"Dalcroze Essentials: Improvisation" with Françoise Lombard (Canada)
Improvisation: single line improvisation, improvising in two voices, modal chord progressions, three voice improvisation; playing for gallop, skip, slow walk; walking bassline
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"Dalcroze Essentials: Improvisation"
A three-session short course with Françoise Lombard (Canada)
Wherever you are on your Dalcroze journey, this short course will help you work on improvisation for movement. It will be tailored to what the students need and want to work on. The short course will help enhance and open up your improvisation and deepen your practice. It will also be very pragmatic, sharing easy tools which are immediately applicable.
The first session will focus on single-line melodies on any instrument. The second session will be about improvising in 2 voices on the piano, with support from Francoise for those who don’t feel as comfortable on the piano. In the third session we might explore 3 voices or other approaches. Please bring your instruments, and if you are a non-pianist, try to be in a room with a piano.
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Françoise Lombard is a musician and a teacher of both Eurhythmics and the 'Art of Listening'. Having gained the Diplôme of the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze and graduated from the Geneva Conservatoire (piano, harmony), she began to train teachers of Eurhythmics in Bienne (Switzerland).
She then undertook training in the “Art of Listening” (the method of François Louche), which she teaches to artists, teachers and therapists in Europe and Quebec. She lives in Montreal and divides her professional life between Eurhythmics, 'Art of Listening' and composition.
Françoise Lombard has created the Audio Library "music and movement", teaching material for music teachers with the aim of promoting the learning of music and the overall development of children and adults by associating body movement with music. Read more and watch the videos: francoise-lombard.com
This short course was originally given April 29-May 14, 2025.
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