Navigating Landscapes of Dalcroze Practice: Histories of Music and Movement

A landmark publication in Dalcroze studies that explores the music and movement teaching originated by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze as a diverse and living practice. Navigating Landscapes of Dalcroze Practice provides new perspectives on the pioneering music education developed by Swiss composer Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950), who explored how to learn music through listening, moving, singing, and improvising with the original instrument, the human body. It is the first collection of Dalcroze histories to focus on practice itself, showing how methods and ideas have moved among and been shaped by people, performance practices, and contexts from music education and music therapy to dance, theatre, and physical education. Rather than focusing primarily on Jaques-Dalcroze and his teaching, these histories reveal the collaborations of many people from various backgrounds and places over more than a century of practice. Sixteen international authors mark out pathways into the past, exploring how Dalcroze-based teaching has transcended disciplinary boundaries and moved across borders transnationally, from Europe to Australia and North and South America. They guide us through landscapes of Dalcroze practice where music and movement provide benefits to students, teachers, and performers, as well as children, seniors, disabled people, and those with special educational needs. Demonstrating how practitioners and supporters have interacted with social, political, and educational change, the book considers the impact of two World Wars, advances in technology, and global health challenges on the evolution of Dalcroze practice. Contributors: Marie-Laure Bachmann, William R. Bauer, Gilles Comeau, Mônica Fagundes Dantas, Katarzyna Forecka-Wasko, John Habron-James, Marja-Leena Juntunen, Erik M. Kirchgäßner, Silke Kruse-Weber, Johanna Laakkonen, Janice Zarpellon Mazo, Sandra Nash, Selma Landen Odom, Joan Pope, Dorothy de Val, Rose Whyman

Table of Contents:
Introduction - John Habron-James, Selma Landen Odom, and Johanna Laakkonen 1. Writing Histories of Dalcroze Practice - John Habron-James, Selma Landen Odom, and Johanna Laakkonen 2. Practice in Motion: Colleagues, Students, and Community at Hellerau - Selma Landen Odom 3. Jaques-Dalcroze's Eurhythmics: Origins and Originality - Marie-Laure Bachmann 4. Movement and Dance in the Post-Dalcroze Hellerau as a Transnational Practice - Johanna Laakkonen 5. The Influence of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze on the Art of Movement in Revolutionary Russia - Rose Whyman 6. Mapping the Pioneering Pathways for Dalcroze Teaching in Australia and New Zealand, 1919-59 - Sandra Nash and Joan Pope 7. The Dalcroze Method and the Institute of Physical Culture in Porto Alegre, Brazil: Historical Perspectives on Pedagogy and Performance - Mônica Fagundes Dantas and Janice Zarpellon Mazo 8. Dalcroze Education in the United States: Building a Community of Practice - William R. Bauer 9. Persevering in Canada: Madeleine Lasserre and Brenda Beament Working in Ontario - Dorothy de Val and Gilles Comeau 10. Tracing Dalcroze-Inspired Practices in Finland: Three Artist-Pedagogues at the Sibelius Academy in the Twentieth Century - Marja-Leena Juntunen 11. Jaques-Dalcroze and German Piano Pedagogy in the First Three Decades of the Twentieth Century: Connection Points between Concepts of Teaching and Learning - Silke Kruse-Weber and Erik M. Kirchgäßner 12. Eurhythmics on Air: Maria Wieman's Radio Broadcasts for Kindergartens in Poland - Katarzyna Forecka-Wasko 13. Priscilla Barclay's Practice: Transforming Dalcroze Eurhythmics at St. Lawrence's Hospital, England - John Habron-James 14. Health and Well-being in Contexts of Dalcroze Practice: Education, Therapy, and Medicine - John Habron-James and Selma Landen Odom

About the Author :
Dr JOHN HABRON-JAMES is Professor in Music and Head of Music, Health, and Wellbeing at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester Dr JOHANNA LAAKKONEN is Director of the Theatre Museum in Helsinki and was previously Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Helsinki Dr SELMA LANDEN ODOM is Professor Emerita at York University in Toronto, where she taught dance studies and research methods from 1972 to 2012