Sentences with phrase «through symbolic play»

Once he gains awareness of let's say, his anger, in the playroom, and expresses it through symbolic play, it gets processed and its intensity fades, and over a few sessions that anger becomes only a memory and slips into the past, where it no longer causes outbursts or aggression.

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Using the healing power of imagery through the medium of Sand Play Therapy to safely facilitate symbolic expression and transformation of painful experiences, and also provide ways of creating healing images in order to help children, youth, and adults face the challenges of their daily lives.

The most hackneyed standbys of coming - to - America humor — the discovery of pizza, confusion about relationships and religions — get trotted out, and the selfish J.B. has to repeatedly redeem himself (to Ash, Rinku, Dinesh, and Brenda, the generic love interest played by Bell) through symbolic gestures.

Often employing the symbolic element of the mashrabiya — a traditional window screen with carved wood latticework found in Islamic architecture — Hefuna plays with notions of viewing and being observed while at the same time channeling her cultures through her own voice.

She is interested in the logic of place and her paintings, installations, performances and videos consider the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade.

Transposed into a gallery setting, the awnings become symbolic markers of transition and literally set the stage for a play that brings the real (the physical installation in the gallery) and the imaginary (the realm evoked through drawings, text, and audio) into conversation.

her symbolic sculpture plays on the tension between the familiar, surreal or uncanny, transformed through the color and the materials which she employs in her work.

It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.

If imaginaries are «symbolic elaborations of what we observe,» then contemporary art plays an important role in recognizing how we see ourselves and allows the viewer to experience the imaginary through artistic practice.

Symbolic play uses skills that provide the basis for the ability to organise play, think things through, and cope with feelings.