General News Life and work have been very busy since my last report (November 2022). The 10 students in our Dalcroze UK Licence programme have completed the year with some mock exams and mini mocks. The Italian members of this group and Dario (Spain) had their December course with Ava Loiacono in Italy [...]
How did you first come across Dalcroze Eurhythmics? In 1991, I was a first-year Bachelor of Music student at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. Dr Sandra Nash taught weekly musicianship lessons. In true Dalcroze fashion, she asked the class to stack the furniture and take off our shoes [...]
As Development Manager, it is my role to talk to Members, seek out new partnerships and training opportunities and raise awareness of the value of a Dalcroze Eurhythmics training wherever I can. So I was really pleased to be able to spend two days in London with Sandi, Jacqueline and Kaye where we [...]
Introduction I hope this newsletter finds you well. We’ve had a really busy few months and so I am very pleased to report a few updates on what we are currently working on in Dalcroze UK. We are committed to expanding and developing our training programmes and courses as we grow and develop [...]
Congratulations to Raquel Costabile who passed her Professional Certificate in November! Raquel studied most of her course under Covid restrictions, so we are particularly delighted for her and impressed by her level of commitment and creativity which enabled her to achieve a fantastic result despite the pressures of the past three years. Well done [...]
At the Summer Course in Cardiff this year, we said thank you to Ghislaine Fletcher for managing our book store for over ten years. Many of you will have met her at our Spring and Summer Courses over the years and will agree that she has been an absolute joy to work with! Sadly, [...]
Since joining Dalcroze UK last October, I’ve been working with Sandi and the Trustees across four main areas, legacies, partnerships, membership and funding applications all of which are aimed at growing the organisation and the opportunities to study Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Sometimes these involve income generation and fundraising, but sometimes it is about working [...]
How did you originally hear about Dalcroze Eurhythmics? Ah well, that goes back rather a long way. When I was in NYOGB I was aware of an inner circle of string players who attended chamber music courses at Pro Corda where they did something called Dalcroze. Fast forward 30 years when my daughters [...]
Photo: Sian Trenberth Photography Bin, where do you live? I live in south London in a little town called Wallington, east of Croydon and west of Sutton - I’m in the middle. Last year you started leading some workshops for the Asian Community in Croydon. How did this come about? Actually it [...]
Institut Jaques-Dalcroze – navigating the old and new websites The IJD website was created for Switzerland and the very large music school for children and also many projects run by the IJD. However it was not very useful for overseas Dalcrozians and those seeking information. On the home page of the website [...]
