Previous awards: Hanny Exiner Memorial Foundation Research Grants

 

2009
Natalie Poole was the recipient of the 2009 award for her study entitled Twirling: Exploring the Transformative Potential of the Female Menstrual Cycle with Dance Movement Therapy. Natalie's work, based on that of counsellor, psychotherapist and author, Alexander Pope, promises to be highly innovative in the field of dance-movement therapy in Australia (and possibly the world) as she investigates this new area of study and practice. It is anticipated that the report of her project will be available to members of the dance-movement therapy profession through Moving On, the DTAA's journal, early in 2011 and to the wider community via this website.

2007
The first grants were awarded in 2007.

Kim Dunphy and collaborators Tessa Hearnes and Professor John Toumbourou were awarded a grant to undertake a survey of dance-movement therapy to document and map current practice in Australia. This project's results were presented at the DTAA Conference in November 2007, and the American Dance Therapy Conference in October 2008. The final report was published as a chapter in Dance Therapy Collections 3, Dance-movement therapy in Australia: a survey of practitioners and practice. More info.

Jessica Lesosky was awarded a grant for her study Intergenerational Dance/Movement Therapy: Connections Between Two Generations. This project was completed in 2009 and will be reported in Moving On in 2010.