Tutuila
Tutuila , island (1990 pop. 45,043), 52 sq mi (135 sq km), largest island of American Samoa . The capital and principal harbor is Pago Pago . The island has a rugged eastern area, with a plain in the southwest. Near the center is Matafao Peak (2,141 ft/653 m), the highest point on Tutuila. Copra, canned fish, and handicrafts are the island's chief products.
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WHEN MUSIC IS DANCE EURHYTHMICS: MUSICIANSHIP THROUGH MOVEMENT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/23/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...Conservatory in Switzerland laid claim to the word. Emile Jaques-Dalcroze was unhappy with the stiff and stilted musicianship...Dalcroze" to avoid the common, John- Smith sound of Emile Jaques, his real name -- he decided his pupils needed to...
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The Path of a Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...principally why Steiner appears along with Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Sergey Volkonsky and Rudolf Laban. The...Unpardonable are such errors as 'Jacques Dalcroze' ('Jaques-Dalcroze' was Emile's family name) and 'Elmhurst' when it...
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Orfeo ed Euridice.(Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, Massachusetts)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 8/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...twentieth-century dancemakers--Isadora Duncan, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and George Balanchine--who had been fascinated...had danced to some of the opera's ballet music. Jaques-Dalcroze produced a seminal staging at Hellerau in 1913...
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Attitudes.(American modern dance)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Isadora erupted on the scene), extended by the Swiss Emile Jaques-Dalcroze. The seminal Hungarian Rudolf von Laban taught...and Mary Wigman, the latter also studying under Jaques-Dalcroze. Modern dance soon found fruitful soil in German...
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Mary Wigman
Magazine article from: Dance Teacher; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...breaking off both relationships. In 1910, at 24, she attended a dance performance by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, which inspired her to attend his school. (Dalcroze invented "eurythmies," a system of gestures and music designed to promote grace...
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Dance workouts: a brief history; Dance-based exercise regimens, which have twirled in and out for decades, are back in style. A look at how the original low-impact craze has come full circle.(Brief article)
Magazine article from: New York; 2/19/2007; ; 700+ words
; 1920s Self Improv Swiss composer Emile Jaques-Dalcroze develops Dalcroze eurythmics, a barefoot improvised dance meant to enhance flexibility. It's embraced by European high...
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Attitudes.(prehistoric art)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...although some modern dancers can better be traced back to Emile Jaques-Dalcroze and Rudolf yon Laban. Now Ms. Black, the hopeful...such as Pina Bausch, can even be traced back to Dalcroze/Laban and Denishawn and, for good measure, to...
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Retracing Lost Steps; Japanese Dancer's Pioneering Works Are Revived
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/14/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...and Vaslav Nijinsky he swapped his singing career for one in dance. He studied for two years in Germany with Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, the influential Swiss theoretician who devised a system of learning about music by moving the body to its rhythms...
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A mata of survival.(DANCE MATTERS)(Mata Hari)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...there are solos to the music of Massenet, Debussy, and Satie in the manner of Loie Fuller, Rita Sacchetto, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Grete Wiesenthal, and other early modern dancers who might have served Mata Hari as models. There's also...
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Another Century, Another Show.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...or that in 14 years' time the now 13-year-old Mary Wigman would make her debut recital after study with Emile Jaques-Dalcroze and Rudolf von Laban? History is the future seen through the wrong end of the telescope, and one view of history...
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Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Emile Jaques-Dalcroze Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) was a Swiss teacher and composer known for developing eurhythmics, an approach to music education involving whole body movement. Born July 6, 1865, Emile-Henri Jaques was the...
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Music Education
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...work of three key figures: Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865 – 1950...system) into music education. Dalcroze's ideas influenced Orff who...The Knickerbocker Press. Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile. 1967, 1921. Rhythm Music...
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Mary Wigman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...she attended a dance performance by students of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, originator of the system of musical instruction...the objections of her parents, Wigman enrolled in Jaques-Dalcroze's school in Dresden-Hellerau in 1911. The system...
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eurhythmics
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
eurhythmics was the name given by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950), a Swiss composer and teacher of music, to his system of training that linked musical rhythm with movements...
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