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2015 150 Happy birthday, Monsieur Jaques! Bon anniversaire, Monsieur Jaques ! Foreword Paul Hille, Vienna, Feb. 2016 2015 was a great year for the international field’s major event of scientific exchange and Eurhythmics community due to Émile Jaques-Dal- acknowledgment of the crucial impulses by croze’s 150th birthday. This volume of Le Rythme the founder of Eurhythmics, including his documents three mayor events. In March: method but also his philosophy and Wel- q The Remscheid Conference: Émile Jaques- tanschauung. Dalcroze 150 – Bonne anniversaire! Interna- All the three events and with them the articles tional Eurhythmics Festival with a special by authors from Germany, Australia, Austria, the artistic outcome by the foundation of the USA, Canada, Korea —for the first time! — and Remscheid Open Arts Rhythmics Reactor/ the UK show that our community is on its way to ROARR. q a more specific scientific discourse. Eckart In July: Altenmüller explains the multisensory-mo- q The Geneva Congrès International Jaques- tor integration, audiation and embodiment Dalcroze, which concerned the interactions of Eurhythmics. between pedagogy, art and science and their q expand historical research on the first and influence on learning music through music later generations of Dalcroze teachers. Ka- today and in future times. rin Greenhead describes personalities and q The 2nd International Conference of Dalcroze situations, which influenced Émile Jaques- Studies (ICDS) in Vienna. Thanks to John Dalcroze’s life and investigates why and how Habron, this conference has become our he created his method. She also gives an About Le Rythme est édité par la FIER (Fédération Internationale des Enseignants de Rythmique) Siège social : 44, Terrassière, CH-1207 Genève www.fier.com | [email protected] The views expressed in Le Rythme do not necessarily represent those of FIER. Copyright remains the property of the individual author. Membres du comité Paul Hille, président ................................................ [email protected] Fabian Bautz, vice-président .................................... [email protected] Mary Brice, trésorière.............................................. [email protected] Michèle de Bouyalsky .............................................. [email protected] Hélène Nicolet, secrétaire ........................................ [email protected] Pablo Cernik, reponsable Facebook ......................... [email protected] Dorothea Weise ....................................................... [email protected] Eiko Ishizuka .......................................................... [email protected] Directrice de la rédaction Michèle de Bouyalsky Rédacteurs Dorothea Weise, Karin Greenhead, Selma Landen Odom, Younsun Choi, Jeremy Dittus, William R. Bauer, Eleonore Witoszynskyj, Paul Hille, Eckart Altenmüller, Joan Pope, Sandra Nash, Grazyna Przybylska-Angermann Couverture Archives Fondation Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, photo offerte par Martine Jaques- Dalcroze pour Le Rythme overview of the method, including its aims, was going on last year. Some of our intended arti- principles and ways of learning and teach- cles could not be published, because authors, such ing. Selma Odom, Joan Pope, Sandra Nash as Dr. Liesl van der Merwe about water winning and Eleonore Witoszynskyj show the impact in South Africa according to Dalcroze principles, of female students who became later pio- have been publishing their contributions already neers of Eurhythmics and dance education. in other journals. q give a new light on the dictum “une éduca- Publications of the proceedings of the Geneva tion pour la musique par la musique.” See and the Vienna Congresses are also planned. the process-versus-product discussion in the One word concerning language: we decided article by Bill Bauer and Jeremy Dittus. Yun to use English as our main language for economic Soon Choi’s article gives new theoretical and reasons and because English has become the inter- practical impulses by using the vocabulary national scientific language. Each national associa- of the Laban nomenclature. tion is invited to share their own translations of q give new impulses like the reports of the parts of the volume on the FIER website. We thank Remscheid Conference by Dorothea Weise our authors as well as our English-language editors and the article by Grazyna Przybylska-An- Mary Brice, Patricia Helm and Michael Schnack. germann about her embodiment work with opera singers. You’ll find here only a small selection of all that Contents Dorothea Weise Emile Jaques-Dalcroze 150: Bon anniversaire! ................................................................4 Dorothea Weise Why celebrating Dalcroze in Germany? ..........................................................................6 Karin Greenhead Drawing threads together ............................................................................................12 Selma Landen Odom Pioneering Work with Jaques-Dalcroze .........................................................................24 Younsun Choi A Study of the relationship between movement and music .............................................34 Jeremy Dittus, William R. Bauer Notes Inégales .............................................................................................................48 Eleonore Witoszynskyj , Paul Hille From Hellerau to Hellerau-Laxenburg ...........................................................................60 Eckart Altenmüller Émile Jaques-Dalcroze as a Visionary of Modern Brain Sciences .....................................70 Joan Pope, Sandra Nash Getting Started in historical research ............................................................................82 Grazyna Przybylska-Angerman Learning to Sing vs “Regietheater” ................................................................................92 4 Emile Jaques-Dalcroze 150 Bon anniversaire! A brief review to the International Eurhythmics Festival Dorothea Weise Eurhythmic Studies at the College of Music Cologne. Lecturer in movement-education with focus on technique, improvisation, composition and kinetics at the Eurhythmic Department of Trossingen College of Music. Ongoing advanced training in modern dance and improvisation techniques, movement analyses and Spiraldynamik®. Domestic and abroad workshops and training activities, Master classes and lectures. Co-organisator of the European Eurhythmics Congress Trossingen in 2006, the symposium “Improvisation” (2012) and the International Eurhythmics Festival in March 2015. Since 2008 president of the Association Music and Movement / Eurhythmics (Arbeitskreis Musik und Bewegung / Rhythmik e.V.). Currently head of the Eurhythmics department at the University of the Arts Berlin. Author of numerous specialist articles in fields related to the interplay between music and movement, sensing and acting, improvisation and composition. [email protected] www.udk-berlin.de/musik_und_bewegung www.musikbewegung.de Remscheid: International Eurhythmics festival (17-21 March 2015) 5 A special kind of birthday party, arranged by Barbara Schultze, Herbert Fiedler und Dorothea Weise took place at the Academy Remscheid from 17 – 21 March 2015 as an opening for the events series in 2015 to celebrate the 150th birthday of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. In close cooperation with the German Association of Music and Movement / Eurhythmics (AMBR) the academy presented an exten- sive workshop and conference program with international guests from numer- ous European countries and Argentina. The main focus being on, the Dalcroze method, eurhythmics with a special profile and interdisciplinary eurhythmics gave festival-goers a comprehensive insight into the field of eurhythmics, its methods and its perspectives, which should be as much in the particular inter- est of the participating students and young graduates as the panels of experts, discussing artistic and educational topics. On two evenings the competition finals for music and movement composition took place and were awarded from the juries, consisting of eurhythmics experts and artists from the field of choreography and performance. Category adults: 1st price Amelia Mauderli (Bern), 2nd price Anna Lipiec (Katowice), public award Cheng Xie (Weimar). Category children: No 1st but two 2nd prices: Michèle de Bouyalsky (Bruxelles) and Elena Romanowa (Moscow), public award Johanna Claus (Biel/Bienne). A further highlight was “The humour of voice” performed by Hilde Kappes (Berlin). It seems rather unbelievable that only one person is able to bring out all these characters of voice and sound, personalities and ages she typified in such a warm and cheerful way. The audience was enthusiastic. The fully booked academy hummed from the activity of lecturers and partici- pants who shared five days of practicing, discussing and getting into contact. The last day a new project has been born: “INTER-Eurhythmics” wishes to connect eurhythmic students and graduates for regular interdisciplinary exchange with related fields of activity and arts. A festival-video will be produced soon. Information: http://www.musikbewegung.de or http://akademieremscheid.de/fachbereiche/rhythmik/aktuelles/ Remscheid: International Eurhythmics festival (17-21 March 2015) 6 Why celebrating Dalcroze in Germany? Dorothea Weise Arbeitskreis Musik und Bewegung/Rhythmik Remscheid: International Eurhythmics festival (17-21 March 2015) 7 The event beginning today, is neither a conference, nor a meeting