Creating A Culture Of Movement With Dalcroze Eurhythmics

This hands-on session will provide activities and information about successfully establishing movement as a norm in the music classroom. A variety of Dalcroze Eurhythmics activities will be experienced in a sequential manner to set up the students’ appropriate behavior and acceptance of movement in the classroom, as well as meeting the students’ developmental stages. Specifically, musical concepts addressed will be steady beat, meter, phrasing, durations, and expression. A diverse selection of music will be used in this session. The connections between the Dalcroze philosophy and Social Emotional Learning will be presented.

Dr. David Frego 

Penn State University
Retired Director and Professor

David Frego, Ph.D. is recently retired as the Director of the Penn State School of Music and professor of music education. He was the inaugural president of the American Eurhythmics Society. Frego regularly presents workshops on Dalcroze Eurhythmics around the globe and has published books, book chapters, DVDs and articles in music education journals and journals for arts medicine. With co-author, Dr. Marla Butke, Dalcroze Eurhythmics in the Choral Classroom was released in 2021. Meaningful Movement: A Music Teacher’s Guide to Dalcroze Eurhythmics, was published in 2016.

Dr. Marla Butke 

Otterbein University
Retired

Marla Butke, Ph.D., retired Professor of Music, is a Master Teaching Artist and Vice President of the American Eurhythmics Society. Dr. Butke has earned degrees from Miami University, Wright State University, and The Ohio State University. A sought-after clinician, she frequently presents Dalcroze workshops throughout the USA and internationally, having presented at international, national, state, and regional conferences including AES, OAKE, AMIS, and AOSA. Former academic positions include Professor of Music at Ashland University, and adjunct professor at Otterbein, Capital, and Xavier Universities where she has taught general music methods, conducting, choral methods, and directed various choral ensembles. Dr. Butke has co-authored two books with Dr. David Frego, Meaningful Movement: A Music Teacher’s Guide to Dalcroze Eurhythmics published by Music is Elementary (2016) and Dalcroze Eurhythmics in the Choral Classroom published by Hal Leonard (2021).

The FMEA Professional Development Conference and All-State Ensembles receive support in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.