Dalcroze Eurythmics Afternoon Workshop – Sunday March 8, 2020

Dalcroze Eurythmics Afternoon Workshop

Date: Sunday, March 8th 2020

Time: 1:00-5:00pm

Location: 6520 Oak Street, Vancouver B.C.Canada (St.Peter's Estonian Church)

Dalcroze education is a playful, invigorating experience that awakens musicality and develops musicianship through rhythmic movement, ear-training, and improvisation. This three-pronged approach is equally engaging and useful for very young children, conservatory music students, adult musicians and senior citizens. Requiring complete involvement from each participant, it transcends purely musical pursuits, developing general cognitive areas such as attention, concentration, memory, coordination, self-control, sensitivity, and social integration. In a Dalcroze class you begin to feel and express the meaning of music through your physical movement, experiencing the flow of motion and emotion communicated through music kinesthetically in your body. Developed more than a century ago by Swiss musician and educator Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, the benefits of this approach have subsequently been scientifically confirmed.

This four-hour workshop will give you a personal experience of Dalcroze education through Eurhythmics classes, learning some of the fundamental principles on which Dalcroze education is based through personal experience. We will then explore concrete ways you can apply these principles and activities in your teaching. You will have the opportunity to practice leading a Dalcroze activity, preparing you to use that activity with your students.

Presenter: Jared Ballance, President of the Northwest Chapter of Dalcroze USA

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After February 10th, the registration will be opened to non-members, registration closes on March 1st.

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