Dalcroze Eurhythmics: The Body Indispensable

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Course System Home Terms Spring 2021 Dalcroze Eurhythmics: The Body Indispensable

Course Description

Summary

What if everything you want to understand about music is already within you, innate, instinctive, indelible? When Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) first taught harmony to students at the Geneva Conservatory in the 1890s, he found a disconnect between their aural perception and physical coordination, and devised a coursework to re-unite the two. He called it Eurhythmics, inviting students to move according to the nuances of music to uncover this embodied truth: all rhythm is the body moving through space. Part expression, part exploration, and part meditation, “Eurhythmics," he wrote, "is not an art form--I want to shout that from the rooftops--but a path towards art.”

Prerequisites

None.

Please contact the faculty member :

Instructor

  • Chris Rose

Day and Time

Academic Term

Spring 2021

Area of Study

Credits

2

Course Level

2000

Maximum Enrollment

12