Executive Director’s Letter
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 the reach and impact of…
Read MoreThe Spirit of Play Brings Joy
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 it. The third kicked. Each…
Read MoreThe ICDS Heads to Luxembourg
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 music education to neuroscience. Last…
Read MoreCall for Submissions: Remembering Anne Farber
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 the ongoing Dalcroze School. Although…
Read MoreEditor’s Letter
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 the scenic and historic Oberlin…
Read MoreIntroducing: Professional Teacher Outreach Support
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 effort to help teachers who…
Read MoreMovement Training for Dalcroze Eurhythmics Specialists
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, solfège, improvisation, and pedagogy classes…
Read MoreInterview with Rebecca Penneys
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 recital debut at age 9…
Read MoreImprov Exchange: Dewdrops
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. In this issue, we present…
Read MoreConversations on Undoing Racism (May 2024)
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 recent session: THANK YOU for…
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