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A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

19981h 15m

Overview

This intimate, uncannily moving documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help people who had been discarded by society. The film traces the evolution of Norma's career from Broadway actress in the '40s, through her ground-breaking work in creative movement with disabled and mentally retarded children in the '60s, to her present work as a dance therapist with adults. Utilizing drawing, music, theater, and dance in the context of other modes of therapy, her work has proved extraordinarily beneficial for handicapped individuals, as well as providing cathartic healing experiences for those with deep emotional scars; And her work with children who were blind, deaf, or autistic has became a model.

Directed by Webb Wilcoxen
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Norma Canner

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Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

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dancegroup therapybroadway

About A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner is a documentary film released in 1998 exploring themes of dance, group therapy, broadway. Directed by Webb Wilcoxen, it stars Norma Canner, Ruby Dee. This intimate, uncannily moving documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help people who had been discarded by society. The film traces the evolution of Norma's career from Broadway actress in the '40s, through her ground-breaking work in creative movement with disabled and mentally retarded children in the '60s, to her present work as a dance therapist with adults. Utilizing drawing, music, theater, and dance in the context of other modes of therapy, her work has proved extraordinarily beneficial for handicapped individuals, as well as providing cathartic healing experiences for those with deep emotional scars; And her work with children who were blind, deaf, or autistic has became a model.

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