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.
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