Dance Education Faculty: Miriam Roskin Berger
| Miriam Roskin Berger Dancer, Dance Therapist | |
Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger has taught dance therapy since l975. She was a member of the Jean Erdman Theatre of Dance in the 1960s, and a student of Alwin Nikolais, Martha Graham and Mary Anthony. She is the immediate past president of the American Dance Therapy Association, of which she was a founding member. She has been actively involved with the development of the profession for many years, and is a member of the Academy of Registered Dance Therapists. She was formerly a co-editor of the American Journal of Dance Therapy, and now serves on its editorial board and that of The Arts in Psychotherapy. From l970 to l990, she was the Director of the Creative Arts Therapies Department at Bronx Psychiatric Center, the largest in the United States, where many dance therapists were trained. Current activities include consultation and teaching in Sweden, Holland, The Czech Republic and Germany as well as work on a research project in movement psychodiagnosis. She has also done workshops and lectures in France, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Norway and Russia. She has presented dance therapy workshops and papers at many conferences, including the Rockefeller Foundation Symposium on The Healing Role of Arts (1979), the American Psychiatric Association Conference on the Creative Arts Therapies (1980), the 9th International Congress on Aesthetics in Yugoslavia (l980), the Rockefeller Conference on Creative Arts Therapies in Bellagio, Italy (l984), The MEDART World Congress (l991), the International Congress of Dance Therapy in Berlin (1994). She has published articles on dance therapy and produced a videotape, Non-Verbal Group Process in Dance Therapy. An early student of dance therapy pioneers Marian Chace and Irmgaard Bartenieff, she also studied non-verbal communication with Albert Scheflen, Marion North, Judith Kestenberg and Warren Lamb. Dr. Berger is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in the World.
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