Recent Blog Posts

Welcome to an exciting new year with Dalcroze USA! Earlier this year, we joined together at our 2024 National Conference in Oberlin, OH, and are embracing the momentum it generated. This fall, as we welcome new members and newly inspired volunteers, I look forward to fresh ideas that will expand ...

One summer afternoon, I sat on my porch watching some neighborhood children playing. Their mission was to find roly-polies under a rock, and they had to find a way to move the rock to do so. One pretended he was Superman and tried to lift it. Another tried to push ...

The International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS), in its 11 years of existence, has blossomed into an exciting new major event in the Dalcroze world. It attracts Dalcroze, Dalcroze-adjacent and Dalcroze-curious participants from around the globe, enabling practitioners to mix fruitfully with world-renowned performers, clinicians, and scholars in fields from ...

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Anne Farber from a heart attack on August 17, 2024. Many of us knew Anne through her brilliant teaching at the Longy School in Cambridge, along with Lisa Parker, and the Lucy Moses School in New York, where she founded ...

I recently sat down at the piano to noodle. I was having trouble coming up with a topic for an article I was writing, and I hoped that improvising would help the brainstorming process.  As the music set in, I found myself revisiting summer Dalcroze memories. The national conference at ...

Are you a DSA member who first learned about Dalcroze Education while attending a professional conference, or a professional teacher who has had the opportunity to teach at a conference? National and state events are one of the best ways we can share our unique work with others. In an ...