Dalcroze with Seniors

Experience a Dalcroze education class from the 2010 National Conference.

Polyrhythm has long been a core concept in eurhythmics. In this presentation, Brian Sweigart explores why it is beneficial for students to study polyrhythm through movement, from simply learning the rhythm to utilizing polyrhythmic skills in the frontier of contemporary music.

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!

Experience a Dalcroze education class from the 2010 National Conference.

Experience a Dalcroze education class from the 2012 National Conference.

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.