American Choral Directors Association
The mission of ACDA is to inspire excellence and nurture lifelong involvement in choral music for everyone through education, performance, composition and advocacy.
This session will cite recent research into how movement helps people learn and retain ideas, concepts, and sounds. The clinician will be demonstrate movement of the singers’ bodies in vocalizes, as they rehearse apiece, and as they perform music, and move the singers into different positions both on and off the risers. Subtle movements—such as […]
Reno NV.This session engages participants in interactive circles to explore ensemble voice building techniques, choral rehearsal strategies and kinesthetic awareness activities to motivate singers of all ages. Participants will experience how the innovative use of gesture, movement in place and movement in space increase their physiological connection to singing, encourages their full-bodied awareness of musical elements, […]
Dallas, TXTai Chi gives us practice opening the pathways between mind and body, intention and movement, to guide us towards conducting from our deepest intuition. When the distraction of your conscious self is lifted like a veil between thought and gesture, conducting becomes an act of artistic truth. In this session, participants will follow a Tai […]
Providence, RIThis session will demonstrate how the use of eurythmics in the choral rehearsal can enhance music performance. Specifically, it will show how movement can be used (1) to assist with rhythmic accuracy; (2) to achieve better ensemble singing; (3) to energize music that moves slowly; and (4) to shape melodic lines and assist with proper […]
Providence, RIThis session will focus on the musical, emotional, and expressive development of choral singers through the integration of the vocal/physical connection in rehearsal and performance. The session will include demonstration and discussion of how building “body-voices” allows singers to feel, express, and understand the deep meaning in the music they are singing. Through the gentle […]
Madison, WI
