“Teenage Eurhythmics Demo” — Jeremy Dittus (2012)

Oh, the places you will go! What can 7+ years of Dalcroze training can accomplish in young people? Advanced students from the Dalcroze School of the Rockies demonstrate a variety of eurhythmics and solfège activities.

In this 75-minute collaboration, we will explore the idea of a personal inner tempo and then consider the challenge of “being music” that is at tempos more-than and less-than our authentic selves. How am I to feel the reality of another? With examples from Bach, La Bottine Souriante, and Satie, we will consider the difference between playing the notes of and being the music of another.

Experience a Dalcroze education class from the 2012 National Conference.

Experience a Dalcroze education class from the 2010 National Conference.

Conventional wisdom holds that meters of five are somehow inherently more difficult than meters of two, three, four, or six. In this session, participants will experience a series of games and songs that connect young children to uneven meters and encourage them to groove naturally with these patterns!

In this "joyful beginning" to the 2020 National Conference, see participants become more comfortable with—and conscious of—the larger group, many of whom they are meeting for the first time.