Alberto Barsellini is an accomplished Argentine tango dancer, teacher and performer with more than a decade of international touring experience. Since 2014 he has presented workshops, performances and exhibitions across Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America, including multi-month tours in Australia and Europe and recent world tours spanning Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Poland and Norway.
His career includes extensive participation in major tango championships, with finalist and prize-winning results in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Championship, the Buenos Aires City Championship, the Intermilongas Championship and the World Salon Tango Championship. He has also performed with distinguished ensembles including Corporación Tangos Alumnos Ballet and the Ligas Mayores Ballet at the Kirchner Cultural Center.
Alongside his artistic work, Alberto has contributed to therapeutic and community-based initiatives, delivering seminars at STARTTS in Sydney that apply tango as a tool to support trauma recovery among refugees and survivors of torture. He has taught in Buenos Aires and abroad, and regularly performs in some of the city’s most renowned milongas.
Cornelia Elbrecht, AThR, SATh, SEP is a leader in ground breaking art therapy techniques with a particular focus on healing trauma. An art therapist with over 40 years experience she is a renowned author, educator and the Founder and Director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy.
Cornelia studied Expressive Arts Therapies at the School for Initiatic Therapy in the Black Forest, Germany and holds degrees in fine arts and arts education along with extensive postgraduate training in Jungian and Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics and at the Somatic Experiencing Training Institute (SETI).
Best known for her cutting edge work with Guided Drawing® and Clay Field Therapy®, she holds regular workshops around the world and at Claerwen Retreat in Apollo Bay, Australia - an internationally respected arts therapy education facility. Author of numerous books, she runs accredited online courses for art therapists, educators and mental health professionals looking to understand a body focused art therapy approach to trauma therapy. Find out more.
4th Australia and New Zealand Refugee Trauma Recovery in Resettlement Conference
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