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 [...]
Since the last newsletter in February, travel, in person classes and live events have all opened up and the new Dalcroze UK Licence students have been able to meet monthly, in person, at the Royal Russell School in Croydon and also at my house, in South-East London where they have been able to benefit [...]
Dalcroze UK member and Dalcroze Eurhythmics Professional Certificate holder, Marlies Muijzers, has filmed a new dance project called “De klank van mijn vermogen” – ‘the sound of my ability’. This beautiful project can be seen on the Dalcroze UK Facebook page.
As many readers will know, I finally completed my PhD in 2019 (owing to events the actual certificate states 2020), thesis title: ”Dynamic Rehearsal and Dalcroze Eurhythmics: A phenomenological investigation into participants’ experiences and their implications for the practice, teaching and learning of music and musical performance” which does what it [...]
The conference takes place at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA. The call for submissions is open and at least one Dalcroze UK Licence students has submitted a paper. Dr Karin Greenhead is a founder member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies along with John Habron-James. Rosalind Ridout, currently completing [...]
Introduction I hope this newsletter finds you well. Please find a few updates on what we are currently working on in Dalcroze UK. Thank you all for your continued support. It has been a long road as we continue to recover from the Covid pandemic, which affected all music organisations and hit small [...]
Dalcroze UK welcomes Christine Wardle as its first Development Manager. Christine, tell us a little about yourself My name is Christine Wardle and I live in North Yorkshire with my husband Ian and springer spaniel Rocky. I manage a chamber music series called Concert&Cakes showcasing emerging artists studying at the Royal Northern College [...]
