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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 ...

My introduction to Dalcroze eurhythmics came when, in 1997, Lisa Parker hired me to teach movement in the Dalcroze program at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. In an effort to design a movement course that served Dalcroze students, I started taking, and immeasurably enjoying, all the eurhythmics, ...

Rebecca Penneys is a recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral soloist, educator, and adjudicator.For over six decades she has been hailed as a pianist of prodigious talent, has concertizedthroughout all the continents north of Antarctica, and represented the USA in Information ServiceState Department Cultural Tours over a ten-year period. She made her ...

In every issue of Dalcroze Connections, we provide ideas for a brief composition that might be used in the classroom. Use this as inspiration for your own improvisations and share the results! As improvisers, it’s important to take inspiration from any and everything: life experiences, art of all kinds, poetry.  ...

The DSA began our monthly “Conversations on Undoing Racism” in August of 2020, in response to the events surrounding the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. We have met every month, except one, since then. Here is an excerpt from a participant’s email response to a ...