AMIS Music Educators’ Conference/Conferencia de Educadores Musicales – Bogotá 2025
Join us for the first-ever AMIS Music Educators’ Conference in Latin America! This bilingual event will bring music educators together for two days of learning, sharing, and connection.
¡Únase a nosotros para la primera conferencia de AMIS en América Latina! Este evento bilingüe reunirá a educadores musicales durante dos días de aprendizaje, intercambio y conexión.
Please visit https://amis-online.org/page/25-mec-bogota for more information
Hourly Schedule
Friday 11/15
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Approaching Sight-Singing through Dalcroze Eurhythmics
- Participants will use Dalcroze techniques to better decode sight-singing. Appropriate for upper elementary, middle- and high-school choral teachers.
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Speakers:
Dr. David Frego, Dr. Marla Butke
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Creating a Movement Vocabulary Using Dalcroze Eurhythmics
- Participants will develop a vocabulary appropriate purposeful movement in the elementary general music teachers.
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Speakers:
Dr. David Frego, Dr. Marla Butke
Saturday 11/16
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Enhancing Musical Expression in the Choral Classroom through Dalcroze Eurhythmics
- This session will focus on the expressive qualities of music and how they can be embodied by the students to transform their musical experiences.
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Speakers:
Dr. David Frego, Dr. Marla Butke
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- "Wicked" Dalcroze Eurhythmics
- This session will feature Dalcroze Eurhythmics activities set to the music from the movie, "Wicked" by Stephen Schwartz. Dalcroze Eurhythmics uses the body as the first instrument and engages students in purposeful movement. Music concepts to be taught from the score include steady beat, subdivision, changing meter, rests, and expression. As students physicalize music concepts, a deeper understanding of those concepts is created. The connection of pop culture serves as a motivational tool in musical learning. The target audience of this session is for music teachers of 3rd-12th grades.
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Speakers:
Dr. David Frego, Dr. Marla Butke
Speakers
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Dr. Marla ButkeOtterbein University - Retired
Marla Butke, Ph.D., recently retired from Otterbein University where she directed the Women’s Chorale and taught General Music and Choral Methods, holds degrees from Miami University, Wright State University and The Ohio State University. She is a Master Teaching Artist with the American Eurhythmics Society and serves as the President of the Board of AES. Dr. Butke regularly presents Dalcroze Eurhythmics workshops throughout the United States and internationally, including presentations in Spain, China, and England, and for the American Choral Directors Association National and Central/North Central Regional Conferences, as well as other national and state music education conferences. Dr. Butke and co-author, Dr. David Frego, have written two books, Meaningful Movement: A Music Teacher’s Guide to Dalcroze Eurhythmics, published by Music is Elementary and Dalcroze Eurhythmics in the Choral Classroom published by the Hal Leonard Corporation.
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Dr. David FregoDirector and Professor - Penn State University
David Frego is the Director of the Penn State University School of Music and past-president of the American Eurhythmics Society. He regularly presents workshops on Dalcroze Eurhythmics throughout the globe. While teacher training is a major part of Dr. Frego’s work, he also studies the effect of eurhythmics on adults affected by post-traumatic stress. David has published books, book chapters, DVDs and articles in music education journals and journals for arts medicine.
