Abstract

The assumptions of the body and spirit in dance/movement therapy (DMT) impact how we examine dance and their application for healing. This paper compares DMT that developed within Judeo-Christian worldviews and gimoo (qi-moo, or spirit-dance) that originated from Eastern, Confucian, Korean traditional medicine and Korean traditional dance. Cross-cultural critical reflections can offer new insights on different ways of observing and assessing movement for health as body-based practitioners and dance/movement therapists. The authors reflect on how our socio-culturally situated knowledge of the body and worldviews of health, dance, and healing frame how and what movement we see.

摘要

舞蹈/运动治疗 (DMT) 中对身体和精神的假设影响了我们检查舞蹈及其在治疗中的应用的方式。本文比较了在犹太基督教世界观中发展起来的 DMT 和起源于东方、儒家、韩国传统医学和韩国传统舞蹈的gimoo （qi-moo，或精神舞蹈）。跨文化批判性反思可以为身体从业者和舞蹈/运动治疗师观察和评估健康运动的不同方式提供新的见解。作者反思了我们对身体的社会文化背景知识以及健康、舞蹈和治疗的世界观如何塑造我们所看到的运动方式和内容。