The National Centre for Dance Therapy is honoured to welcome Dr. Suzi Tortora in Montreal for a new workshop on dance therapy with babies and young children, dedicated towards dance therapists, dance and health professionals, parents and all those who are interested in using dance therapy with this population.
Become aware of the different ways young children communicate, learn and express themselves, through their movements and their senses. Learn skills that will prove useful to all the professionals and parents involved with young children, with or without special needs. Dr. Suzi Tortora will present her dance therapy program Ways of Seeing, which explores the non-verbal clues of babies and young children and proposes activities favouring the growing attachment relationship and the social, emotional and cognitive development of the baby.
Dedicated to parents, educators and professionals, these activities can be used with families and groups and in therapeutic, hospital and preventative contexts, as well as for dyadic and individuals care.
Sunday, January 27th, from 9:30 to 12:30
1435 de Bleury, 4th floor
Rates $140 + taxes
Ed.D., BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC, NCC
Founder and Director of the Dancing Dialogue, LCAT LMHC PLLC
Dr. Suzi Tortora is a creative arts therapist, certified, by the New York State (LCAT), a certified mental health counsellor (LMHC) and a dance therapist certified by the American Dance Therapy Association (BC-DMT). Moreover, she received a PhD from the Teacher’s College of Columbia University. She is currently consulting on the project: “Mothers, babies and young children of September 11th 2001: a primary prevention project”, at the Columbia University psychiatry department, under the direction of the Dr. Beatrice Beebe. Suzi has also been working full-time at her private practice in Cold Springs and New York for the past 30 years, specializing in children and family therapy, traumas, pediatric mental health and adult chronic pain. Dr. Tortora is a pioneer in the dance therapy sector, having brought together the fields of pediatric mental health, dance therapy and non-verbal movement analysis.
Dr. Tortora is the international speaker on arts therapies of the Andrea Rizzo Foundation, having founded the pediatric dance therapy program at the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York in 2013, where she is still the main dance therapist. In 2010, she has received the Distinguished Dance Therapist Marian Chace Award, of the American Dance Therapy Association. She teaches in Europe, South America, New Zealand, Middle East and Asia and is a professor in institutions in the USA, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Argentine and China. She also teaches international webinars on the Ways of Seeing program for dance therapists and other professionals. She has published many articles and essays and her book The Dancing Dialogue: Using the communicative power of movement with young children is used in dance therapy training program all over the world.
Certified dance therapists (R-DMT) and internship students have the opportunity of having individual supervision sessions with Suzi Tortora on January 26 and on the afternoon of January 27, 2019.
If you are interested, please contact dansetherapie@grandsballets.com.
