Activity
Sailboats on the Water
Created August 30, 2023 | Added May 22, 2025
- Pretend to be a sailboat bobbing on the water.
- Listen to the music and sway back and forth to the beat that you hear.
- Use music in compound duple (Bateux a voile works well)
- Use a scarf to be the sail of your sailboat.
- When you hear the end of the phrase, glide with tippy-toe running steps like a boat sailing across the smooth sea.
- When that phrase ends, then go back to swaying in your boat for the next phrase.
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Jeremy Dittus
Dr. Jeremy Dittus, Diplôme Supérieur, enjoys a career as a pianist, theorist, and Dalcrozian. He has performed and/or presented Dalcroze master classes throughout the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. He directs the Dalcroze School of Music & Movement (Dallas, Texas), teaches on the faculty at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and serves on le Collège de l’Institut Jaques-Dalcroze. The Dalcroze School of Music & Movement (founded in 2010) offers courses for youth ages 4–18, adult enrichment, full-time study toward the Dalcroze Professional Certificate, Dalcroze License, and post-License study. Publications include several journal and book articles, seven volumes of teacher-training textbooks, Embodying Music Vol. I–IV and Moving Sound Vol. I–III, along with ten volumes of DSM youth curriculum: Eurhythmics I and II, Rhythmic-Solfège I–V, and Advanced Dalcroze I–III.
Sailboats on the Water
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Jeremy Dittus
Dr. Jeremy Dittus, Diplôme Supérieur, enjoys a career as a pianist, theorist, and Dalcrozian. He has performed and/or presented Dalcroze master classes throughout the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. He directs the Dalcroze School of Music & Movement (Dallas, Texas), teaches on the faculty at Hope College in H…
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