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Practice of coordinated bodily movement as an aid to musical development. It was founded about 1900 by the Swiss musician Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, professor of harmony at the Geneva conservatoire. He devised a series of ‘gesture’ songs, to be sung simultaneously with certain bodily actions.



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The Fair Oaks Eurythmy troupe from Sacramento will give three performances of the Japanese folk tale, "The Crane Wife," and kindergarten teachers will present fairy tale puppet shows.
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This tradition originated with the Greeks and flourished ever since, as Matila Ghyka's classic book The Geometry of Art and Life (1946) makes clean Ghyka's book also reminds us that such classical principles as the Golden Section and eurythmy were intended to apply to all forms of art, music being but one special case.
 
 
 
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