Marian Chace, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMarian Chace
American dancer
Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1896
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Date of Death: 19-Jul-1970
Profession: dancer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Marian Chace
- Marian Chace (31 October 1896 – 19 July 1970) is one of the founders of modern dance therapy. Marion Chace was born 31 October 1896 in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of Daniel Champlin Chace, a journalist and editor, and Harriet Edgaretta (Northrop) Chace.
- Her younger siblings were Marjorie (1899–1991), Olive (1905–1977), and Edgar Northrop Chace (1908–1983). She studied modern dance and choreography with Ted Shawn and Ruth St.
- Denis at the Denishawn School of Dance and started work as a dance performer.
- However she believed that the body and mind are interrelated, and influenced by the work of Carl Jung. She began to teach in Washington D.C.
- and noticed some of her students were more interested in the expression of emotions than in dance technique and began to emphasize this in her classes.
- Her students reported feelings of well being which intrigued local doctors, some of the National Institutes of Health, who began to send some of their patients to her classes.
- Her approach included body active, symbolism, therapeutic movement relationship, and rhythmic group activity.
- Eventually she joined the staff at St.
- Elizabeth’s hospital in southeast Washington D.C.
- and studied at the Washington School of Psychiatry.
- Chace started to teach in schools and hospitals advocating and lecturing on the therapeutic benefits of dance/body movement. She worked for a number of years with patients at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, MD. In the 1960s she founded a training program for dance therapists New York.
- In 1966 she founded the American Dance Therapy Association and became its first president.
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