Hilda Wengrower, PhD, DMT, is co-editor with Sharon Chaiklin of The Art and Science of Dance Movement Therapy: Life is Dance and has published papers and chapters in multiple languages on subjects related to dance movement therapy. She teaches internationally.

Sharon Chaiklin, BC, DMT, is a founding member and past president of the American Dance Therapy Association and past president of the Marian Chace Foundation. She has worked clinically for many years and taught internationally.

Part I: About Dance; 1. Dance Comes to the Frontstage in Dance Movement Therapy; 2. Back to Basics: The Aesthetic, Poetic, and Contemplative Movements' Attributes That Heal in Dance Movement Therapy; 3. On the possibility of Authentic Movement: A Philosophical Investigation; 4. The Invisible of the Dancing Body; Part II. Research; 5. The Significance of Dance in Dance Movement Therapy: An International Online Survey with DMT Novices; 6. A Way to Embodiment through Aesthetic Relationship: Transformational Body Tracings; 7. "Being Moved" as a Therapeutic Factor of Dance Movement Therapy; 8. Wording the Complexity of Dance Movement Therapy: A Scoping Review on How Dance Movement Therapists Describe Their Clinical Practice; 9. Creating Breeds Creating; 10. Creating the Dance of Self: A Stage Theory of the Creative Process in Dance/Movement Therapy; Part III: Practice; 11. Dancing Activism: Choreographing the Material with/in Dementia; 12. Seeing with the Heart: The Aesthetics of Dance/Movement Therapy with Older Adults and People with Dementia; 13. Dance-Rhythm-Therapy for Patients with Parkinson's disease; 14. Dance Movement Therapy and Psycho-Social Rehabilitation: Model Sampoornata; 15. Asian Cultural Body, Dance, and Therapy: A Korean Perspective; 16. Dance/Movement Therapy in Japan and Its Cultural Roots; 17. Dance Movement Therapy and Flamenco: Relationships through Traditional Rhythms; 18. Time, Space, and an Aesthetics of Survival: Dance/Movement Therapy and Embodied Imagination after Unimaginable Loss; 19. As the Dance Winds Down: Coping with Aging as a Dance Therapist.