needs to be checked. It does not adhere to the guidelines. Sentence structure is consistently confusing. |
| Standard of English | English language is clear and appropriate. There are virtually no spelling or grammatical errors. | English language could be improved. There are some grammatical errors. | English is confused and unacceptable or poor |
Levels for accepting or rejecting a submission:
Accept: ≥12
Reject: ≤8
Weak accept: 9 – 11
For more information and questions please contact <eadmt22@eadmt.com>
If you need assistance with your proposal please contact <eadmt22@eadmt.com>
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DMT is defined by the European Association Dance Movement Therapy (EADMT) as ‘the therapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical, spiritual and social integration of the individual.