Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children presented by Suzi Tortora, Ed.D., ADTR, CMA

Dr. Tortora is the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue: Healing & Expressive Arts - A center for movement, music, and dance-based arts that support healing and self-expression, in Cold Spring and NYC. Among her many roles and activities, she instructs parent-infant/toddler classes, and is the author of The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

Describe the role of nonverbal and movement-based play experiences in all aspects of development

Describe how the nonverbal component of multisensory experience influences the attachment relationship

List specific tools for children with issues in communication/relating and motor delays

Describe how to add movement and music activities with families and in community settings.

November 21 - 26, 2006

Come Dance with me! An Integrative Team Approach to PEdiatric Cancer Care through Dance Movement Psychotherapy, Integrative Medicine & Child Life

Suzi Tortora & Jocelyn Shaw, for Child Life of Greater New York, 13th Annual Professional Development Conference
New York Academy of Medicine, 2 E 103rd St, NYC

Choreographing Collaboration: A joint conference of American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) & National Dance Education Organization (NDEO)

4th Annual LEICC Provider Day Sponsored by Dutchess and Ulster Counties and St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers

Where: The Atrium (St. Francis Hospital) 241 North Road, Poughkeepsie

Collaborating with a Mission: Spreading the Gift of DMT
A panel with Susan Rizzo Vincent, Suzi Tortora, Christina Devereaux, Jocelyn Shaw, Sharon O' Neill Mulcahy, and Jean Basiner

Move Baby Move! The Essential Role of Movement in all Levels of develpment - 7th Forum on Early Childhood Settings

Long Beach, California

The Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies - LIMS NYC and the Bratislava in Movement Association invite you for the

"LABAN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY PROJECT" Performances, Conference, Workshops and Panel Discussions

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the International Festival of Contemporary Dance

BRATISLAVA IN MOVEMENT 2006 - October 6 – 13th, 2006
Artistic Director: Miroslava Kovarova Laban Curator: Regina Miranda

Confirmed presenters and/or workshop teachers include:
Valerie Preston-Dunlop - Guest of Honor –UK, Suzanne Linke – Germany – Keynote speaker and Opening Night Performance, Karen Bradley - US, Thomas Casciero - US, Martha Eddy - US, Peggy Hackney - US, Deborah Yahav Heifetz - I, Janet Kaylo - CAN, Suzanne Linke - GER, Angela Loureiro – FR, Vera Maletic - US, Marina Martins - BR, Virginia Reed - US, Marina Salomon - BR, Elizabeth Schwartz - FR, Suzi Tortora - US

The Festival includes Performances, Conference, Workshops and Panel Discussions As a part of the Festival, the CONFERENCE, entitled Laban & Performing Arts, is intended for researchers and scholars of performance, dance, theater, music, and dance education.

The CONFERENCE will happen in two parts: October 7 and 8: Panel Discussions.

From the 9th to the 13th : Presentation of Academic Papers

SEPTEMBER 2006

September 30th 2006

Suzi Tortora's
Dancing Dialogue Healing & Expressive Arts OPEN HOUSE

Come meet the teachers and have some fun! 10% discount if you sign up for a class!
FREE DEMO CLASSES! click here to download flyer

JULY 2006

July 9, 2006

Symposium 9: Support Groups and Mother-infant Bonding Consultations for Mothers Pregnant and Widowed on 9-11-01; with Anni Bergman, Donna Demetri Friedman, Rita Reiswig, Mark Sossin, and Suzi Tortora: World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) Symposium Paris, France:

Exploring Children’s Love of Movement
from typical to atypical development Infancy
Institute Infants, Toddlers, Families:
Supporting their Growth Bank Street College, NYC
June 22, 2005
9-11:15 am, & 1-3:15 pm
Contact www.infancyinstitute@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4728
for more info & to register

MAY 2006

Suzi Tortora is in the May 22, 2006 issue of the New Yorker Magazine

Featured in Malcolm Gladwell's article titled "What the Dog Saw" Cesar Millan and the enigma of presence.

The subject of the entire piece is The Power of Presence - how the Dog Whisperer does it. It is about a dog trainer (Cesar Millan) who is brilliant rehabilitating and training dogs. Dr Tortora was interviewed as a movement specialist and was asked what she saw in Cesar and the dog's owners movement and overall presence that might explain Cesar's success - after meeting Dr Tortora, the journalist looked further into her work with children, particularly her work with children along the autistic spectrum, and wrote about that as well.

INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF TRAUMA:

WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED IN OUR WORK WITH MOTHERS AND INFANTS AFFECTED BY THE TRAUMA OF 9/11

Anni Bergman, Sally Moskowitz, Rita Reiswig, Mark Sossin, and Suzi Tortora

New York Academy of Medicine 2 East 103rd Street, New York, New York

ANNI BERGMAN is Faculty and Member, IPTAR and New York Freudian Society (NYFS); Associate Professor, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Co-Founder and Co-Director, Parent-Infant Training Program at the NYFS. SALLY MOSKOWITZ is a Member, Faculty, and Supervisor, IPTAR; Supervisor, CUNY Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology and NYU Postdoctoral Program. RITA REISWIG is Member and Faculty, IPTAR; Member and Faculty, NYFS Child Analytic Training Program; Co-founder and Co-director, NYFS Parent-Infant Training Program. MARK SOSSIN is Associate Professor of Psychology, Pace University; Faculty and Supervisor, NYFS; Vice-President, Child Development Research; Faculty and Supervisor, Derner Institute Postdoctoral Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. SUZI TORTORA is a Nonverbal Movement Analyst, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Pediatrics; Faculty, Postgraduate Institute for Infants, Children & Families, Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, and Pratt Institute.

The World Trade Center Project was conceived by Beatrice Beebe, Phyllis Cohen, and Joseph Jaffe, in collaboration with Anni Bergman and Sally Moskowitz, as a primary prevention and intervention project for pregnant 9/11 widows and their unborn or newly born babies and their older children. The Project consists of support groups for mothers and their babies and toddlers; mother-child video bonding consultations; feedback sessions with the mothers using the videotapes; and therapist peer-supervision and support group. The authors will present specific aspects of their work with these families, including the mother’s transmission of the lost father to the infant (Reiswig), the disruption of primary maternal preoccupation in grieving mothers (Moskowitz), the nature of children’s play in the wake of traumatic loss (Sossin), and the dynamic interplay of the maternal psychic state and the infant’s emerging psyche as viewed through nonverbal movement analysis (Tortora).

Phyllis Cohen, CO-director of the World Trade Center Mother-Infant Project will lead a discussion following the presentations. Dr. Cohen is Founder, Director, Faculty, and Supervisor, The New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence; and Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU Department of Applied Psychology.

Steven Ellman, Anni Bergman & Carolyn Ellman

President Program Committee Co-chairs

Program Committee: Jeanne Even, Roslyn Goldner, Laurence Gould, Judy Ann Kaplan, Carol Kaye,

Kathy Krauthamer, Ellen Sinkman, Neal Vorus, Tracey Strasser Vorus, Florence Williams, and Arnold Wilson

May 11, 2006
Thursday
10:00 – 11:30am

Don't miss the "New York Zero-to-Three Network: clinical roundtable presentation" at the Ackerman Institute, 149 E. 78th St, New York, NY. 6-8pm

In this roundtable, Dr. Suzi Tortora will explore the expressive quality of infants' and young children's nonverbal cues with the help of videos presenting typical children, including a case study of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Participants will learn about Dr. Tortora's "Ways of Seeing" program and experience movement activities that support early attachment as well as social, emotional, and cognitive development. Which can be used with families, in group, dyadic and individual therapy, in hospital, preventative, and child care settings.

Suzi Tortora, EdD, ADTR, CMA

Book Signing Party & Presentation from her newly published book: "THE DANCING DIALOGUE: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children. Infant-Parent Study Center - 120 West 57th Street on the 14th floor.

January 2006

Dr Tortora's new book, The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children, in now available on Amazon.com!
Click here to go to Amazon and order the book.

For more information about the book and other publications by Brookes Publishing "click here"