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University Daily Kansan, April 1, 1981
Dance therapy professor conducts workshop at KU
By LISA BOLTON Staff Reporter
The tiny woman with fluffy gray curls and plum-colored leotards beat a tom-tom and chanted softly. She darted barefoot from one person to the next in the circle of about two dozen children and adults sitting on the floor, armcrases and jingling bells to the drumbeat.
The group of dance education majors, retarded adults, and disabled children played louder and faster until a crash of cymbals on a young child boy ended the performance with a Toughed.
"That was wonderful," said the woman, Norma Canner, smiling widely, as she stooped to hug the boy, who blushed and bowed stiffly to the applause of the group.
Canner, a professor of dance/movement therapy at Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass., and professor of dance therapy at Harvard during the summer, was visiting KU recently to conduct one of a series of workshops on dance and movement therapy sponsored by the department of health, physical education and recreation.
"Dance is the most basic form of expression," she said. "Everybody can dance; it is fun."
CANNER HAS taught and practiced creative movement therapy since shortly after World War II when her two children entered school.
Her students are people who work with disabled children and adults, and she teaches a technique of encouraging self-expression through dance based on the theory that everyone, regardless of physical or emotional need, the need and the potential to express himself.
"The more emotion—sadness, anger, joy—that you hold inside yourself, the more withdrawn and sad you are," she said.
"Releasing our emotions makes you alive."
Once, while developing a movement therapy program for the Massachusetts department of mental health, she met a man who had a little more than lie in her bed in an institution.
"stopped and made contact with that little girl by doing an eye-dance with her," Canner said. "I felt really cool."
Her career in dance therapy actually began in theater.
"I took off to New York to become an actress when I was 18," she said. "Everybody was poor in 1938, but people, especially women, were able to much more generous with what they'd have."
When Canner's husband moved to Toledo, Ohio, after serving in World War I, one began a study of the American language.
"I've taught prisoners, aged people, hand-trapped, normal neurotics," she said. "The doctor says we don't need to."
"Dance doesn't belong to the dancer. It belongs to the human race."
BOB GREENSPAN/Kaneen staff
Dance therapist Norma Canner demonstrates dance therapy technique during a workshop Friday. Canner, professor of dance/movement therapy at Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass., and professor of dance therapy at Harvard during the summer, visited the campus last week.
On Campus
TODAY
THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM will present Helen Vendler speaking on "Yeats's Byzantium Poems" at 4 p.m. in 4058 Wareham Hall
THE CONTEMPLIATIVE PLASTIC SESSION
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THE WOMEN AT WORK LUNCHONE SERIES will feature Constance Bernstein speaking on "Women in the Investment Comunity" at noon in Alcove B of the Kansas Union
THE BASICS OF AEROBIC will be presented
at 3.30 p.m. in the Ecumenical Christian
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TOMORROW
A STUDIENT RECITAL by Paul Joalin will be at $ p.m. in the Swartooth Rival Hall in Murphy HI.
AN AFRICAN ARTS LECTURE by Dorothy Pennington on "African Vision and World View" will be given at 8 p.m. in the Main Gallery of the Museum of Anthropology.
A STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION FORUM on "Alternatives to Traditional Legal Practice—The Public Interest Law" will be at 12:30 p.m. in 10Green Hall.
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A UNIVERSITY OPEN FORUM with
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at 2:30 p.m. in 108 Blake Hall.
THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL MEETING will be at:3:30m in 108 Blake Hall.
THE LIFE-ISSUE SEMINAR ON SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES will discuss "Submission" at 7 p.m. in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
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