{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">Expressions and Characteristics of Black Urban Males in Dance Therapy.</span></p> <p>It is my intention to discover new avenues toward understanding the significance of what is being communicated by the expressions and characteristics of the Black Urban Male. This paper elaborates on the ways particular behaviors serve as a precursor for the expression of emblematic and adaptive integrations -- persisting for many throughout their life-time.</p> <p>By extracting and identifying these behaviors, I hope to make the Dance Therapy session a safer place for both the therapist and the client to interact and communicate.</p> <p>It is my conjecture that the average Black male is still in search of his masculinity, his sexuality, or if you will, his <span class=\"title\">manhood.</span>Many of us are, and for a long time will remain, preoccupied with our social and racial identities. For this reason, I feel that the dance therapy session can be a further enactment of inherited and learned behavioral patterns and beliefs.</p> <p>I firmly believe that within this verbal and non-verbal medium, namely the dance therapy modality, we will find a constancy in how the Black male perceives, internalizes, synchronizes and interprets his information -- indeed, how he communicates with himself and the outside world.</p>"}