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This was a posting to the ADTA listserve on 3/23/08
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I have been using the Octaband very successfully
with many different populations, e.g, Alzheimer's, elderly, adult psychiatric
and developmentally disabled. I find the sixteen arm type especially useful.
Congratulations on creating such an innovative dance/movement therapy
tool!
Peace,
Nancy Koprak,MA,ADTR,LCAT
This posting allows me the opportunity to introduce the wonderful improvisational dance class that Itake called Dancing Outside the Lines with Joan Green in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. This is only my third year with Joan, but for others in the class, it's probably more like 15 years. The class began, I believe, for dancers over age 50, but has opened up to include a few younger dancers. Our ages probably span late 30's to mid 80's. Joan inspires us with different warm ups and structures each week, and always keeps us on task, encouraging our spontaneity and heightening aesthetic appreciation.
Soon I will post some pictures taken by photographer Ian Travis Barnard of our class using the Octaband, the first time the Octaband has been used, to my knowledge, in an improvisational dance class for adults. Feel free to comment.
