Dance/Movement Therapy with Children: Pediatric Medicine

Enter the world of "Natalie," a child battling lymphoblastic leukemia. Bed-ridden, arms held in place with tapes and tubes, she sits motionless in her darkened hospital room. Dr. Baudino, a board certified dance/movement therapist, joins her bedside and provides Natalie an opportunity to "escape" from her room. During the dance/movement therapy experience, Natalie gets a chance to have control over an uncontrollable sentence and to be a child, not a "patient." These interactions may be one of the only times she gets to express how she feels about her illness- to communicate her awareness of what's to come.