In Conversation with History Holders of the American Dance Therapy Association: Martha Davis

In this series of 15 videos, Dr. Jacelyn Biondo is joined in conversation by 16 first-generation dance therapists who have studied directly with the foundational practitioners and theorists of the professional field of dance therapy. In each conversation, these women share their stories and wisdom in their own words, passing their knowledge on to future generations. This archival video series was made possible by funding from the Marian Chace Foundation.
Martha Davis, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with a Certificate in Family Therapy and co-founded the program that became the Certification Program of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York. After she trained with Irmgard Bartenieff in movement assessment, she developed the Movement Psychodiagnostic Inventory (MPI) which has been used by dance therapists working with psychiatric patients. She has taught movement assessment in four dance/movement therapy graduate programs and advised students on their thesis research. Dr. Davis has studied nonverbal communication for over 50 years in universities and hospitals in New York and Philadelphia and published several books and many articles on topics such as movement in relation to the psychotherapy process, clinical states, and interview behavior.

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Thank you for sharing your journey and experiences, this is such important information for all American DMTs to know about, I appreciate all you shared and I love Irmgards work so very much, it lives so deep in my body and I am grateful I got to once do a movement choir with her