Zvika Frank

Zvika Frank (; born 1948) is a Dutch-Israeli dancer, movement educator, university lecturer, and dance movement therapist. 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.

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. He is a steering committee member of the International Dance Therapy Master Program at the Rotterdam Dance Academy. He is also a member of the Dutch Action Psychotherapist. Since then, he has been promoting dance therapy in China, and giving workshops on a combination of DMT and therapy. He not only introduced dance therapy from the United States to the Netherlands, but also trained many young dance therapists. He also introduced dance therapy to China. He adopted an interdisciplinary approach that combines interactive communication analysis with dance movement therapy. The program has been introduced as a unique treatment model worldwide.