Dalcroze education is a playful, experiential approach to teaching and learning music. Through movement, ear-training, and improvisation, students of any age can unlock the music within their body.
Recent Blog Posts
The ICDS Heads to Luxembourg
By Eric Barnhill | October 23, 2024
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 ...
Read More → Call for Submissions: Remembering Anne Farber
By Katie Couch | October 23, 2024
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 ...
Read More → Editor’s Letter
By Katie Couch | October 9, 2024
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 ...
Read More → Introducing: Professional Teacher Outreach Support
By Mary Dobrea-Grindahl | September 11, 2024
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 ...
Read More → Movement Training for Dalcroze Eurhythmics Specialists
By Dawn Pratson | August 27, 2024
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, ...
Read More → Interview with Rebecca Penneys
By Terry Boyarsky | August 13, 2024
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 ...
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