Discover the joy of music through movement! Join us for a Discover Dalcroze Day and experience music in a whole new way. Whether you’re a musician, dancer, or just curious, everyone is welcome!
Dalcroze UK invites you to join in a fantastic, free day of discovery into Dalcroze Eurhythmics on Sunday 19th October 2025 at the prestigious music academy Haberdashers’ Hatcham College, 135 Pepys Road, New Cross, London, SE14 5SF.
The event is free to attend!
Whether you are a teacher with students, a musician, or a performer, Dalcroze Eurhythmics aims to provide you with an experience of how it can help you develop a deeper connection and understanding of music by engaging with it directly through the body.
Dalcroze is beneficial and transformative for all kinds of people, including children, students, adults, seniors, musicians, teachers, dancers, performers, and actors. It is an effective and joyful way to learn music. It is also freeing, boosts confidence, and helps develop a variety of skills needed to become confident, collaborative musicians, performers, or artists.
The principles of Dalcroze emphasise using movement as a tool to understand music elements, not through thought and patterns, but through sensory experience, feeling, and creativity. Musical rhythm is a direct expression of the human spirit. The Dalcroze method aims to create harmony between the body and mind by using sensory experience to support thought with feeling. The body then acts as the site of that experience and expresses it physically. There are three branches of this expression that Jaques-Dalcroze designed to apply and develop this approach: Rhythmics, Aural Training, and Improvisation. The Discover Dalcroze Day will provide an opportunity to learn about and engage with each branch.
“Wow! That was mind-blowing. What a way to get inside the music”.
Your Teacher
Diplôme Supérieur of the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze (IJD), Geneva, and is Director of Projects for Dalcroze UK.
Since graduating from the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in 1997, Jacqueline has taught regularly on the full range of UK training courses, from the Foundation Award to the Licence course. She also teaches regularly at the International Summer School and Spring Courses and is an examiner for the DEIEB exams (Dalcroze Eurhythmics International Examination Board)
The day will run from 09:15 to 16:30. The Itinerary is as follows:
| 09.15 – 09.30 | Arrival and Registration |
| 09.45 – 10.30 | What is Dalcroze? Principles & Applications |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 – 12.50 | Rhythmics |
| 13.00 – 13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45 – 15.00 | Improvisation |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Tea Break |
| 15.15 – 16.30 | Aural Training followed by Questions and End |
RSVP below to reserve your free spot.
Dalcroze UK is pleased to accept any voluntary donations to help cover the costs of this event. You can donate directly to Dalcroze UK through the link provided here. All donations are sincerely appreciated and will support our essential work of training and promoting the benefits and influence of Dalcroze Eurhythmics.