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Linni Deihl,M.Ed., ADTR
Director of Dance Arts


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Westhampton Presbyterian Church Youth “Liturgical Dance Troupe”


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Heeh Choy, Student & Linni Deihl, Instructor,1997 Dance Therapist Course

Click here to view June 2000 Dance Therapy Outreach Project with Linni Deihl

Ms. Deihl has extensive professional ballet and modern dance teaching and performing experience. She studied dance therapy with Marion Chace, Mary Whitehouse, and other pioneer dance therapists, and Effort/Shape Movement Analysis with Martha Davis, Irmgard Bartenieff, Marion North and others. Her psychiatric background includes training in psychoanalytic psychology, gestalt therapy, family therapy and sexual therapy. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Dance Therapy Association for eight years.

Ms. Deihl resides on Long Island with her daughter Jessica and has private psychotherapy practice in Quogue, NY. She provides supervision for alternate route students working toward DTR and Dance Therapists working toward ADTR; conducts dance therapy workshops, courses and training groups; has served as a faculty member and guest lecturer at many colleges and universities including Columbia University, Brown University Medical School, Pratt Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, Barnard College, Smith College, Connecticut College, Rhode Island School of Design, York University, Drake University, Naropa Institute, Rutgers University, George Washington University, Queens College, Southampton College, Hahnemann Medical College, and SUNY at Buffalo and conducted a two month dance therapy workshop tour of Western Europe in 1985.

In addition she conducted the Dance Therapy Courses at the American Dance Festival from 1973-1979. She has worked as a clinical dance therapist in hospitals such as the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Harlem Hospital, Dingleton Hospital in Scotland, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the New York City Prison Mental Health Unit and Downstate Medical Center Department of Child Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition, she has presented dance therapy concepts to psychiatric conferences and has published various articles on her work. She is the editor of the Dance Therapy Bibliography 1981 published by the ADTA. She currently specializes in treating eating disorders, from anorexia to obesity, other P.T.S.D./stress related problems and the terminally ill (AIDS and Cancer).

Ms. Deihl brings to our Foundation an immense volume of knowledge and experience in the fields of both dance and dance therapy, to help survivors heal and go forth.


Heah Choi Korean Dance Troupe
Choreographer: Heah Choi

Heah Choi Korean Dance Troupe

“Birth” — Choreographer: Heah Choi

Dancers: Evn Aung Choi, Sun Bum Kang and Sook Hyun Hwang

As seen at: Hofstra Museum at Hofstra University
Hempstead, Long Island, New York, August 14, 1999



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