Dalcroze Essentials: Elementary Pedagogy, the Dalcroze way, with Ruth Alperson (USA)
Dalcroze Essentials: Elementary Pedagogy, the Dalcroze way
A three-session short course with Ruth Alperson (USA)
[three 80-minute sessions]
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For this short course, I recorded videos of myself teaching children’s classes. My goals for the children in this 1st-2nd grade class include developing listening skills and concentration through movement. I use Dalcroze exercises such as quick reaction and follow. These students love to use materials, including hoops, balls and scarves, and they are beginning to improvise rhythm patterns, playing on small percussion instruments. I want the children to feel confidence in their singing voices--I hope they will love to sing. We use hand/arm/body movement to feel the motion of pitches in a melody.
In our first two sessions of this short course, you will be shown a video of portions of eurhythmics classes for these children. At the end of each session, there will be time for questions. In the third session, I will again entertain your questions and comments and we will discuss the Dalcroze approach in more detail. For me, improvising at the piano is a necessary tool in teaching the Dalcroze way. What if you do not feel comfortable at the piano? How can you use one-line instruments in this teaching? We can deal with these and other questions and issues.
Tuesday, March 4 (Americas)
- 4:00pm PST
- 5:00pm MST
- 6:00pm CST / CDMX
- 7:00pm EST
Wednesday, March 5 (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia)
- 12:00am(midnight) GMT / London
- 8:00am Western Australia / Singapore
- 9:00am Tokyo
- 11:00am Sydney
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Tuesdays, March 11, 18 (Americas, Europe, Africa)
- 4:00pm PDT
- 5:00pm MDT / CDMX
- 6:00pm CDT
- 7:00pm EDT
- 11:00pm GMT / London
Wednesdays, March 12, 19 (Asia, Australia)
- 7:00am Western Australia / Singapore
- 8:00am Tokyo
- 10:00am Sydney
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Ruth Alperson has a B.A. in Music from Oberlin College, where she was introduced to eurhythmics by Prof. Inda Howland. Ruth studied for two years at the Dalcroze School of Music in New York City, directed by Dr. Hilda Schuster; she earned the Dalcroze Licentiate from the Dalcroze Teachers Training Course, run by Elizabeth Vanderspar in London, England. The following year, Ruth attended the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, where she was awarded the Diplôme Supérieur. Ruth earned a Ph.D. from New York University in Arts & Humanities. Ruth is on the faculty of the Dalcroze Program at the Diller-Quaile School of Music, in New York City. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS) and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dalcroze Society of America. At the DSA Conference at Oberlin College in June, 2024, Ruth received the DSA Lifetime Achievement Award.
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