Suzi Torora Expressive Dance Workshop
Current News & Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events and Lectures
Selected Media Coverage
Selected Past Events

February 21st 2006,
6 - 8 PM, NY Zero-to-Three Network: clinical roundtable presentation at the Ackerman Institute, 149 E. 78th St, New York, NY.

November 16, 2005
The Dance Therapy program at MSKCC brings smiles to the faces of young children. For a look at the program in action and hear Susan Rizzo and Suzi Tortora talk about Andrea's "Dream" - a dance therapy program at MSKCC, click on this link to ABC TV, then scroll and click on Eyewitness News Video.

October 23, 2005 - Autismone.org - autism one radio with Patricia Lemer - Dr Tortora discusses how she works with children along the Autistic Spectrum

8:00 pm - 8:30 ET
Patricia Lemer
Her guest: Suzi Tortora, Ed.D.
Topic: The Dancing Dialogue: Using movement to enhance social-emotional development.
(Click here to listen to the this interview)

Jan. 30, 2005 - Suzi Tortora dance therapy work was featured on A&E national TV, Sunday January 30 on their Show Breakfast with the Arts.

January 20th - 22nd 2006,
Carolina Chapter of the ADTA: weekend workshop at Elon University near Greensboro, North Carolina, Click here to download the flyer and registration form.

Tortora,S. (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"

January 6th 2006,
Utah Association for Infant Mental Health (UAIMH): full day workshop in Provo Utah. Click here to download the flyer

SELECTED PAST EVENTS 2005

SELECTED PAST EVENTS 2004

December 3, 2004 - "Move Baby Move: The Essential Role of Movement in
All Levels of Development"
at the Zero to Three 19th National Training
Institute, A Changing World for Babies, in Sacramento , California.

October 7 - 10, 2004 - National American Dance Therapy Association Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana - 2 presentions: "Forum On Early Childhood Settings: Fifth Gathering -From Nonverbal To Verbal In Dance Movement Therapy" ; &"Getting Verbal About Dance Movement Therapy - How To Speak So Other Professions Listen"

August 1-4, 2004 - Taipei University of the Arts in Taiwan CORD international conference, Dance, Identity and Integration - presenting workshop titled "Riverdance Boy" - dance movement psychotherapy work with a child with PDD.

June 28 - July2, 2004 - Korean Dance Therapy Academy President: Boon Soon Ryu, PhD, ADTR
5 day course: Dance Movement Psychotherapy With Young Children And Families: Observation, Assessment, Intervention And Educational Programming.

June 22, 2004 "Exploring Children's Love of Movement" - 17th Annual June Infancy Institute, Toddlers, Families: Supporting their Growth . At Bank Street College, NYC.

June 18-20, 2004 "The Use of LMA, Bartenieff Fundamentals and Dance Therapy to Support Infancy Research & Intervention with a Young Child with Autism" - Defining, Developing and Marketing LMA - Building Bridges, Crossing Boundaries, Strengthening Bonds - Long Beach California California State University Long Beach

May 22, 2004 - New York Chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association: NYU Dance Education Dept 1:30 - 3:30PM - Keep on Moving: The Use of Movement and Nonverbal Observation in Development, Assessment, Intervention and Creative Dance Expression to Support Early Childhood Relationships.

May 13, 2004 "Keep on Moving: The Use of Movement and Nonverbal Observation in Development, Assessment, Intervention and Creative Dance Expression to Support Early Childhood Relationships" - New York State Head Start Conference Retreat, Renaissance Westchester Hotel, White Plains, NY.

May 8, 2004 - Postgraduate Training Program of Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services - Institute for Infants, Children & Families - guest lecturer.

May 2004 - Journal of Zero to Three National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families - guest editor of issue titled "Exploring a Multisensory World: How Infants and Toddlers Use Their Bodies To Learn and Communicate."

April 14, 21, 28, May 5, 2004 "Dance Therapy in Early Childhood", Pratt University Graduate Dance Therapy Program, Joan Wittig, director.

March 7 - March 13, 2004 - The NCCATA is celebrating its 25th Anniversary by promoting Creative Arts Therapy week.

New York City

"I want to recognize and thank Creative Arts Therapists in America who are assisting the most vulnerable in our society with valuable therapeutic intervention. There are over 15,000 licensed clinicians who meet high quality standards of graduate education and practice… These credentialed clinicians constitute a vital force of mental health professionals in our country. However, many Americans are unable to access such services because awareness about their effectiveness and employment of such therapists is not sufficiently widespread… Particularly at this time of heightened sensitivity to maintaining mental health, we should recognize the Creative Arts Therapies as a way to help those in distress through the power of the arts to heal."

(Statement for the Congressional Record in Recognition of National Creative Arts Therapies Week, June 1-7th, 2003, by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton)

SELECTED PAST EVENTS 2003