Dalcroze Dance sessions

[eucalyptus44]

Could I ask for suggestions please? We need ideas for classical music sequences to be used in our 65+ Dalcroze dance/fitness class. We've used Shostakovich Jazz Waltz 2 and it was excellent; just the right mood and tempo. Our teacher has also used both the Downton and the Poirot themes but we're fed up with those! I've googled for ideas, but sites only come up with sequences that are pounding and relentless for fitness freaks! Thanks for any ideas.

[umslopogaas]

While I admit I have no idea what Dalcroze Dance entails, if you want something lively but not too frenetic, how about:

Poulenc, selections from Aubade and the keyboard concertos

Vivaldi, some of the Four Seasons, or, if like me you feel you've heard it much too often, selections from his very many other concertos

Stravinsky, selections from Apollon Musagete, Agon, Pulcinella, Danses Concertantes

[Mary Chambers]

My mother did Dacroze in the 1930s! I had no idea it was still going. I am not quite sure what it is, but I think it's about expressing music in movement.

Have you thought of ballet music, Tchaikovsky perhaps? Chopin piano music?

[doversoul1]

While I admit I have no idea what Dalcroze Dance entails, ...

Same here but there was a special series on dance on radio 3 (all BBC, I think) some while ago. One of the reviewers said ‘Rameau’s music is all very dance-able’, and for that matter, most Baroque suites are, including Bach’s, based on dance rhythms. You can be sure that Rameau, Telemann et. al. are far from pounding and relentless.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[gradus]

Would the first of the Schumann op12 Fantasiestucke work for you as a dance piece? Or for that matter almost any of the pieces in Carnaval.

[eucalyptus44]

Thank you so much for these lovely suggestions. I appreciate them very much and will take them along to tomorrow's class. We did Dalcroze Eurythmics at school but as a fiercely energetic and sporty child, I was hopeless as all those rather vague, wafty movements which made me collapse in giggles but 60+ years on, I'm really enjoying the sessions.

[eucalyptus44]

We actually have a retired ballerina in our group, an exquisitely elegant lady deep into her 80s who moves so gracefully. Will use your ideas. Thanks.

[eucalyptus44]

‘Rameau’s music is all very dance-able’, and for that matter, most Baroque suites are, including Bach’s, based on dance rhythms. Y

I hadn't thought of Rameau. Thank you.

[Bryn]

Should we not now be preparing for Brhythmics?

[doversoul1]

Thank you so much for these lovely suggestions. I appreciate them very much and will take them along to tomorrow's class. We did Dalcroze Eurythmics at school but as a fiercely energetic and sporty child, I was hopeless as all those rather vague, wafty movements which made me collapse in giggles but 60+ years on, I'm really enjoying the sessions.

Is it something similar or related to Eurythmy in Steiner schools?

[ahinton]

Should we not now be preparing for Brhythmics?

!!!

If so, however, will that mean that we have by the same token to drop euphemisms, euphoria, eunuchs, eugenics and eulogies, stop teaching about Euclid and relocate the Euphrates?

[Bryn]

!!!

If so, however, will that mean that we have by the same token to drop euphemisms, euphoria, eunuchs, eugenics and eulogies, stop teaching about Euclid and relocate the Euphrates?

That rather depends on hard or soft, what?

[eucalyptus44]

Yes, I believe it is.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes, I believe it is.

Just to clarify - this is a response to #11, and not to #13, isn't it?