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Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb
Position: Adjunct Lecturer
Office Address
4632 York Avenue South
Richfield, MN 55423
Office Phone: 612-925-5277
Email Address: loebx001@umn.edu
Educational Background
MFA (Master of Fine Arts in Dance), CMA (Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst), ADTR Senior Level Dance/Movement Therapist, PWAssoc (Associate Certification in Mindell Process Work)
Brief Biography
Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb is a senior level Dance/Movement Therapist, Movement Analyst and Somatic/Body Therapist trained in a range of alternative healing modalities that specifically work with physical, psychological and spiritual healing and wellness. She currently teaches at the University of Minnesota and also has a private practice where she works with early childhood abuse issues, children and individuals in life transitions. She is also a member of the editorial board for the Laban Journal of Movement Studies.
She has worked as a Behavioral/Adjunctive Therapist in area hospitals and has also developed Dance/Movement Therapy programs at long-term care facilities in Minnesota. She was also an artist-in-residence/choreographer in Minnesota, Connecticut and Oregon.
As a college and university professor she has taught at the University of Minnesota, St. Olaf College, Lewis and Clark College, Reed College and Portland State (in Oregon), Temple University (in Philadelphia) and the Lithuanian Performing Arts University in Vilnius, Lithuania. She has also co-lead students on study abroad programs in the Middle East (2000) and Asia/South East Asia (2004-5).
Teaching Areas
Somatic Studies, Dance/Movement Therapy, Movement Analysis, Creative Arts Therapy, Creativity, Spirituality and Healing
Research Interests
Body, movement, creativity in relationship to healing and wellness
Dance/Movement Therapy
Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic Therapies (body-based Alternative Therapies)
Creativity, Body/Movement, Spirituality and Wellness
Selected Publications
Nordstrom-Loeb, Barbara, Larson, Kathryn, & Webb, William (1999)."I like this group... because it come from the heart...": Programming with dance/movement therapy and music therapy in long term care facilities. Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation
Nordstrom-Loeb, Barbara,(author, director) (2004). L'An: Six Characters in Search of Israel's Future. Minneapolis, Minnesota:
performed at Carleton College, Macalester College, Saint Paul Jewish Community Center and several Saint Paul and Minneapolis synagogues.
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