Instrumental improvisation for movement and teaching

This class is rolled out over the two years of the Master’s and requires continuous, personalized work. It is based around the two main axes, music and movement. It develops all of the student’s senses: muscular, tactile, visual and aural.

It seeks to accompany the natural movements of each individual - balancing, turning, jumping, moving around - in all the possible tempi and characters. It enriches their musical vocabulary, and offers a great variety of tonal, modal or atonal improvisation materials.  It offers the chance to perform instrumental exercises involving reaction, incitement and inhibition, dynamic and agogic nuances and nuances of articulation.

Through multiple role plays, the student learns to dissociate their eyes and hands, while singing, making comments or proposing ways to make exercises more complicated.

The class adapts its musical proposals to suit the particular needs of a Dalcrozian lesson with its multiple aspects, with the focus by turns more on theory, rhythm or creativity, each period requiring different music.

Special emphasis will be placed on the importance of the left hand, a real pillar of rhythm, and on melodic narrative, facilitating the development of the pupil’s aural memory and the pleasure they take in singing, by expressing themselves with their body and its sense of shape.