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Pepperoni Pizza

Lori Forden
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Created January 16, 2026 | Added March 15, 2026

Turn the classroom into a giant pizza where students express the beat, multiple, and division through movement.

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Adaptations / Extensions

For early learners, you could use this only as an association.

For more advanced learners, you could turn this into a dissociation and/or a quick reaction:

Dissociation

  • When you play “pepperoni,” students move “cheese.”
  • When you play “cheese,” students move “crust.”
  • When you play “crust,” students move “pepperoni.”

Quick Reaction

Each part of the pizza has movers with groups assigned to each part of the pizza all parts of the pizza move.

  • When you say ‘change,’ they move to the next part of the pizza (crust to pepperoni, pepperoni to cheese, cheese to crust)
  • When you say a particular part of the pizza, that element turns on or off. For example, when you say ‘cheese,’ then cheese movers must freeze; when you say ‘cheese’ again, then cheese gets to move.

Assessment / Reflection Suggestions

You can easily see if students are moving in the correct area of the “pizza” and if they are moving with the music.

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Author

Lori Forden

Lori holds a Dalcroze Professional Certificate from the Dalcroze School of the Rockies.  She currently teaches after-school Dalcroze classes at Dalcroze Musical Arts. Lori has been a music teacher in both public and private schools and has also taught Dalcroze Eurhythmics at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, Suzuki workshops, Suzuki summer institutes, public school workshops, local MTA workshops, and musicianship skills to dancers. 

In addition to teaching, Lori is also involved with the non-profit organization Dalcroze Society of America as a former Trustee and Board Chair and is currently an officer of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the DSA.  In her spare time Lori enjoys many activities like skiing, camping, and photography.

Pepperoni Pizza
Lori Forden, Author

Catalog

  • Resource ID
    7442
  • Original Date
    January 16, 2026
  • Date Added
    March 15, 2026

About

  • Category
  • Age
    Ages 4–9
  • Dalcroze Branch
    Eurhythmics
  • Dalcroze Teaching Techniques
    Association, Dissociation, Inhibition & Incitation / Excitation, Quick Reaction, Relationships of Time, Space, and Energy, Social Interaction / Group Exercises
  • Music Topics
    Beat–Division–Multiple, Expression & Articulation, Rhythm & Meter
  • Movement Topics
    Glide, Jump, March, Run, Skip, Stillness / Freeze, Tip-toe Run

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Author

Lori Forden

Lori holds a Dalcroze Professional Certificate from the Dalcroze School of the Rockies.  She currently teaches after-school Dalcroze classes at Dalcroze Musical Arts. Lori has been a music teacher in both public and private schools and has also taught Dalcroze Eurhythmics at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, Suzuki worksho…
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