The Movement and Dance Committee of the IOSFS Board will be offering short online sessions over the coming year (2025) that provide an opportunity for Orff-Schulwerk practitioners to engage with a mindful movement and dance practice within an elemental music and movement/dance context. 

 

We will facilitate a process of expanding the range of movement possibilities and expression in both mind and body, guiding participants towards a strong sense of physical presence, confidence, and authenticity. Movement elements of space, time, weight, and flow will be explored individually, in partners, and in small group work. 

 

Our aim is that each person will be encouraged to become more active in incorporating the different forms of movement and dance (improvisation, folk/cultural and historical) as well as compositional/choreographic tasks into their own classes.

 

Each session segment or ‘mini-course’ consists of three-to-four meetings, and it is recommended that you attend each of them. 

To attend, please register under this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxPudZ2wc5kJUhTUvASmlD7-AmKYmXCRZaMUxYuVJ-6bkUgQ/viewform?usp=header_.

 

The cost is: pay what you can. The proceeds support the IOSFS.

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Payment can be made

1. By bank transfer (see: https://www.orff-schulwerk-forum-salzburg.org/)

or 

1. via Paypal (Shirley Salmon: sdaysalmon@gmail.com)

In both cases, please mark your payment ‘Music and Dance Basics’.

 

 

SESSION SEGMENT #1:  Starting with Improvisation!

We will start with simple examples that require no previous dance experience, covering the range from serious to spirited, from sensory experiences to structured explorations and improvisations. Themes will be based on movement concepts and kinesthetic impulses, musical, rhythmic, texts or visual inspirations.  The moment itself is emphasized, for there we create our own choices and take our own chances! 

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• Saturday, April 12th, 2025, CET 3:00pm-4:15pm /Barbara Haselbach & the M/D committee

  • Short introduction 

  • First experiences through explorations: the hands

  • Reflections on perceptions and reactions

  • Improvisations and Observations

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• Saturday, April 26th, 2025, CET 3:00pm-4:15pm /Christa Coogan & the M/D committee

  • Presence/posture/energy/embodiment

  • Brief introduction to Laban’s ideas within educational dance approaches

  • Movement games using these ideas

  • Improvisations with texts/with music

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• Saturday, May 10th, 2025, CET 3:00pm-4:30pm /Dafne Michellepis & the M/D committee

  • Recap of previous meetings, movement explorations

  • Body dialogues: communication between hands and feet

  • Question and Answer games: movement and sound connections, rhythm and space

  • Small group improvisations

  • Discussion/Reflections/Questions about the perception of the practice

 

SESSION SEGMENT #2:  Steps, steps, steps: Traditional  and cultural/folk dances!

Description to be announced; dates to be announced; Session Segment begins in September 2025.

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Please contact us if you have any questions. (info.iosfs@gmail.com)