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Observing the World as Dancers Do: Teaching Dance to Medical Students
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 64, Number 3, Fall 2020 (T247)
- pp. 67-78
- Article
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Abstract:
On a sunny day in a studio overlooking the Hudson River, a Mark Morris dancer guides a group of medical students in choreographing their patients' stories. This class in narrative medicine provides a safe laboratory where doctors-to-be learn to view their relationships with future patients as an improvisatory partnered dance in which the choreography adjusts moment to moment as new challenges, details, and possibilities for healing emerge.