RHYTHMICS / MUSIC & MOVEMENT

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Artist interview with Emilie Groz
Lecture by Hanne Pilgrim
Lecture by Franziska Meyer
Lecture by John Habron-James
Expert exchange "Rhythmik:collect"

For interested parties, practitioners and students.

Program
10:00 a.m. Welcome
10:10 a.m. Artist interview with Emilie (Milly) Groz (mdw, Vienna, AT)
10:40 a.m. Lecture by Hanne Pilgrim (MH Trossingen, DE)
11:10 a.m. Coffee break
11:20 h Lecture by Franziska Meyer (FH Bern, CH)
11:50 h Lecture by John Habron-James (RNCM, Manchester, UK)
12:20 h Expert exchange "Rhythmik:collect"
13:00 h End

Artist interview
10:10 a.m. Emilie (Milly) Groz is a guest in conversation with Prof. Elisabeth Pelz about her artistic work as a pianist, performer and rhythmist.

Lecture
10:40 Hanne Pilgrim (Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, DE)
"Mapping the eurythmics practitioner's space"

In her lecture, Hanne Pilgrim gives insights into case studies, experiments and artistic products that have emerged from the artistic research project 'Atlas glatter Räume' (funded by the Austrian Science Fund, 2021 - 2025). In this project, she researched the space that surrounds, occupies, creates and shapes the performer as a rhythmic artist in close collaboration with colleagues from the disciplines of dance, choral conducting, original sound (film) and complexity science. In addition to the focus on the rhythmic-specific research processes, a "co-creation" methodology is also presented, which the team of artistic researchers developed together. As a conceptual tool, this structures artistic collaboration processes into the phases of 'zero space', experiment, notation, collision, composition and performance.

Lecture
11:20 Franziska Meyer (Bern University of Applied Sciences, CH)
"Composed music in the classroom with children. How we can open the doors for a lively, contemporary interpretation and realization in movement."

In this lecture, various approaches and approaches to design and choreography in relation to composed music will be examined. The main question is: What happens between music and movement?

Focus: To stimulate a fascination with composed music and to generate ideas for teaching children. To awaken the joy and courage to create choreography.

Lecture (in English)
11:50 a.m. John Habron-James (Northern Royal College of Music, Manchester, UK)
"What does qualitative research offer to Rhythmics practitioners? What do Rhythmics practitioners bring to qualitative research?"

This presentation briefly introduces qualitative research methodology, its common characteristics, and some widely used approaches. After considering examples of qualitative research within Dalcroze studies, I will reflect on what has been achieved to date and share thoughts on potential future directions. We will also think together about the attributes of the Rhythmics practitioner and how these may provide a solid foundation for undertaking qualitative research.

Persons

Emilie Groz
Milly (Emilie) Groz is a pianist, rhythmicist and performer based in Vienna. Her projects range from free improvisation to free jazz and performance and are aimed at people of all ages. With her solo project "Millycent", she combines mumble rap, groove and feminist reinterpretations of pop standards. In addition to her work as a freelance musician, she teaches improvisation at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna - mdw, where she heads the Department of Music and Movement Pedagogy/Rhythmics. She studied music and movement pedagogy/rhythmics at the mdw and piano (jazz and improvisation) at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz.
www.millygroz.com

Hanne Pilgrim
Hanne Pilgrim studied rhythmics with Gisela Schwartz and piano with Linde Großmann at the Berlin University of the Arts. She has taught at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Franz Liszt Hochschule Weimar, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
and the Rostock University of Music and Drama. She currently teaches in the Music and Movement course at the Trossingen University of Music. As 'Principal Investigator', Hanne Pilgrim led the artistic research project 'Atlas of Smooth Spaces', funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), from 2021 to 2025. She collaborated in teaching and research within the strategic partnership "Eurhythmics in Education and Artistic Practice" (Erasmus+) with colleagues from Sweden, Poland, Germany and Austria. Hanne Pilgrim is a candidate for the Diplôme Supérieur of the Jaques-Dalcroze Method at the IJD in Geneva.

Franziska Meyer
is active as a dancer, choreographer and rhythmist in various interdisciplinary and music-mediating projects. In addition to her own performances, she has been a lecturer for dance, rhythm and stage projects at the universities of Bern and Lucerne since 2002. Since 2019 teacher for rhythmics at the Chladek - Dance Education. Personal fields of research: Intersections of performance and pedagogy in the context of stage projects for and with children, and the interplay of body - voice - stage in opera and musical theater.

John Habron-James
John Habron-James is Professor in Music at the Royal Northern College of Music, UK, where he supervises master's and doctoral projects. His research flows between the fields of music education and music therapy, where he has interests in histories of music, movement and health, lived experiences and inclusion. Along with Johanna Laakkonen and Selma Landen Odom, John co-edited Navigating landscapes of Dalcroze practice: Histories of music and movement (Boydell & Brewer, 2025). John was Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (2013-23) and is currently Extraordinary Professor in the ViAMUS research focus area, North-West University, South Africa.

Eintritt frei

Participation is free of charge. The symposium will take place via Zoom.
Registration at fachtag.rhythmik@hfmt-hamburg.de

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Organization: Prof. Elisabeth Pelz, Alexander Riedmüller-Rezzani

With the kind support of the Hamburg Open Online University - HOOU.