About the Dalcroze School of Music & Movement
The Dalcroze School of Music and Movement (DSM) educates musicians, dancers, senior citizens, and educators using la Méthode Jaques-Dalcroze. This dynamic, engaging, and creative method offers an experiential way of knowing music through purposeful movement and discovery-based learning. With music as the teacher in the classroom, we inspire our students through active listening, the spirit of play, social interaction, and improvisation.
Originating as The Dalcroze School of the Rockies in 2010, we cater to students from as young as 4 all the way up to professionals who include conductors, university professors, undergraduate and graduate students, private studio instructors, public school teachers, amateur musicians, and dancers. Classes are offered in Dallas, Texas; additionally, several institutions have adopted the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement curriculum, including DePaul University in Chicago, Baldwin-Wallace University in Cleveland, My Musical Upbringing in Toronto (Canada), and others in Oregon, Boston, Salt Lake City, and Louisville. With highly-trained, internationally renowned faculty, the work Émile Jaques-Dalcroze began in the 1900s is vibrant as ever at the DSR.
As the only License-granting institution west of Pittsburgh authorized by le Collège de l'Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland, the DSM offers dynamic learning and music-making to those in Dallas, but also virtually. We have students from 15 different countries on four continents! As an accredited institution of the Dalcroze Society of America, we are committed to the national Dalcroze community, as well. Our faculty serve on the Professional Development Committee of that organization and advisory board to le Fondation de l'Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, le Collège de l'Institut Jaques-Dalcroze.
