This episode is incredibly special for me. Monica Dale has been an influential person in my life since I was little and I've always admired her. She is my not only my aunt, but also my first Dalcroze instructor. I learned new information about her background in music and dance and I hope you find her work as inspiring and educational as I do.
Monica Dale grew up on the campus of Connecticut College, when it was the epicenter for modern dance as host of the American Dance Festival. As a child, she had experimental creative dance classes and was surrounded with modern art and music. She studied dance at Connecticut College and at the suggestion of faculty, left college for New York City where she trained at the Joffrey, Martha Graham, and Cunningham Schools. She later returned to Connecticut and majored in music. She pursued Dalcroze Studies to bridge music and dance, earning her certificate, license, and Master of Music in Piano Performance from Ithaca College.
She has worked professionally as a dancer, pianist, choreographer, and teacher of pre-school through professional levels. After developing an original curriculum merging dance, music, and language, Monica founded Musikinesis and has published six books including the three-volume Eurythmics for Young Children and an iBook of illustrated dance stories with original music.
As a clinician, she has presented sessions at national conferences of MENC (now known as NAFME), MTNA, ACDA, ECMMA, AOSA, NDEO, and has taught for decades at Kennedy Center's Summer Music Institute and Eastman School of Music's Summer Session. She teaches movement to music students at Peabody Conservatory, music to dance students at the University of Maryland, and both to young children in inner-city Baltimore through an El Sistema-modeled program of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She lives in Ellicott City, Maryland with her husband Michael and loves finding obscure music on IMSLP, sharing ideas on her blog, and sharing sofa space with her dogs.
Website: www.musikinesis.com
She has worked professionally as a dancer, pianist, choreographer, and teacher of pre-school through professional levels. After developing an original curriculum merging dance, music, and language, Monica founded Musikinesis and has published six books including the three-volume Eurythmics for Young Children and an iBook of illustrated dance stories with original music.
As a clinician, she has presented sessions at national conferences of MENC (now known as NAFME), MTNA, ACDA, ECMMA, AOSA, NDEO, and has taught for decades at Kennedy Center's Summer Music Institute and Eastman School of Music's Summer Session. She teaches movement to music students at Peabody Conservatory, music to dance students at the University of Maryland, and both to young children in inner-city Baltimore through an El Sistema-modeled program of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She lives in Ellicott City, Maryland with her husband Michael and loves finding obscure music on IMSLP, sharing ideas on her blog, and sharing sofa space with her dogs.
Website: www.musikinesis.com
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