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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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Dale Bennett's fifth graders don soft white slippers and head off to participate in one of the more remarkable of these activities, eurythmy (yu-rith-me).
There are extensive workshops, and in every school the performance of eurythmy - a kind of dance - has a central role, not only as a discipline to link mind and body, but also as an exchange of communication between performer and audience.
Eurythmy, an art form that combines movement and music in an organic relationship, grew out of his approach to music and the body.
 
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