ICDS6: Keynote Beatriz Ilari & Performance Marlies Mujizers/John Habron-James

ICDS6: Ecologies of practice in music and movement (02 - 05 August 2023, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA). Content: 0:00 - 01:53 - Introduction, Dr Luc Nijs, Scientific Committee Member 01:54 - 42:36 - PhD Beatriz Ilari, Keynote Speaker (Associate Professor of Music Teaching and Learning at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles) 42:37 - 55:45 - Marlies Mujizers & John Habron-James Performance PhD Beatriz Ilari - "The Resounding Time Machine: Music, Togetherness and Well-being" Scholars in multiple fields—from musicology, education and sociology to the neurosciences, music therapy, and evolutionary psychology have offered multiple accounts on the role of music in social life and in human well-being. Unsurprisingly most of these works have focused on the experiences of adults, not children and adolescents. Studying the role of music in the lives of children and adolescents brings up additional complexities. This includes the adoption of methodologies and theoretical frameworks that can assist with explaining the emergence, construction and development of specific skills like singing, being together in time, improvising, and performing, to name a few. Implications for music education, human development and Dalcroze studies will be presented. Marlies Mujizers & John Habron-James - "There is only sea between us" Part I (I Tima, by Lars Danielsson) Part II (Dance for me Wallis, by Abel Korzeniowski) Part III (Oblivion, by Astor Piazzolla, performed by Carel Kraayenhof and Su-a Lee) Choreography: Marlies Muijzers & John Habron-James Dance coach and dramaturge: Anneloes van Schuppen What do our bodies offer us? How do they express and communicate? What are our possibilities and limitations, and how do they promote creativity? What assumptions do we have to overcome to release our potential? This dance grows out of a collaborative autoethnography about Marlies’s story of pain, acceptance, and resilience, especially in relation to her experiences of music-making (cello teaching and performance) and Dalcroze training and teaching. After presenting a paper at ICDS5 and having drafted a journal article together, Marlies turned her narrative into dance and published it on YouTube. To complete the process, we decided to explore our research dialogue in movement. In this performance, our identities, personalities, and stories become our material. Wordlessly, we reveal the power of our collaboration, as we observe, listen, encounter, explore, absorb, play... Our dialogue began with an email in 2019. It developed into an online collaboration and this became a friendship. It weathered the disruptions of a pandemic and illness, and brought us together in person for the first time three and a half years later. Initially, our dialogue was verbal and via the digital. Now, we dance it. Now, we touch.