Dzagbe Cudjoe
MA
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Dance and Movement Therapy Expert
Dzagbe Cudjoe Quick Facts
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- Dzagbe Cudjoe is a Dance Movement Therapist and ethnologist with wide experience of Dance in Africa and Europe. As an ethnologist her main field of research was into West African traditional religion. As a Dance Movement Therapist her area of specialization is working with children who have challenging behaviour or severe physical and intellectual Special Needs. Dzagbe is now working on helping the parents of such children to appreciate the healing effects of dance.
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- e-manual Dance to Health - Help your special Needs Child Through Improvisational Dance to view free extracts CLICK HERE
- Career Focus
- Dzagbe is now working on helping the parents of children with special needs to appreciate the healing effects of dance.
- Affiliation
- Dzagbe holds the Certificate of the Association of Dance Therapists International as a Dance Therapist in the Community and is also a Member of the International Dance Council CID. In addition she is a member of the World Federation of Healing.
Her professional experience as an ethnologist has included research and working in museums in Germany, Ghana and Nigeria.It was while conducting research into traditional religions in Ghana and Nigeria that she first became aware of the therapeutic and liberating power of Dance.
The turning point for her occurred while she was attending a physical theater and dance course at a low point in her life and the part of the course on how to transform ideas and feelings into dance allowed her to personally experience the therapeutic and restorative power of Dance.
It was at this time that she began working towards the Certificate of the Association of Dance Therapists as a Dance Therapist in the Community. Although Dzagbe had attended ballet and tap class as a child she is not a trained professional dancer. She is a member of the World Federation of Healing and this has always informed her approach to Dance Therapy. She is also a Member of the UNESCO International Dance Council CID.
Her website Dance to Health For more Information visit Dance to Health is devoted to all aspects of Dance and especially Dance and Movement Therapy for Children with Learning,Emotional and/or Physical Problems.The emphasis is on the health, creative and spiritual aspects of dance as a therapy.
Dzagbe has authored a book "Dance to Health - Help your Special Needs Child through Improvisational Dance" which is immediately downloadable via the internet.What she offers is not a cure but will bring about greater Harmony betwee Mind-Body-and-Spirit. . This approach fits in well with Homeschooling Pro grammes.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Excerpts Dance to Health-Help Your Special Needs Child Through Imporovisational Dance
http://www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com/Free-chapters-D-2-H.html
Dance and Movement Therapy
http://www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com/dance.html
Visually Impaired Children and Dance
http://www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com/visually-impaired.html
Deaf Blind Children and Dance
http://www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com/deaf-blind.html
Childhood Obesity and Dance
http://www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com/childhood-obesity.html
Dance Workouts as Excercise
http://www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com/dance-workouts.html
Children and Dance Meditation
http://www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com/dance-meditation.html
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Wheelchair Dancing and Your Child with Special Needs
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Dance Can Improve Health
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Teaching Your Baby to Read
Recently it came to my notice that Physical Therapist Dr Glenn Dorman has celebrated his nintieth birthday. His book, "How to Teach Your Baby to Read," co-athored with Janet Dorman over forty years ago, started a whole new approach to teaching reading to the very young. It all began while Glenn Dorman was teaching brain damaged preschool children to read at Philadelphia's Institutes for Achievement of Human Potential. Dolman claims that a baby will learn the written word as easily as spoken language and can even learn to read before he or she learns to speak.
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Deaf Blind Children Can Be Taught To Enjoy Dance
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At What Age Should Children Start Dance Lessons?
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Dance Sport, Exercise And Health
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Seven Ages Of Man
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Puppets Help Children to Reveal their Deepest Feelings
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Help Your Child To Experience The Rhythm Of Life
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Dance to Health
Dance to Health is devoted to all aspects of Dance and especially Dance and Movement Therapy for Children with Learning and/or Physical Problems.The emphasis is on the health, creative and spiritual aspects of dance as a therapy.
June 16, 2008
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Dance to Health
Dzagbe Cudjoe is a Dance Movement Therapist and ethnologist.Her area of specialization is working with children who have challenging behaviour or severe physical,emotional and intellectual Special Needs.
January 14, 2008
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Dance to Health
Dance to Health is devoted to all aspects of Dance and especially Dance and Movement Therapy for Children with Learning and/or Physical Problems.The emphasis is on the health, creative and spiritual apsects of dance as a therapy.
December 4, 2007
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dzagbe Cudjoe
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frighten us.
We ask ourselves,
who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us: it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
Nelson Mandela 1994 Inaugeral Speech
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity.
Dr. Albert Einstein
Each one of us can be an oasis of Peace.
Desmond Tutu
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Dance and Movement Therapy
My Costume says Look at Me!
Puppets and their Value for Children with Special Needs
Childhood Obesity and Dance
Liturgical Dance
The Connection betwee Movement and Child Development
Visually Impaired Children and Dance
Disabled Dance Companies
Have you Tried Wheelchair Dancing?
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