Inspirees DMT program recently has been proved and listed by ADTA for the Alternate Route training.  In total 14 programs are listed including Pratt Institute, Inspirees and others universities and institutes http://www.adta.org/Default.aspx?pageId=378249.  Among them, Inspirees is the only one out of US which provides Alternate Route training.  This further enhances the position of Inspirees as the leading institution for DMT professional training in China.

Alternate Route training provides one of the important approaches for professionals to obtain R-DMT from ADTA.

Dance Movement Therapy - A Healing Art, by Fran J Levy, will have its Chinese edition available in 2012.  The book has become a classical title and widely used by many dance therapy programs in the universities in US.  As the leading dance therapy professional training institution in China, Inspirees undoubtly becomes the first choice for Levy and American National Dance Association for the Chinese edition of her book. The second edition has 335 pages and was published in 2005. The book contains vast amount of information on the history, theory, schools and application of dance therapy.  The Chinese edition will be of great helps for people in China for their study and understanding of dance therapy.


Lunch with Ms. Fran Levy in New York

Zvika Frank received ADTA Outstanding Achievement Award at the annual conference of ADTA held this year.  This is the first time ADTA ever gave such award to dance therapist out of US.  Zvika is the third ADTA award receiver among the Inspirees dance therapy teaching faculty.  The other two are Joan Wittig (2006) and Christina Devereaux (2008). What an honor! Let us give warm congratulation to Zvika! Ellen Schelly Hill，Subcommittee for Approval of Alternate Route Courses, ADTA Committee on Approval mentioned to our other teacher Ted Ehrhardt：I did enjoy the conference and had the pleasure of meeting Zvika Frank. What a great China teaching team!