Workshops
Saturday, 1:45 PM, L115 |
Johannes Hatfield: Applying Acceptance Training Across Disciplines: From Theory to Application Canceled |
Norwegian Academy of Music, Norway |
Why do some athletes and performing artists seem to be totally absorbed and unaffected by anything but their present performance while others choke? Learn to cope with distractions and become more grounded through the workshop on acceptance training.
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Friday, 13:45 PM, Carl Orff Auditorium |
Frank Heuser1 & Gena Greher2: Mobil Devices and Participatory Collaborative Musical Play |
1University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) 2University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA |
This interactive workshop will explore how Digital Mobile Devices can be used to encourage musical collaboration and nurture creative capacities in ways that can be adapted to different learning environments. Using apps that are available on smart phones and tablets, small groups of participants will work together to create, record and share songs. The goal of the workshop is for attendees to experience how participatory learning in real-time might enhance music learning opportunities, engage a wide variety of learners, foster critical thinking skills, and nurture creative abilities and musical Frank Heuser is Professor of Music Education at UCLA where he teaches courses in music education and supervises student teachers. His research focuses on developing ways to improve music pedagogy. He has used electromyography to investigate tone commencement problems in brass players, developed strategies to improve pre-service music teacher education, and is currently applying the principles of information design to improve teaching materials employed in music instruction. He is a guest conductor and clinician for public school ensembles and has served on a variety of arts education committees for the State of California as well as on evaluation panels for the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Saturday, 8:30 AM, L11 |
Katharina Loibner: TaKeTiNa – Rhythm as a Masterful Tool for Personal Growth |
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria |
TaKeTiNa is a musical group process which enables you to become one with the rhythmic flow. Thinking subsides as your body takes over, and you might be surprised to find yourself blissfully immersed in complex polyrhythms with voice, steps, and claps. Any obstacles you face in this process are mirrors of hindering patterns in your life. Once transformed in rhythm, they will dissolve in your life as well.
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Saturday, 8:30 AM, L115 |
Horst Hildebrandt & Oliver Margulies: Creative Ergonomic Solutions for Musicians – Scientifically Based Examples from the Zurich Centre for Musicians Hands |
Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland |
In this workshop, a practical repertoire of biomechanical tests and ergonomic solutions for the music teacher’s pedagogical tool-kit is demonstrated. Mobility tests from the Pragmatic Hand Evaluation(PHE) based on Wagner help to identify hidden limiting biomechanical and muscular factors, which should be addressed in training contexts when choosing instrument position and ergonomic equipment.
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Saturday, 1:45 PM, Carl Orff Auditorium |
Klaus Rom: hoW TO bE DifFerENt aND wHY |
Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria |
In every situation that has a competitive character, whether there is a ranking or it’s about getting access to limited resources, we find that winners are different. The winner of a bicycle race can ride his bike like all the other, races down the track, can steer in curves, and breaks only if it’s really necessary. But in one case he’s different: he was faster than all the others! So if you want to win, or at least be outstanding, you have to be different! In the theoretical part of my workshop, I will provide a brief and (hopelessly incomplete but) very interesting overview over the scientific background of success and its relationship to being different. In the second part, we will transfer these ideas into practical situations.
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Saturday, 1:45 PM, L11 |
Claudia Spahn & Anna Immerz: Listening to Research: Taking Body Work into Musicians' Daily Practice |
University of Music Freiburg, Germany |
In this workshop, we will present a pedagogical concept – combined with practical examples – which will support musicians to better integrate learned body techniques for injury prevention into daily practice with their instrument or voice. In addition, participants will have a chance to experience “guided reflection” during the session.
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Friday, 12:45 PM, L115 |
László Stachó: Mindfulness and the Practice Methodology |
Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary |
This workshop allows performers and singers to focus on building their attentional skills using exercises of the Practice Methodology (PM). The PM toolkit enables the musician to ‘let go’ in the moment while performing, to be emotionally deeply engaged with music with full concentration, but also to take expressive risks and to deal with mistakes while performing. The PM saves musicians considerable practice time, and helps to reduce stage fright.
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Friday, 12:45 PM, L11 |
Kathryn Woodard: Understanding and Accessing the Body Map When Training Movement |
University of Pennsylvania, USA |
Understanding the role and function of internal representation – or the ‘Body Map’ that governs movement – is an essential part of training the complex movement patterns of performing artists and athletes. This workshop will address basic questions concerning the Body Map: What is it? How does it function? Why is it important for performers? It will continue with a series of demonstrations that invite participants to explore their own maps.
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