Movement with Touch and Sound in the Sesame Approach: Bringing the Bones to the Flesh

Abstract

Movement with Touch and Sound (MTS), a specific element of the Sesame approach to dramatherapy, is often said to be indescribable. This paper investigates the experience of a small but varied group of Sesame-trained dramatherapists. Similarities between interviewees’ descriptions tie together the data through corresponding themes. A thread throughout is the idea of paradox and how it makes it hard to pin the subject down. Despite its mercurial quality, key elements of MTS are found and techniques identified. This work attempts to bring together the flesh of change in contemporary practice with what remains unchanged in the essence of the subject – the so-called bones.