Dance/Movement Therapy is where psychology and creativity meet to help us help others. Through experiential, embodied learning and immersive clinical training, you’ll discover the curative nature of the creative process and the healing potential of dance.
Dance/Movement Therapy at Pratt
Creative, aesthetic, and psychotherapeutic theory come together in everything we do. Movement is done in every course and is used to learn a range of therapeutic skills. Experiential processes translate the theoretical framework into personal and practical application. You’ll focus on a variety of populations over the course of two years of clinical training.
The Experience
The MS in Dance/Movement Therapy is a 60-credit program for students who want a diverse skill set, balanced with a strong theoretical framework. Interdisciplinary, socially engaged, and justice-driven, our Creative Arts Therapy community is connected by a shared mission for transformative change. Pratt’s Dance/Movement Therapy program can be completed in 4 semesters of full-time study. All courses are offered on the Pratt Brooklyn campus.
Internships
We believe creative and clinical practices are best developed together, each informing and improving the other. Internships are a vital part of the hallmark experiential learning process. Much of the coursework draws directly from clinical experiences and processing of client material. Students complete internship experiences in an array of site placements, including inpatient hospitals, community mental health agencies, and school-based settings, among others.
Our Faculty
Alongside their teaching roles, our faculty are accomplished artists who integrate creative and clinical practices every day in their work. See all Creative Arts Therapy faculty and administrators.
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Spring is finally approaching, and we are excited to welcome our horse friends back to campus!🐴
Get ready for a day of creativity and connection as @soartpratt and @prattequestrian bring you Horses on Campus 2025! This event is open to the entire Pratt community. Join us to celebrate the season by sketching, painting, or simply enjoying!
📍 Rose Garden
📅 Monday, April 14
⏰ 10 AM – 3 PM
#prattinstitute #goprattgo @prattinstitute @jorgeaoliver
6 days ago
📣LAST CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE!
This is the final week to see Alex Strada’s Collective Mobilities at the Dekalb Gallery! Centered on mutual aid and redistribution, the project supports Pratt’s neighbors experiencing homelessness, including asylum seekers. Conceived by Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow @_alex_strada , who is also the Public Artist in Residence with NYC's Department of Homeless Services, this Project invites the Pratt community to take meaningful action.
Throughout the exhibition, Strada organized the collection of clean, lightly used clothing and new essentials for people of all ages. These donations have been loaded onto Mobile Mutual Aid sculptures and wheeled by students and volunteers to nearby shelters for immediate redistribution. Volunteers can join one last redistribution effort this Saturday, March 8, 2-4:30PM, meeting at the gallery to load and deliver donations.
While in the gallery, the sculptures have been adorned with plants grown by Project Renewal’s @projectrenewal horticultural therapy participants—still available for purchase to support their initiatives. Maps highlight housing inequities, and the show features a cyanotype fiber artwork created with shelter residents, soon to be permanently installed there.
We invite everyone to engage with Collective Mobilities for one last week, whether by visiting the exhibition, donating essentials, or volunteering for this vital redistribution effort.
📍DeKalb Gallery
🗓️February 3-March 9, 2025
🕓Wednesday, and Saturday 1-5pm or by appointment
🔗 Visit link in bio for more details
All items can be brought directly to the gallery during open hours.
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Classmates:
Ayla: @aylaellenbogen
Jackson: @jacksonebbin1
Kim: @login.kim
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Zander: @intheriver4fttall
4 weeks ago
APPLY TO THE 2025 SCHOOL OF ART STUDENT EXHIBITION!
🔗 Link in bio to apply!
Submissions accepted until midnight EST on Sunday, March 23, 2025
Pratt’s School of Art Dean Jorge Oliver is pleased to invite all School of Art students to submit their work for consideration to be included in a group exhibition curated by Pratt alums Olli Toppeta (History of Art and Design ‘22) and Dylan Kaleikaumaka Hill (History of Art and Design ‘23). The exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Department of Exhibitions, the Department of History of Art and Design, and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, will take place in August and September 2025 in the Schafler Gallery in the Chemistry Building.
This exhibition will spotlight LGBTQIA+ and queer themes. Submissions are open to all Pratt School of Art students—undergraduates (including Foundation and Associate Degree students), graduate students, and the graduating class of 2025. We welcome work that engages with and reflects the diverse experiences and perspectives within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, non-binary, pansexual, two-spirit, intersex (LGBTQIA+), or any other identity within the broad spectrum of the queer community.
The School of Art includes students in Art and Design Education, Creative Arts Therapy, Creative Enterprise Leadership, Digital Arts, Film/Video, Fine Arts, Photography, AOS Graphic Design, Illustration, Game Design and Interactive Media, and AAS Graphic Design/Illustration.
This is an excellent opportunity for students to showcase their work, build a relationship with professional curators in conceiving a group exhibition, and engage with the greater Pratt community.
We look forward to seeing your work! Thank you for applying!
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4 weeks ago
The Dean of the School of Art, Jorge Oliver, is pleased to invite you to RSVP for this semester’s Dean’s Workshops with Ghanaian photographer Eric Gyamfi. 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳: 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 is a four-day series taking place on Pratt’s Manhattan and Brooklyn campuses from Oct 16 - 21. Gyamfi will host a range of activities, from foraging for plants on campus, to engaging in group storytelling practices as a way of building new personalized botanical archives. Gyamfi’s experimental approach to lens-based work invites students to revisit the fundamentals of photochemistry and optics and to query perception through cameraless photography.
@soartpratt and @pratt_associate_degrees in collaboration with @prattphotography are thrilled to welcome #EricGyamfi to our community this month. We hope you will join these workshops and engage with Eric’s unique creative perspective while he visits Pratt!! RSVP in bio for the following activities and events:
Wednesday Oct 16, 1:30 - 2:30 pm, Pratt Manhattan Campus, Room 201
Perception, Photography, Perspective.
Thursday Oct 17, 10:30 am - noon, Brooklyn Campus, Film/Video Screening Room 102
Certain Winds from the South.
Thursday Oct 17, 1:00 - 3:30 pm, Brooklyn Campus, Interfaith Commons Chapel
Building Botanical Archives through Storytelling.
Monday Oct 21, 10:30 am - noon, Brooklyn Campus, ARC Building, F-03
Camera Obscura.
Monday Oct 21, 1:00 - 5:00 pm, Brooklyn campus, ARC Building, Non-Silver Lab
Foraging for Photograms.
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6 months ago
NOW OPEN! 𝗣𝗜𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨, 𝗣𝗜𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗠𝗘
Aug 5 - Sept 28, 2024
Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery
Curated by alums @nandewalters (‘23) and @scprosper__ (‘22).
Pratt’s School of Art Dean, @jorgeaoliver is pleased to invite you to 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂, 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲. This exhibition showcases the work of 15 students and alumni who identify with the Black, African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Hispanic, Afro-Latinx, Black Hispanic, or Black Latinx experience or are of African diasporic descent. In selecting work for this year’s exhibition, and with the guidance of faculty supervisor, Innocent Ekejiuba, the curators were inspired by the work of Jamaican-British cultural theorist Stuart Hall and American sociologist W.E.B. DuBois to frame their vision — “The exhibition seeks to embrace the complexity of perception and representation and make the often overlooked experiences of marginalized communities visible”.
✨CONGRATS TO ALL THE ARTISTS ✨
Zakariya Abdul-Qadir (MFA Fine Arts, Painting/Drawing ‘25)
Kemi Alade (BFA Film ‘26)
Shanoya Allwood (BFA, Film ‘25)
Jazmin Loranne Chapman (BFA Photography ‘25)
Catherine Chattergoon (BArch, Social Justice/Practice, Photography Minors ‘24)
Ezra Cumbo (AOS Illustration ‘24)
Monique Edwards (MFA Fine Arts, Painting/Drawing ‘25)
Rob Hill (MFA Fine Arts, Painting/Drawing ‘25)
Jalin Kolen (BFA Photography ‘25)
Deona Lizette (MFA Fine Arts, Printmaking ‘24)
Fae Lugo (BFA Art and Design Education ‘24)
Ananda Ray (BFA Digital Arts, Interactive Arts, Social Justice/Practice Minor ‘24)
Morvens Regis (BFA Fine Arts, Painting ‘26)
Haley Sessoms (BFA Photography ‘25)
Sahara Sheikh (BFA Digital Arts, 2D Animation, Black Studies Minor ‘24)
GALLERY HOURS
Summer hours: Monday–Friday, 10:30 a.m.–4 p.m. (Aug 5–Aug 25)
Regular hours: Monday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Thank you to our partners @PrattExhibits @PrattCEI @PrattAlumni @prattbap
Visit in person and enjoy the show! #prattschoolofart
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8 months ago
Heartfelt congratulations to all School of Art students who graduated today across our eight departments from Dean Jorge Oliver, Assistant Dean Marcus Civin and everyone in the @soartpratt! 🎉💛🖤🎉 We commend your exceptional work during your time at Pratt and wish you every success on your exciting journey ahead!
Special congratulations to @prattfilm_video Assistant Professor Justice A. Whitaker who was awarded the @prattinstitute 2024 Distinguished Teacher Award at today’s ceremony! Thank you for your inspiring work and your outstanding contribution to your students and to our community.
#prattgrad24
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11 months ago
Sincere thanks to @poncilicreacion, Pratt faculty Erin Holmes @bryceentertainmentllc and artist & educator @carrie_re7l for leading the School of Art Dean’s Workshops series this spring. Thanks also to @prattarted @prattfineart and the Creative Arts Therapy department for hosting this semester’s stellar line up in collaboration with @soartpratt Dean @jorgeoliver. To the many students who participated and engaged with these artists and the ideas they brought to @prattinstitute, we hope you are inspired to broaden your creative expression and further engage with our community of eight departments! Our posters and promotional material were created by graduating @pratt_associate_degrees students Finn Evans & Nick Malandrino, Graphic Design AOS ‘24.
Special thanks to School of Art Assistant Dean @marcuscivinwriting and to Pratt’s Creative Services team.
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11 months ago
📣 It’s that time of year when we welcome our equine friends to pose in the Rose Garden! The @soartpratt is excited to co-host Horses on Campus 2024 with @prattequestrian. Join in the fun and draw, paint, visit and enjoy! 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝟭𝟬𝗮𝗺 - 𝟯𝗽𝗺!
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12 months ago
The Dean of the School of Art is pleased to announce a series of in-person workshops in dance, sculpture/performance and AI! A stellar line-up of workshop leaders include Pratt faculty Erin Holmes @bryceentertainmentllc, Puerto Rican art collective @poncilicreacion & artist and educator Carrie Wang @carrie_re7l. Workshops are open to all students and there are still some spots available! Links in bio to sign up.
🟪 Umfundalai Essentials LIVE: Pan-African Dance for Mirroring and Strengthening Diverse Communities
Hosted by Creative Arts Therapy
Mon April 1, 5:30 - 8:30 pm
Student Union, 200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn.
All levels of experience and mobility welcomed. Refreshments will be served.
Participants will have the opportunity to participate in lappa* art-making, a dance/movement therapy session with live drumming, and discussion, investigating healing processes and the ways Umfundalai is a cultural resource. Participants should wear comfortable clothing and comfortable shoes.
🟪 Poncilí Creación: Performance
Hosted by Art and Design Education and Fine Arts
Sponsored by the Pratt Academic Senate
Wed April 3, 7:30 - 8:30pm
Student Union, 200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn
Refreshments will be served. No tickets necessary.
This performance, Cerebro de Abuela Piel de Pierre, is a wordless talk about the power of freedom and creativity in the 21st century disguised as a puppet show. Come join!
🟪 Whose AI?
Tue April 2, 10:30am -12:30pm: Myrtle Hall, 4E-03
Tue April 2, 2:00pm - 4:00pm: Myrtle Hall, 2E.3
Tue April 9, 10:30am - 12:30pm: Myrtle Hall, 4E-03
Tue April 9, 2:00pm - 4:00pm: Myrtle Hall 2E.3
Join Carrie Sijia Wang for a series of creative workshops exploring AI chatbots and their impact on society! Participants will engage in playful, explorative activities to build chatbots together, develop a clearer understanding of AI technologies and their social implications, and partake in critical conversations as these technologies continue to take shape. For these workshops, students will need to bring laptops with Chrome browser installed. No prior experience in coding is required.
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