{"id":19274,"date":"2025-11-28T19:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joviala.com\/jovialaworks\/?page_id=19274"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:56:59","slug":"dalcroze-practice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joviala.com\/jovialaworks\/teaching\/dalcroze-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rambles, musings, dead ends, live ends&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-19086 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-dalcroze-reference tag-dalcroze-practice tag-essays tag-featured tag-subjects\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Invisible Subjects<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Sometimes, to see the whole, we need to look at the parts. But suppose some of the parts are difficult to see? This is one of the things that makes Dalcroze education so notoriously hard to describe. In one sense, the curriculum for the Dalcroze classes I teach is very straightforward. The list contains things<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/joviala.com\/jovialaworks\/invisible-subjects\/\">read more<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-18161 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-writing tag-essays tag-featured\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Surviving Genius: an Imaginary Book Review<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Here\u2019s an idea for a book that I want someone else to write. The author would have a large breadth of cultural knowledge coupled with expertise in music and dance education, as well as somatic practice. He or she would be able to digest large amounts of information and have a keen mind for teasing<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/joviala.com\/jovialaworks\/surviving-genius-an-imaginary-book-review\/\">read more<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-14153 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-projects tag-essays tag-improvisation tag-projects\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Watching Music, Hearing Movement<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A collection of video about music and movement. Margaret Beals has been performing as improvising dancer for many years. (She is actually a friend of Dawn&#8217;s.) Here she is with sitar player and jazz musician Colin Wolcott (who participated in the groups Oregon, The Paul Winter Consort and Codona to name a few). There is<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/joviala.com\/jovialaworks\/watching-music-hearing-movement\/\">read more<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Articles I&#8217;ve written for the Dalcroze Society of America:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dalcrozeusa.org\/resource\/dalcroze-connections-vol-7-no-1\/spatial-orientation-and-awareness\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dalcrozeusa.org\/resource\/dalcroze-connections-vol-7-no-1\/spatial-orientation-and-awareness\/\">Imagination, Improvisation and Invention<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dalcrozeusa.org\/resource\/dalcroze-connections-vol-7-no-1\/spatial-orientation-and-awareness\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dalcrozeusa.org\/resource\/dalcroze-connections-vol-7-no-1\/spatial-orientation-and-awareness\/\">Spatial Orientation and Awareness<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dalcrozeusa.org\/resource\/dalcroze-connections-vol-8-no-2\/improvisation-in-the-dalcroze-classroom\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dalcrozeusa.org\/resource\/dalcroze-connections-vol-8-no-2\/improvisation-in-the-dalcroze-classroom\/\">Improvisation in the Dalcroze Classroom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rambles, musings, dead ends, live ends&#8230; Articles I&#8217;ve written for the Dalcroze Society of America:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19167,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9ohMj-50S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19214,"url":"https:\/\/joviala.com\/jovialaworks\/writing-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":19274,"position":0},"title":"Writing","author":"Michael Joviala","date":"November 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Essays, reflections, tangents, flights of fancy, dead ends, live ends... 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