About
Fier
What is FIER?
FIER is about Eurhythmics. Eurhythmics is about music and movement.
FIER stands for « La Fédération Internationale des Enseignants de Rythmique » (the International Federation of Eurhythmics Teachers). It is an association which gathers together Eurhythmics teachers, the majority of whom teach according to the principles of Jaques-Dalcroze, and people throughout the world interested in Eurhythmics.
FIER is composed of a central committee whose headquarters are in Geneva, and of an assembly of delegates representing the various national associations.
Its goal is to promote the exchange of ideas and experiences pertaining to Eurhythmics, and this, by means of its publications, the organization of conferences and courses, and the Congress every three years. In these ways it works for the promotion and development of Eurhythmics on an international level.
For any question or request about the Jaques-Dalcroze or the Dalcroze use of the name, please contact the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland.
Check the conditions governing the trademark on the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze website: https://dalcroze.com/trademark/
What is eurhythmics?
It is a way of experiencing music through the interplay with movement. Perceiving, exploring, improvising and composing music and movement in interactive group settings builds the core of the practice.
The subject aims at the development and differentiation of musical as well as motor skills as intertwined qualities. This forms the basis for learning processes, creative and artistic development in actualising the individual´s potential.
Eurhythmics goes back to the pioneering work of the Swiss music educator and composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865 – 1950). In its centenary history eurhythmics pedagogues have developed manifold characteristics and spread them worldwide.
What is an Eurhythmics Practitioner?
Using music and rhythm, they are teachers who have developed multilayered skills in movement. A eurythmic practitioner plays various instruments and loves to improvise in their quest to facilitate the self-realization of the students, be they children or adults. Because this method is as artistic as it is pragmatic, a eurythmic practitioner has discovered the interconnectivity of all the various arts. This to such an extent, that it allows them to initiate, in endless variations, teaching processes using challenging and playful exercises of creative responsiveness and coordination. The result is that the student is constantly presented with chances to integrate and optimize their own personality.
How to become a member of the FIER?
You can join the FIER as a national association or as an individual member.
Financial
Grants
GUIDELINES for FINANCIAL GRANTS by the FIER
Each year the FIER invites candidates to apply for financial assistance, through the annual newsletter from the president of the FIER to the delegates and via the FIER website.
The FIER allocates a certain sum every year. This sum may differ each year according to the financial situation of the FIER.
1. Financial support for study
Study projects would include:
a. Students studying for the Diplôme Supérieur.
b. Any other worthwhile study project (PhD at a music university, PhD in science or arts related to Eurhythmics …)
c. Students needing financial assistance to attend an international congress.
(It does not include paying travel fees)
3. Guidelines for applying for Financial assistance from FIER
2. Support for projects with Eurhythmics
These projects would include:
a. Teacher trainings in developing countries.
b. Projects of interest to the eurhythmics community.
c. Publications.
d. Congresses or conferences.
e. Eurhythmics Days.
(It does not include paying travel fees)
4. Scholarship Committee
a. The scholarship committee (comprising 3 persons of the FIER committee) is responsible for assessing together every application for financial aid from the FIER.
b. The scholarship committee has full jurisdiction to allocate scholarships, but refers these requests to the entire committee for final acceptance.
The committee of FIER
Staff
Dorothea Weise
PRESIDENT
Contact: weise@udk-berlin.de
Eiko Ishizuka
MEMBER
Contact: eiko_ishizuka@hotmail.com
Ms. Eiko Ishizuka is a faculty member in the Dalcroze program at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge MA and the director of the Dalcroze Summer Institute. Since 2004 she has taught Eurhythmics, Dalcroze Solfège, improvisation and plastique animée for the Dalcroze certificate candidates and the graduate students. She is also a faculty member at the Dalcroze School of the Rockies Dalcroze Academy since 2014. She is a founder and coordinator of the Dalcroze Teacher Training Program at Winchester Community Music School, Winchester, MA through the Dalcroze Society of America’s Teacher Training Program. Her musical and unique teaching styles have been an inspiration to her students in the States and abroad. Ms. Ishizuka has been teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics since 1993 and has given workshops in Japan and the United States for classical musicians, music teachers, and music therapists. Workshops she has let at Winchester Community Music School, the Bridgewater College, Minghsin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, Dalcroze Society of Japan, Dalcroze Society of Canada, Dalcroze Society of America at New England, New York, Northwest, and Colorado chapters, and USA national conference, and Institut Jaques-Dalcroze international Congress. Ms. Ishizuka has performed as a pianist and collaborative pianist in Japan, Israel, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States with a broad repertoire of classical and theater music . A candidate of Dalcroze Diplôme Supérieur, Ms. Ishizuka is a member of the board of Dalcroze Society of America’s board of trustees
£aetitia Disseix-Berger
WEBMASTER
Contact: laetitia.disseixberger@gmail.com
Dalcroze. Professeur d’enseignement artistique, elle enseigne par le biais de cette méthode au CRD Henri Tomasi de Corse sur le site de Bastia ainsi que dans différentes structures de formation professionnelle lors de master-class – Pôle Sup’ 93, Pôle Musique et Danse de Metz, etc. ainsi que lors d’académies d’été à l’étranger, en Suisse, en Angleterre et aux Etats-Unis.
Membre du bureau de l’Association DALCROZE France, et du comité de la FIER, elle est co-responsable de la formation du « Certificat DALCROZE France ».
Parallèlement à ses activités pédagogiques, elle papillonne d’univers en univers, et découvre avec joie les claquettes américaines, le clown, la CNV ou plus récemment l’Hypnose Ericksonienne.
Liu Kai
MEMBER
Contacts: lkai@ccom.edu.cn or liujapy@126.com
Kai LIU, MD, Associate Professor and Director of the Music and Movement Division at the Institute of Music Education, Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in China. Jaques-Dalcroze Diplôme Supérieur, Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, IJD (2019). Kai holds a MA in Dalcroze Eurhythmics Pedagogy from the Haute Ecole de Musique, HEM (2012) and a MA in Music Education from CCOM (2012). Kai also obtained his BA in ethnomusicology from CCOM and another BA in music and movement from HEM.
Kai is a respected lecturer in the field of Dalcroze Eurhythmics. He teaches Music and Movement, Keyboard Improvisation, and Western Music History at the CCOM and he also taught junior level Music Comprehensive Course at affiliated middle school of the CCOM and Beijing Dance Academy. Kai is a lecturer at the Chinese National Music Teacher Training Program held by CCOM. Between 2015 and 2019, Kai has taught and given presentations at the 28th and 29th Dalcroze Congress in Geneve and at the Han-Sei International Dalcroze Workshop in South Korea.
Kai is a specialist of early western keyboard instruments. He has studied harpsichord and fortepiano with Michel Kiener, Classical piano improvisation with David Marteau. Kai is also a jazz pianist, organist and composer who frequently perform in important venues such as Blue Note Beijing. Kai is currently the teacher of Basso Continuo for students of organ major at the keyboard department of CCOM.
Kai is going publish two translation books on 2023 - The Notation is Not the Music-reflection on early music practice and performance into Chinese by Barthold Kuijken and Historical Harpsichord Technique-developing la douceur du toucher by Yonit Lea Kosovske.
Andrew Davidson
MEMBER
Diplôme Supérieur Méthode Jaques-Dalcroze, BMus (Hons I), MMus
Contact: a.davidson@gsa.surrey.ac.uk
Andrew is an Australian musician and theatre practitioner based in London, UK. He is a Senior Lecturer in Acting and Musical Theatre at Guildford School of Acting (GSA), University of Surrey. He is the former Head of Dramatic Arts at the Australian Institute of Music (AIM).
Andrew has over three decades’ experience in Dalcroze Eurhythmics and is recognised internationally as an expert practitioner. His qualifications include the Diplôme Supérieur Méthode Jaques-Dalcroze from the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze (IJD), Switzerland; a Master of Music and the Dalcroze Licence from Longy School of Music, USA; and the Professional Certificate in Dalcroze Eurhythmics from Dalcroze Australia. Andrew also holds the Professional Certificate in the Kodály Concept from the British Kodály Academy (BKA).
As a musician, Andrew composes, plays piano for dance, and has taught music at all levels. He has trained and examined Dalcroze teachers in Australia and the UK, and is a guest lecturer, consultant, and external examiner for degree programmes and CPD courses. He holds a Bachelor of Music (Hons I) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, and studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe at the University of Sydney.
As a theatre practitioner, Andrew directs plays, operas, and musicals, and teaches acting across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in a university conservatoire. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, and is a graduate of Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).
Andrew is an advocate for educational and workplace wellbeing. He is trained in Mental Health First Aid (MHFA England) and is the Wellbeing Champion for Guildford School of Acting (GSA). Andrew is a member of GSA’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity (EDI) Forum, and co-presents training in LGBTQIA+ Awareness across the University of Surrey.
Andrew is studying for a PhD at the University of Surrey. His research is published with open access in Arts, the British Journal of Music Education, Research in Dance Education, Stanislavski Studies, and Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. He has presented papers at conferences in Australia, Canada, Poland, Switzerland, UK, USA, and online.
Honours include a Helpmann Scholarship, a Lili & Nadia Boulanger Scholarship, and a Queen’s Trust Award. He was nominated for ArtsHub Awards in 2011 and 2012, and was voted Tutor of the Year in 2006 by the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP). Andrew is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and the Royal Society for Arts (FRSA).
Hanne Pilgrim
MEMBER
Contact: contact@hannepilgrim.de
Hanne Pilgrim is a eurhythmics practitioner, pianist and performer with a focus on experimental projects that combine music and movement. After her studies in eurhythmics and piano at the Berlin University of the Arts she was a lecturer at the eurhythmics departments in Berlin and Weimar between 2007 and 2017. Subsequently she moved to Vienna and led the department of Music and Movement Education/ Eurhythmics at the University of Music and Performing Arts as professor for eurhythmics from 2017-2022.
Currently, Hanne is focusing on her work as principal artistic investigator in the artistic research project “Atlas of Smooth Spaces” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Personal website: https://hannepilgrim.de, project website: https://the-smooth.space/
ANAÏS VOUILLAMOZ
TREASURER
Née en 1981 à Sion
Contact : yoyoba@hotmail.ch / @ana_vouuuuu
En 2003, Anaïs obtient son diplôme d’enseignement de rythmique (musique et mouvement) à la Haute Ecole des Arts de Berne/HKB.
2002-2019 Professeure d’initiation musicale-rythmique au Conservatoire Cantonal du Valais.
2007-2015 Doyenne du décanat de l’initiation musicale au Conservatoire Cantonal du Valais.
2002- 2023 Enseignement dans de nombreuses écoles de musique et écoles publiques du canton du Valais.
2015/2017/2023 Co-directrice artistique pour les spectacles des écoles de la ville de Sion.
Parallèlement à ses activités pédagogiques, Anaïs s’initie à la danse et à la percussion africaine. De 2000 à 2012, elle joue dans le groupe « Jungle Percussion ».
Dès 2013, elle se passionne pour la photographie et collabore avec différents artistes et photographes sous forme d’expositions, d’échanges visuels et de performances.
Elle est aussi la trésorière de l’association « Rythmique Dalcroze Suisse- Association professionnelle » depuis 2014.
Staff
DOROTHEA WEISE
Contact: weise@udk-berlin.de | www.udk-berlin.de
Born in Norderney / Germany in 1961.
1983-1987 Eurhythmic Studies at the College of Music, Cologne.
1987- 2006 lecturer in movement-education with focus on technique, improvisation, composition and theory at the Eurhythmic Department of Trossingen College of Music.
2006 – 2008 professor per proxy with additional competency in didactics/ methodology/ teaching eurhythmics for adults. Ongoing advanced training in modern dance – and improvisation techniques, movement analyses and Spiraldynamik. Domestic and abroad workshops and training activities, dance performances in engagement with music and image.
In 2006 co-organisator of the European Eurhythmics Congress Trossingen. Since 2008 president of the Conference Music and Movement / Eurhythmics (Arbeitskreis Musik und Bewegung / Rhythmik e.V.).
2005/2007/2009/2010 Master classes and lectures in Stockholm, Vienna, Geneva, South- Corea.
Since 2008 head of the Eurhythmics departement at the University of the Arts Berlin.
Sandra Nash
Contact: sjnash@ihug.com
Sandra has taught music for over twenty years including three years on the faculty of Laval University, Quebec City. She has been Director of Music at two leading schools in Sydney. Since 1994 she has been the Course Director of the Dalcroze Summer Schools held in Sydney, Toowoomba Qld. and Adelaide. Currently she is president of the Dalcroze Society of NSW and along with other Australian colleagues, she gives courses for Dalcroze Teacher Development and works to promote Dalcroze in Australia. She is often invited to give workshops for piano and string teachers, early childhood teachers and performers. She has also given workshops in the USA, Taiwan, and at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva and has been a jury member for Dalcroze Certificate, Licentiate and Diploma examinations.
She is the currently the co-ordinator of the Junior Training Program and a part- time lecturer in Music Education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, as well as being a freelance teacher of piano, and Dalcroze Eurhythmics.
Angelika Hauser-Dellefant
Contact: hauser@mdw.ac.at
Univ. – Prof. Dipl. Rhyth. Angelika Hauser-Dellefant studied music and movement/rhythmics in Hannover, Germany and movement-theatre in Paris, France with Jacques Lecoq, Philippe Gaulier and Monique Pagneux. She has also achieved a diploma of French Language and a diploma of Franklin-Method on the professional level.
She gave lessons in „music and movement/rhythmics“ to children, teens, adults as well as piano lessons to handicapped children.
Since 1983 she is teaching in the field of "music and movement/rhythmics" at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. She has also taught at the Bruckner-University of Music and Performing Arts in Linz, Austria working mainly with dance-students: „music and movement/rhythmics for dancers“ and “theatre for dancers” from 1992 to 2004.
In 2002 Angelika Hauser-Dellefant became head of the Institute for Music and Movement-Education and Music-Therapy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, since 2017 head of the of the Institute for Music and Movement-Education and Music Physiology.
Furthermore she is working as a musician, dancer, choreographer, performer and trainer in art productions for universities, theatres and other institutions.
She held international workshops and lectures for congresses as well as symposia and has worked at different institutions in Europe, South America, North America and South Africa.
She published various papers in different expert journals and books in German, English and Portuguese.
Picture credits: Anthony Ilott
Christine Straumer
Contact: straumerchristine@gmail.com
Born in Lusatia, Germany, Christine Straumer, retired professor of Eurhythmics and Elemental Music Education, grew up in her home region in the musical environment of a music school and parish. After graduating from high school, she studied piano and music education at the Dresden University of Music from 1975-1979 and eurhythmics from 1990-1993. She is co- founder (1981) and director of the children's class at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Through her work, the subject of eurhythmics and elemental music education was developed and consolidated at the Dresden University of Music.
Her extensive teaching activities have taken her to colleagues and universities in Germany and abroad, including Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Geneva. She has developed numerous artistic projects with children, young people and students, in which the interplay of singing, music, movement, light and visual art elements determine the scenes. She creates stories, writes songs and texts, composes and improvises. The ideas for these mostly arise in her practical work, which is shaped by her diverse experiences of working with people with different talents.
Christine Straumer has published (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021) on the history of the Festspielhaus Hellerau, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze and eurhythmics (connections to language, instrumental playing, methodology, piano improvisation). She is a founding member (2001) and first chairwoman of the “Institut Rhythmik Hellerau e.V.” and is a volunteer for the further dissemination of eurhythmics.
Laura Ono
Contact: laura@dalcroze.ca
Laura Ono has a Certificate in Dalcroze Eurhythmics from the Longy School of Music of Bard College (Cambridge, MA), and is currently completing overseas studies in the Dalcroze License, under the direction of Karin Greenhead, Jacqueline Vann and Louise Mathieu. Laura also holds an ARCT in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) as well as an Advanced Certificate in Early Childhood Music Education, a joint program between the RCM and Ryerson University. She has also completed pedagogy studies in Kodály and Orff
Laura is currently the Training Chair and Past President for Dalcroze Canada. From 2009-2019 she was also the director and founder of My Musical Upbringing, a private music studio specializing in Early Childhood Music Education in Toronto. In addition to her musical training, Laura also holds an Honours Bachelor Degree in Communications (University of Ottawa) and a Master of Business Administration (York University).
Anne-Gabrielle Chatoux
Contact: annegabriellechatoux@yahoo.fr
Anne-Gabrielle CHATOUX-PETER est titulaire du Diplôme Supérieur de la méthode Jaques-Dalcroze. Suisse d’origine, elle vit depuis plus de 20 ans en France où elle enseigne la musique par le biais de la pédagogie Jaques-Dalcroze. Son enseignement s’adresse aux enfants et aux adolescents du Conservatoire de Vincennes et aux enfants de la maîtrise de Radio France. Elle est également formatrice au CNFPT (Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale), à la DASCO (Direction des Affaires Scolaires de la Ville de Paris), au CFMI (Centre de Formation des Musiciens Intervenants), au CND (Centre National de la Danse) et dans différentes structures de formation professionnelle où elle anime des stages destinés aux professionnels dans les domaines de la musique, de la voix et de la danse. Dans ce même esprit, elle dirige, pour les professionnels toujours, un atelier régulier d’initiation à la pédagogie Jaques-Dalcroze (Rythmique-Solfège-Improvisation) au conservatoire de Vincennes. Elle est régulièrement invitée pour animer des workshops et présenter la méthode dans des séminaires, des congrès, des conservatoires à travers toute la France, en Angleterre et en Suisse. Elle est présidente de l’Association Dalcroze France
Isa D'Alessandro
Contact: isadalessandro@gmail.com
Pianist, is Professor of Piano for Music Education at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music, in Rome, where she also teaches Dalcroze Eurhythmics.
She graduated in Piano summa cum laude and in Harpsichord.
She gave concerts as a soloist and in chamber music groups until 2005.
In 1994, the encounter with Louisa Di Segni got her passionate about the Dalcroze method.
She holds a Dalcroze Certificate from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and a Dalcroze License granted from the UK Dalcroze Society.
She teaches in Dalcroze certificate training courses organized by AIJD in collaboration with DEIEB; she gives seminars in different conservatories, with the SIEM (Italian Association for Music Education), the AIKEM (Italiana Kodaly Assotiation for Music Education) and other Italian organizations. Since 2003 she has been working to diffuse the Dalcroze Eyrhythmics in Italy, with the AIJD - Italian Jaques-Dalcroze Association.
She teaches in Dalcroze certificate training courses organized by AIJD in collaboration with DEIEB; she gives seminars in different conservatories, with the SIEM (Italian Association for Music Education), the AIKEM (Italiana Kodaly Assotiation for Music Education) and other Italian organizations
Since 2003 she has been working to diffuse the Dalcroze Eyrhythmics in Italy, with the AIJD - Italian Jaques-Dalcroze Association.
Sachiko Muranaka
Contact: musacchan@gmail.com
Ms. Muranaka has been teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics since 1990. She has given workshops for children, musicians and music teachers in Japan (Nagoya School of Music, Showa University of Music, Sapporo Otani University), USA (Carnegie Mellon University) and Singapore (Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts). She was also invited on multiple occasions to teach at international conferences in Japan, Korea and Switzerland. She currently teaches the Early Childhood module “Expression,” as well as body movement and music improvisation to students of the Child Psychology Program at Sapporo International University.
She is the current president of the Jaques-Dalcroze Society of Japan.
Sandra Degen
Contact: sandra.degen@ife.uzh.ch
Sandra Degen is a graduated eurhythmic and piano teacher and taught at a music school for twenty years. After graduating in pedagogy and psychology, she now works as a doctoral student and scientific assistant at the Institute of Education at the University of Zurich and as a lecturer for general didactics and pedagogical psychology in the master's programmes of School Music at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Currently she is president of the Swiss Society of eurhythmic teachers in the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
Younsun Choi
Contact: choiys215@gmail.com
Younsun Choi is a Dalcroze teacher, university lecturer, and modern dance accompanist living in Seoul. She earned her Dalcroze License from Hansei University in 2015 and her Dalcroze Certificate from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. She also majored in piano at Kyunghee University and Graduate School, and earned her Doctorate (DMA) in Piano Pedagogy from Hansei University in 2012.
She currently serves as the Editorial Section Chair of the Dalcroze Society of Korea, she teaches Dalcroze at universities and the Hansei Dalcroze Center, and she serves as an accompanist for modern dance classes at the Korea National University of Arts. She also serves as a pianist in the Vocal Ensemble. She has also been conducting 'Child Artist in Movement' classes with in the form of projects at art museums.
Elin Waileth Wikström
Contact: usikirorelse@gmail.com
Elin Waileth Wikström is a eurhythmics practitioner, teacher, dancer and performer with a focus on combining live music and movement. After her studies in Rytmik /eurhythmics and Music pedagogy at Malmö Academy of music (graduated 2012) Elin started to teach children's music class in school and community programs, with eurhythmics as the foundation. Parallel with teaching Elin studied different dance forms with the core in live music and improvisation and started to create her own multi-disciplinary projects for stage and classroom, for both children and adult audiences. Since 2013 Elin has collaborated in the creative danceduo Waileth & Bardon working with improvisation and inclusivity. From 2017 Elin teaches eurhythmics at Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University, at the music teacher program, community arts program and continuing education courses.
Personal website: https://wailethbardon.se/
Academy website: https://www.mhm.lu.se/elin-wikstrom
Mindy Shieh
Contact: dalcrztw@ms31.hinet.netwww.dalcroze.org.tw
B1, 80-1 Ningbo West St. RC- TAIWAN 100 TAIPEI
Tel+886-2-2393-8426 Fax+886-2-2393-8425
Introduced to the piano at the tender age of five by her mother, Mindy Shieh has since accumulated fifty-two years of music training and experience. She is a graduate of the Department of Music at the National Taiwan Normal University, where she majored in piano. She has an M.A. in Piano Accompaniment from the West Chester University Department of Music, studied in Musicology Ph.D. from the Faculty of Music at the Universityof Toronto, and the Certificates both in Music Theory (First Honor with Distinction) and Piano Teacher from The Royal Conservatory of Music (Canada). She received her Dalcroze Eurhythmics Full Dalcroze Teacher’s Certificate (License) at the Dalcroze School of Music in New York, where she studied with Dr. Hilda Schuster. Mindy Shieh is in fact the last person to have received an International License from Dr. Schuster, who passed away after some fifty years of teaching at the Dalcroze School of Music, during which time she instructed such Dalcroze masters as Robert M. Abramson, Lisa Parker, Anne Farber and Ruth Alperson.
Mindy Shieh is the first holder of the Dalcroze Eurhythmics Teacher’s License in Taiwan. Since returning to Taiwan in 1993, she has made it her personal mission to promote and expand Dalcroze concepts and teaching methods here on the whole island. To this end she has given numerous workshops and teacher training programs on the Dalcroze teaching methods. In 1994 she became chief editor of the Dalcroze Eurhythmics Journal and in 1998 Chair of the Board of Dalcroze Society of Taiwan. She is currently as an associate professor teaching the Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Piano at the National Tsing Hua University, University of Taipei, and Soochow University. She was recently appointed to serve as the Committee Member of Curriculum & Instruction Consulting Committee on Life Curriculum in Ministry of Education . These qualifications clearly demonstrate her professionalism.
Mindy Shieh has been invited to give workshops in Tokyo, Hellerau, Warsaw, Katowice, and Shanghai.
Cécile Polin-Rogg
Contact:
Cécile Polin Rogg holds a degree in teaching eurhythmics according to the Jaques-Dalcroze method, and has also trained as a choral conductor with Michel Corboz, Pierre Cao, Claire Marchand and Didier Grojsman. Favouring the links between vocal work and the Dalcrozian approach to movement, she conducts children's and teenage choirs at the Geneva Conservatoire. On many occasions she has created original songs and performances for her student choristers, in collaboration with her husband Olivier Rogg.
She has conducted the choirs on several CD recordings, including Marie Henchoz's ‘Sautecroche’ and ‘Minicroche’ (published by LEP) and ‘Et Pan dans l'Emile’, songs by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze rearranged by 3 jazz musicians, published by Papillon.
Cécile has also been teaching eurhythmics in state schools in the canton of Geneva since 1994, and regularly runs courses organised by the DIP, the HEM, the Institut Européen de Chant Choral and the Choralies.
She is president of the professional association RYTHMIQUE DALCROZE SUISSE.
Kaye Barker
Contact: kaye.v.barker@gmail.com
Kaye began her Dalcroze Eurhythmics studies in 2008 and gained her Professional Certificate with Dalcroze UK in 2012 and her Licence in 2017. She completed the Diplôme Supérieur in December 2021 after study at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva, Switzerland.
Before starting her Dalcroze studies Kaye was a professional violinist and member of the BBC Philharmonic. After this she joined the Bridge String Quartet, which performed on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. In 2008 Kaye became a classroom teacher and was Head of Music in Gumley House School FCJ until 2018. During this time, she was the leader of Garden Opera.
Since 2018 Kaye has focused on teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics in a range of contexts. She teaches on the String & Brass Training Programme at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and gives workshops in Dalcroze Eurhythmics for professional musicians and teachers throughout England. She was teacher and Artistic Director of the Dalcroze UK Easter Course in 2019 and teaches on Dalcroze UK’s Spring Courses & Summer Schools. She also teaches regularly for the Dalcroze UK’s Teacher Training programme.
Since finishing her Diplôme studies Kaye has set up rhythmics classes for adults, led Taster Days, sessions and workshops and is organising a new course for the Foundation Award training (DEIEB) with Dalcroze UK. This will run as a hybrid of in-person weekly sessions and online sessions and starts in September 2022.
Lydia Mboko
Contact: lylou.mboko@gmail.com
1994-1996 : Diplômes de solfège des degrés d’excellence et perfectionnement-Académie des Arts de la Ville de Bruxelles
2002 : Diplôme de piano et claviers-Académie des Arts de la Ville de Bruxelles
2005 : Diplôme en Expression Corporelle-Institut de Rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze de Belgique 2006 : Diplôme en Rythmique-Institut de Rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze de Belgique
2010 : CAPE en mouvement-Communauté Française
2020 : CAPE en rythmique-Communauté Française
1995-2013 : Formation intensive en pratique, pédagogie et méthodologie des claquettes américaines (Tap Dance), avec Grégoire Vandersmissen
2002-2008 : Formation intensive en pratique, pédagogie et méthodologie de la danse contemporaine, avec Michèle Swennen
Professeur de Rythmique et d’Expression Corporelle (depuis 2005 et 2006), et professeur de claquettes américaines (depuis 2003) Lydia démarre par des collaborations avec des théâtres et leur programmation. Engagée ensuite dans la chorégraphie, elle acquiert une grande expérience en création de spectacles avec l’Opéra « Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie » où elle travaille 8 ans ; période
durant laquelle Lydia collabore étroitement avec RESEO-European Network for Opera, Music and Dance Education. Des projets avec les opéras de Liège, Dijon, Stockholm, Lille et Malmö, lui ouvrent son réseau professionnel. Evoluant en enseignement artistique officiel, elle enseigne la danse contemporaine, la chorégraphie rythmique, et la rythmique à l'Institut de Rythmique Jaques Dalcroze
de Belgique. Depuis 10 ans, elle enseigne aux étudiants en formation pédagogique à l'Ecole de Cirque de Bruxelles.
En 2016, Lydia développe son identité artistique, IMAO. Des projets de création ont déjà vu le jour, comme la participation aux Journées du Patrimoine à Bruxelles en 2019 avec une chorégraphie déambulatoire. Elle collabore avec l’Association Suzuki Brussels, et avec le réseau Suzuki néerlandophone, en proposant des workshops basés sur la rythmique et la chorégraphie pour des pianistes et violonistes de 4 à 18 ans.
Michael Joviala
Contact: m.joviala@yahoo.com
Michael Joviala is an improviser, composer and teacher who lives in Brooklyn, New York. In 2020, he earned the diplôme supérieur from the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze and a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Performance from Stony Brook Univesity in 2017. He directs the Dalcroze Program at the Lucy Moses School in New York City, and teaches at the Diller-Quaile School of Music, Columbia University and the Dalcroze School of the Rockies Dalcroze Academy. Michael created and directs the group Locomotors, an improvising ensemble for music and movement, inspired by the practices of Dalcroze and the tradition of free jazz. https://Joviala.com
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Marja-Leena Juntunen
Contact: marja-leena.juntunen@uniarts.fi
Gal Peleg-Witelson
Contact: galpelegwitelson@gmail.com
Gal Peleg-Witelson is a music educator, a lecturer in a music teacher training program at the Levinsky-Wingate Academic College of Education in Tel Aviv, and a big believer in the power and impact of music education. Gal received her Bachelor's degree in music education with an expertise in Dalcroze Eurythmics. Since then, she has been an enthusiastic advocator for music education and Dalcroze Eurythmics in Israel. She continued her Dalcroze studies participating in official summer courses in England, NYC and at the Longy school of music in Cambridge, USA.
In her Master's degree in Management and Leadership in Education in Executive M.A, at Tel Aviv University she researched the impact and effect of quality music education programs on creating valuable and meaningful community eco systems in the education system in Israel. She is very interested in this field of work and research and seeking further research opportunities these days, involving Dalcroze Eurhythmics in elementary schools' life and community.
Lydia Khoo
Contact: lydiakhoosn@gmail.com
Lydia graduated with First Class Honours in BMus (Hons) from UCSI university, majoring in piano performance and she is a recipient of the performance diplomas; DipABRSM and LRSM with the Royal Schools of Music, UK. Since her graduation in 2008, she has been actively giving individual piano lessons and music appreciation group classes in a private music school - Ann Perreau’s. Many of her work revolves around children and the youth; they are regularly featured in a variety of musical ensembles in the school’s In-house concerts and the annual concerts, besides preparing her students for music exams and competitions. Her encounter with Dalcroze in late 2015 has sparked a deep interest that led to her pursuit of the Dalcroze exam pathway with DEIEB, Australia. She is currently a candidate for Certificate level and is passionate about learning and integrating the holistic Dalcroze approach in her teaching.
Teresa Nowak
Contact: teresa-nowak@wp.pl
Musician, choreographer and pedagogue; she works using the method based on Emile Jaques – Dalcroze’s ideas; develops musicality, imagination and energy. A student of Marcela Hildebrandt-Pruska in Poland and of Elizabeth Vanderspar in London where she received Licentiate Diploma of Dalcroze Society in 1977; she is also a holder of Master's degree in law at Poznan University. At present an independent teacher, recently retired from the Academy of Music, Secondary Music School (the Department of Eurhytmics) and Ballet School in Poznań. She works with children and adults; in Poland and Europe. She conducts lectures and workshops in the field of eurhythmics and plastique animée for musicians, dancers, teachers and psychologists. In addition, she directs concerts and collages that combine music with other fields of art during festivals of contemporary music, in the cycle of activities such as “The gallery of sound” and “To hear the town”.
On Polish Radio she realized her own program: "Just music, small music" (music programs for children); collaborates with choirs creating a movement for stage to the repertoire of bands. The founder of “Ensemble of Plastique Animée” which creates choreographies and movement improvisation both for classical and contemporary music, for literature and visual arts. The author of the project called “My Music” - in the Center of Culture ”Zamek” in Poznań - which is a presentation of young, independent artists and discovering new musical phenomena with them. The project breaks the borders between genres, rejects academic artificiality, connects arts and, very often, is a brave introduction of music and movement into new, non-concert space.
Barbara Bernacka
Contact: rytmikaviva@wp.pl
Education: Baccalauréat et certificat de rythmique de Lycée de Musique de Poznañ (chez prof. M.Hildebrandt-Pruska) Diplôme d’éducation musicale de l’Ecole Supérieure de Musique a Lodz – faculté de la rythmique- (chez prof. Janina Mieczyñska – élève de E. J-Dalcroze) Licence d enseignement de rythmique (Institut Jaques Dalcroze a Genève) Cours: Svenska Dalcroze – Seminaret (chez Dagmar Wide, Palucca Schule, Dresden) Travail: Au commencement comme rythmicienne a l’école de musique a Lodz Actuellement comme professeur de rythmique à l’Académie de Théâtre à Varsovie et à l’Académie de Musique à Lodz. Elle est également l’auteur de deux livres,d’articles,de programmes d’enseignement d’éducation musicale, d’émissions de radio, de chorégraphies de théâtre.
Ritmica Viva «Ritmica viva» – methode de la communication non-verbale – est une proposition methodique d’auteur créant une possibilité de developpement de la pensée et de l’action creative, prenant en consideration en même temps l’engagement de l’esprit, de l’emotion et du corps. Ritmica viva est ouverte a tout le monde. On peut l’exercer à chaque age, independammant des gouts, talents et possibilités. Elle se vérifie dans la formation des enfants, de la jeunesse et des adultes. Elle est specialement utile, quand on travaille avec les troupes de théâtre, les ensembles de danse, de pantomime(professionnels ainsi que non-professionnels). Ritmica viva était présentée plusieurs fois au cours des congrès, conférences et sessions scientifiques en Pologne et a l’étranger (Geneve, Remscheid, Hellerau, Budapest, Riga,Tbilissi, Taipei).
Anetta Pasternak
Contact: anetta-pasternak@wp.pl
Anetta Pasternak was awarded the first prize at the Second European Eurhythmics Competition in Trossingen, Germany, and she won the first prize at the XXVI Tychy Theatre Meetings. She was the organizer of 10 editions of the annual all-Polish workshop sessions called "Music and Movement in Therapeutic Activities".
Included among her many lectures and workshops given in Poland and abroad are: Austria (University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna), Canada (Université Laval in Québec), Germany (Institute of Eurhythmics in Hellerau), Great Britain (Coventry University), Japan (Showa University of Music – Jaques-Dalcroze Society of Japan), Sweden (Royal College of Music in Stockholm), Switzerland (E. Jaques-Dalcroze Institute in Geneva), Ukraine (Pedagogical University in Odessa and Sumy), Taiwan (Dalcroze Society of Taiwan), USA (Dalcroze Society of America). She specializes in interpretation of 20th-century music, and using Dalcroze method in music therapy.
Jerison Harper Lee
Contact: jerisonharper@gmail.com
A passionate musician, dancer, pedagogue, Jerison has set his sight on making music accessible to a diverse audience and using music to better one’s life. For this life mission, he has chosen Dalcroze Eurhythmics and its approach to facilitate his work.
Jerison received both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (2016) in Dalcroze pedagogy from Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva . To further develop his knowledge and skills in working with Dalcroze, he has travelled the world to study with various Dalcroze masters. With his strong foundation in ballet and dance, he continued to study ballet and modern dance while in Geneva. The combination of mastery in both music and dance furnishes him with a unique ability to truly deliver the essence of Dalcroze Eurhythmics.
Since his return from Switzerland in 2015, Jerison has been actively promoting, conducting, and teaching Dalcroze workshops and classes to musicians, dancers and arts educators in Singapore, and has been repeatedly invited to present and teach in many Asian countries. His work has brought him to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, America and Australia.
Elda Nelly Treviño
Contact: eldanelly@gmail.com www.musicaviva.com.mx
Mobile: +52-8114969027
She holds a PhD in Psychology from the UANL (Summa Cum Laude), Bachelor and Master of Music in Piano Literature and Pedagogy from The University of Texas at Austin; Dalcroze Certificate and License from Carnegie Mellon University. She has received several awards such as Prize of the Arts in Auditive Arts (UANL 2009), Grant for international artistic residences FORCA Noreste 2010 and Program for Joint Research Matías Romero 2016-2017 from the Secretary of Foreign Relations of the Mexican government.
Dr. Treviño´s research interests are: the positive effects of Dalcroze Eurhythmics and musical training in general in different domains of life,
Neus Fernandez
Contact: neus.perkimba@hotmail.com
Elle est licenciée en rythmique par l’Institut Jaques-Dalcroze de Genève où elle a obtenu le prix de licence à la “Création”.
Sa spécialité est la Rythmique dans les Arts de la Scène.
Actuellement elle enseigne la rythmique à l’Institut du Theâtre de Barcelone, chez les danseurs et comédiens.
Elle contribue également à la formation des professeurs aux Conservatoires et Universités espagnoles intéressés à la méthode Jaques-Dalcroze.
Co-directrice de la Formation Continue Dalcroze en Espagne.Directrice de la Compagnie PerkImBa (Percussion-Improvisation-Ballet) crée avec Thierry Hochstätter et Directrice Pédagogique aux Stages de Formation PerkImBa.
Barbara Dutkiewicz
Contact: barbaradutkiewicz@hotmail.com
More at www.barbaradutkiewicz.pl
Barbara Dutkiewicz (PhD, hab.) holds distinguished diploma MA in Eurhythmics. She supplemented her skills by learning at Mime School of IOTA Sound and Movement Theater (Katowice) and SNDO Amsterdam University of the Arts.
As an Associate Professor at The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland she teaches: Eurhythmics, Methodology of Eurhythmics Teaching, Plastique animée - Choreography of Music, Movement Techniques, Court Dance, Piano Improvisation.
She is a valued scientific reviewer, the author of over 10 reviews in doctoral and postdoctoral dissertations. She has written over 30
individual articles published in Poland, Belgium, Switzerland, and Sweden.
She conducted master classes/papers or presented her artistic works in: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Great
Britain, HongKong, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Ukraine and USA. She is the author of over 80th music choreographies based on plastique animée.
She was awarded the first prize at the First European Eurhythmics
Competition in Trossingen, Germany(1994).
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Liesl van der Merwe
Contact: liesl.vandermerwe@nwu.ac.za
Contact address: Bremner street 8, Potchefstroom
2520. South African
Furthermore, Liesl is a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher. She completed the research project: Social Cohesion Through Community Music Engagement in South African Higher Music Education. She was one of the volume editors of the Peter Lang book: Ritualised Belonging: Musicing and Spirituality in the South African Context. She has also recently been invited, by the series editor, Prof Liora Bresler, to be on Springer's Editorial Board of the Landscapes: The Arts, Aesthetics, and Education book series, and she is the guest editor of a special edition on positive psychology and music education in the International Journal of Education and the Arts.
She also performs as a bassoonist in chamber music ensembles and is the conductor of the North-West Youth Orchestra.
Stephanie Schroedter
Contact: schroedter@mdw.ac.at
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw)
Department for Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics (mbp)
Singerstr. 26a/III · Seilerstätte 8/III
1010 Wien
Stephanie taught as visiting and substitution professor for musicology, dance studies, theatre and media studies. She organised several international conferences dealing with the interweaving of music, dance, theatre/performance and media art. Additionally to her work as book editor she wrote contributions to collective volumes, journals and lexica and gave talks on conferences in Europe as well as in the US and Canada.
Her latest research project “Bodies and Sounds in Motion“ (supported by the DFG), which she continues as part of her professorship for “Theories of Music and Movement“ at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, aims at the analysis of interplays of music/sound and movement/dance.
