Zvika Frank
Dutch-Israeli dancer
Zvika Frank (Hebrew: צביקה פרנק; born 1948) is a Dutch-Israeli dancer, movement educator, university lecturer, and dance movement therapist. In the American Dance Therapy Association, he is registered as a dance therapist (BC-DMT). He is specialized in trauma treatments, depression, obsessive–compulsive disorder, phobias, child sexual abuse, addiction, psychosomatic problems, interpersonal problems, and many more. As a dance therapist, Frank has been living in China since 2012. In Chinese media, his name is popularly known and transcribed as Zīwéikǎ·fúlánkè (茲維卡•弗蘭克).
Biography
Frank was born in the Netherlands in 1948. In 1951, he came to Israel. He started studying Israeli folk dance at the age of 7. In 1978, Frank went to the United States to study dance therapy as a registered dance therapist.
Career
Frank started his career at Delta Psychiatric Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands, one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the Netherlands, where he was a teacher for 27 years.
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