Dalcroze Essentials: For the Private Lesson. A three-session short course with Emma Shubin (Luxembourg/USA)
Private Lesson, Pedagogy, Movement while playing an instrument, New approaches to private lesson structure, Creative Games to learn repertoire, Feedback strategies, muti-modal learning, Creative warm-ups, Dalcroze strategies and techniques, association/dissociation, mutitasking, sound production, improvisation
Dalcroze Essentials: For the Private Lesson
A three-session short course with Emma Shubin (Luxembourg/USA)
Gain new tools for incorporating movement, discovery, and improvisation into your private lesson studio. Some topics we’ll explore include:
- Fostering creative practice: How many ways can we practice that? a hundred ways towards mastery: Does listening to it, moving it, singing count? What other ways can we empower our students to become co-creators in their learning journey outside of the lesson.
- Rhythm is Character! Besides clapping, what other techniques can help students internalize rhythm? We’ll discuss activities requiring no extra materials or simple tools like a small ball, beanbag, or chopsticks.
- Developing Internal Phrase and Pulse: How do we learn to communicate what we cannot see or touch like “phrasing” or “musicality”? How do we nurture an internal pulse in students while making the process creative, fun, and expressive? We’ll explore ways to enhance meter and phrasing awareness, as well as to boost musical literacy.
- Multiple pathways to music literacy: A triangle between Ears, Eyes, & Fingers! How do these parts interact while we are learning? How can we support new pathways to learning through auditory, verbal, tactile, and visual cues?
You'll leave the course with ready-to-use activities tailored to your current students, and we’ll try them out together so you’ll be ready to implement them in your next lesson!
No previous experience with Dalcroze is required!
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Passionate about music, holistic & integrative education, Emma Shubin has been joyfully making music all of her life. Both conservatory and life-trained, she has performed and taught internationally as a flutist, a Suzuki educator and Dalcroze Eurhythmics instructor, an approach of teaching music through movement.
Her love of ecology led her to a degree in the field and she seeks to make science not only accessible for her students, but to also deepen their awareness and connection to the world around them and the communities they reach - whether from the performance stage, at home, in schools, or in nature.
She is represented by the Wm.S. Haynes flute company, and strives to creatively combine and share her love of music, movement, improvisation, performance and ecology with students of all ages. Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Integral Steps, Emma currently is pursuing her PhD at the University of Luxembourg researching the impact of integrating movement with instrumental learning for young musicians.
This course was originally given October 6-21, 2024.
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