Biodanza

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Biodanza (Gr. Bios "life", Spanish danza "folk dance"; "dance of life") is a dance therapy-oriented exercise system that uses music, movement and encounter in the group to stimulate human potentials and integrate them Integrate identity. The goal is to experience more enjoyment and joie de vivre in life. It was developed in South America by the psychologist and artist Rolando Mario Toro Araneda .

Biodanza courses

A biodanza course usually consists of several dates. The individual appointments usually take place once a week and usually last 1.5 to 3 hours. The entire course lasts for 2 to 3 or more months to a year. Courses and individual dates are called differently in practice: The course is called a course, class, group, etc. A single appointment is referred to as an evening, session, vivencia (Spanish experience), lesson, class or similar. In this article, course stands for the entire course and session stands for a single appointment.

A Biodanza session usually consists of two parts:

  1. a discussion group and
  2. a sequence of individual dances.

Each of these dances is intended to provide the participants with enriching experiences and is therefore also known as Vivencia (see above). Deviations from this structure are possible, especially in the case of weekend workshops.

The language in a session is predominantly poetic and figurative and adapted to the participants and the current situation in the group. The instructions used by the biodanza manager are intended to stimulate the experience.

The discussion group

The discussion round serves as the first mutual getting to know each other and a voluntary communication of one's own feelings . Furthermore, the leader introduces the planned topic, from which the individual design elements of the following session result.

The dances in the session

The sequence of the dances is put together according to the criteria of the biodanza theory and adapted to the situation in the group. It should give the participants - as a whole as well as in each individual dance - suggestions for their own development process and enable concrete steps in this process.

The individual dance is presented and motivated by the biodanza manager. The participants are then asked, individually or together, to find their own individual implementation of the dance presented. The participants dance individually, with one or more (also changing) dance partners or together in the whole group.

For each dance, specially selected music is played, which is primarily intended to support the experience. The aim is to achieve pleasant and intense dance and encounter experiences. According to Biodanza, a good integration of feelings into the overall identity is a fundamental requirement for one's own development process. In order to make it easier for the dancers to immerse themselves in the direct experience of themselves, verbal communication is reduced to a minimum during the dance.

Biodanza values ​​the inner, psychosomatic effects of the dances. Aesthetic value, sportiness, special steps or step sequences etc. do not play a role. The dances expand the behavior and movement repertoire of the participants with a lot of fun and joy. In the medium and long term, they also lead to changes in everyday behavior and feelings.

method

Biodanza is seen by its founder as a school of life for human encounters and life satisfaction. The shortest description is: La poética del encuentro! (Spanish: "The poetry of human encounter"). “Biodanza is used for health prophylaxis. ... The aim is to make it easier for people to access their creativity, joie de vivre and the ability to love. ”Biodanza is increasingly being used - in an adapted form - by some clinically working biodanza teachers in inpatient psychotherapy and rehabilitation (e.g. for addictions, after cancer and in some psychosomatic clinics) use.

Biodanza is understood by its founder as a method for everyone.

history

Rolando Toro

The founder of Biodanza is the Chilean psychologist Rolando Mario Toro Araneda (born April 19, 1924 in Chile, † February 16, 2010 in Chile).

He laid the first foundations from 1968 in his work with psychiatric patients. He held a chair in Art and Expression Psychology at the Instituto de Estética de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and was a lecturer in the research center of the Medical Faculty at the University of Chile in the field of medical anthropology . In this context he organized dance events from 1968 to 1973 for patients of the psychiatric clinic in Santiago de Chile, which he called Psicodanza (psychotance). His original goal was to make the psychiatry of the time more humane. He made his first experiences with the effect of different music and movement exercises on various diseases. This formed the basis of his later expanded theoretical model of the mode of action of Biodanza.

His events soon became popular with student circles and other people. He saw a general human benefit for many participants that went beyond the original psychiatric context. In order to take into account the claim of the method to be holistic and integrative, the system was renamed Biodanza and theoretically differentiated by him and his students and expanded with many practical elements.

In 1974 he emigrated to Buenos Aires , where he applied Biodanza to an institute for cancer follow-up care. In Argentina he was appointed professor at the Universidad Abierta Interamericana de Buenos Aires .

In 1979 he went to Brazil and opened the first institute for Biodanza there. He also continued to work with the mentally ill and with women being treated for breast cancer. In 1989 he emigrated to Milan, Italy. In 1998 he returned to his native Chile.

Rolando Toro was President and one of the founders of the IBF (International Biocentric Foundation), which currently coordinates most of Biodanza's activities. He has given workshops and lectures all over the world. In Brazil he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Paraiba. He was the father of 18 children. He died at the age of 85 on Shrove Tuesday 2010.

distribution

Biodanza has spread over the years in the form of biodanza schools, courses and weekend workshops, starting from South America in Europe, Central and North America and parts of Africa.

Biodanza in Germany

In Germany, the first Biodanza school was founded in Hamburg in the mid-1980s. There are now training schools in Berlin, Bremen, Freiburg, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich, Münster, Kassel and Stuttgart.

The trademark Biodanza is a term protected by the trademark and patent office in Germany since 1995.

Associations and clubs

There are several clubs and associations related to Biodanza. The International Biodanza Foundation (IBF), Biodanza World Association (BWA), the German Biodanza Society (DBG) and other local associations in Germany. IBF and BWA are active worldwide, the DBG is active throughout Germany.

research

Biodanza was v. a. examined by the work of Stueck and Villegas in the context of dissertation and habilitation projects since 1998 at the universities of Leipzig and Buenos Aires. The Leipzig researchers have published results that include: a. Significant improvements in the expression of emotions in social situations, reduced fear of encounter and increased ability to separate as well as antidepressant effects of Biodanza prove. Furthermore, there was a more aggressive problem-solving behavior and improved anger regulation. Positive effects could be found in relation to increased optimism and more relaxation-oriented attitudes, higher capacity for pleasure and reduced psychosomatic complaints. Another study by Wolff shows that people with Biodanza experience also enjoy music more in everyday life. Across cultures, biodanza practitioners use music in a more targeted manner to regulate their emotional state in everyday life.

literature

  • Helga Barbara Gundlach Sonnemann: Religious dance. Shapes - functions - current examples . diagonal-Verlag, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-927165-68-9 . ( Religious Studies Series 13) (At the same time: Hannover, Univ., Master's thesis, 1999)
  • Marcus Stück: New ways: Yoga and Biodanza in stress reduction for teachers . Schibri-Verlag, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-937895-91-8 . ( New ways in psychology and pedagogy 2) (Simultaneously: Leipzig, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2007)
  • Marcus Stück, Alejandra Villegas: Dancing to Health? Empirical research on Biodanza = Danzar hacia la salud? = La salute attraverso la danza? = Dance towards health? Schibri-Verlag, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-86863-001-5 . ( Biodanza in the mirror of science 1)
  • Alejandra Villegas: The danced way. Biodanza processes and effects. First empirical research on Biodanza . Schibri-Verlag, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-937895-84-0 . ( Biodanza in the mirror of science 2) (Simultaneously: Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 2006)
  • Rolando Toro: The Biodanza System. Tinto Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941684-04-1 .
  • Sanclair Lemos: The Experience of Transcendence. Tinto Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941684-02-7 .
  • Tom John Wolff: Biodanza and its effect on everyday use of music - a target group analysis and cross-cultural study. Diplomica, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8428-9562-1 .
  • Tom John Wolff: Make love with life and become who you are: healing community and biodanza . Verlag Neue Erde, Saarbrücken 2016, ISBN 978-3890606866
  • Veronica Toro, Raul Terren: Biodanza, the poetry of encounter. Tinto Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-941684-09-6 .

Web links

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  1. ↑ cf. Wolff 2016, pp. 32–37.
  2. ↑ Deutsche Biodanza Gesellschaft  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.deutschebiodanzagesellschaft.de  
  3. ↑ Piece, Marcus and Villegas, Alejandra (2008)
  4. ↑ a b IBF website multilingual (Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese)
  5. ↑ From the preamble to the statutes of the German Biodanza Society  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.deutschebiodanzagesellschaft.de  
  6. ↑ cf. Wolff 2016. pp. 32–37.
  7. ↑ a b c Rolando Toro  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. detailed biography at www.biodanza-vorarlberg.at@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.biodanza-vorarlberg.at  
  8. ↑ Biography Rolando Toro ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. IBF website (multilingual, obviously not updated after his death)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biodanza.org
  9. ^ Obituary by Rolando Toro at www.connection.de
  10. ↑ Rights to the trademark "Biodanza"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (German Biodanza Society)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.deutschebiodanzagesellschaft.de  
  11. ↑ a b cf. Villegas 2008, p. 122.
  12. ↑ cf. Wolff 2013, pp. 113–116.