Jaques-Dalcroze eurhythmics

Taught by experienced professors, the eurhythmics class at the Haute école de musique de Genève (HEM) offers its students the opportunity to combine music and movement through collective exercises accompanied on the piano with improvised music. Eurhythmics helps musicians to read music scores in a more organic and personal way. It makes them more conscious of their movements and mastery, significantly improving their musicality.

The exercises are invented by the professors and based on all the different musical notions, drawn from pieces in the classical, jazz or pop repertoires: phrases, breathing, nuances, precision of movement, motor coordination. The collective aspect is a central element, because this methodology, though based on personal experience, puts the emphasis on invention, imitation of others, the crafting of choreography for a space by the group, and the variety of finished work that arises from these things.

The students at the HEM’s music and movement department regularly take part in Masterclasses, concerts or projects with a broader scope alongside the HEM’s other departments or a number of external cultural partners, including the Institut Jaques Dalcroze de Genève, with whom our institution has close ties. These various activities enable our students to pick up experience of broadcasting and of the stage, and to build the foundations of their professional network.