Dalcroze Essentials: Creating Sequences of Lessons with Joan Pope (Australia) [beginning Sept. 13, 2024]
"Dalcroze Essentials: Creating Sequences of Lessons"
A three-session short course with Joan Pope
[three 80-minute sessions]
Upcoming VDM Events
Fridays September 13, 20, 27 (Everyone)
- 5:00am PDT
- 6:00am MDT / CDMX
- 7:00am CDT
- 8:00am EDT
- 12:00pm(noon) GMT
- 1:00pm BST / London
- 8:00pm Western Australia / Singapore
- 9:00pm Tokyo
- 10:00pm Sydney
Joan looks back on some seventy years of inventing sessions for a wide range of people and situations. She extracts the essential ingredients that make them ‘Dalcroze Experiences’. She will focus one session on children, another on teens and student-teachers, and the third on adults in local choirs, drama groups, and seniors in retirement settings.
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West Australian Joan Pope attended the Dalcroze Centre in London in 1953, completed Dalcroze Licentiate, Sydney 1957, and finally (!) gained Diplôme Supérieure (Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva) 1999. She was Dalcroze Australia President for many years and conducted workshops, training sessions and DEIEB exams especially in South East Asia and Pacific regions.
Joan lectured in a number of Universities in her home State and volunteered her interests in Children; Youth Theatre and Dance, Festivals, Community Arts, Adventure Playgrounds and Seniors Recreation, serving on numerous Boards, nationally and internationally. She holds BA, Dip. Ed (UWA) B. Ed , M. Ed (ECU) majoring in Early Childhood and Arts Education. Her PhD Thesis (Monash) was an historical research of 1920-1930s Dalcroze teaching in Australia and New Zealand.
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