international centre of documentation
The Documentation Centre of the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze provides students and researchers alike with numerous resources relating to Dalcroze Eurhythmics and its history, to the heritage of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, and to related cultural and scientific fields.
a wealth of documentary material
Its archives attract numerous specialists, doctoral students, and visitors from all over the world every year.
Created in 1985, with the collaboration of Gabriel Jaques-Dalcroze, founder’s son, the International Documentation Centre (CID) provides a wealth of documentary material.
An “International Documentation Centre of the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze” fund, created in January 2011, makes documents that are part of its heritage available to a large public and contributes to its influence. It is funded through the generosity of various institutions or foundations.
The CID offers for consultation:
- the documentary resources used by E. Jaques-Dalcroze
- the archives of the review Le Rythme
- articles written by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
- press clippings
- correspondence, copies of letters from and to Jaques-Dalcroze
- show programs, conferences, and demonstrations
- documents concerning Dalcroze Eurhythmics around the world …
- For conservation reasons, consultation of the archives must be authorised by management and the documents can only be viewed on site.
other resources
Other archives, scores and manuscripts by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze are available for consultation at the Geneva Library Bibliothèque de Genève (fonds Emile Jaques-Dalcroze).
The collection of photographs – part of which is digitised, is now located at the Geneva Iconography Centre Centre d’Iconographie genevoise (keywords: rythmique, Jaques-Dalcroze, Hellerau, etc.).
handwritten notebooks by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
Emile Jaques-Dalcroze’s Notebooks were donated to the Geneva Library in 2014, in order to best guarantee their conservation.
They have been fully digitised. Of particular interest are the first volume dating from 1908, and volume 73, dating from 1936 to 1938 – which discusses “Plastique animée”.
Other digitised volumes can be made available to you upon request. Do not hesitate to contact the librarian.
writings on the Jaques-Dalcroze method
To facilitate the distribution of writings on the Jaques-Dalcroze method, the documentation centre now offers a certain number of texts online:
online texts
- Trois conférences / Marie-Laure Bachmann (pdf)
- Les fondements théoriques de la rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze à l’appui de l’identité du rythmicien / Marie-Laure Bachmann (pdf)
- Enseigner la rythmique dans un conservatoire (pdf)
- L’apport de la rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze à la pratique instrumentale / Anne-Thérèse Biéri (pdf)
- La rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze dans les écoles primaires genevoises : une approche didactique (thèse de doctorat)/ Mary Brice
- Vers une application des principes dalcroziens à l’enseignement du piano / Silvia Del Bianco (pdf)
- Rythmique et arts de la scène / Irène Hausammann (pdf)
- La rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze au service du chef de chœur / Pascale Martinet (pdf)
- Initiation au piano par l’improvisation (I.P.I.) / Sylvie Morgenegg (pdf)
- L’éducation corporelle dans l’enseignement de la Rythmique : parallèles entre les méthodes d’Emile Jaques‐Dalcroze et de Rudolf Laban / Hélène Nicolet (pdf)
- Et caetera, les débuts de l’improvisation au piano / Dominique Porte (pdf)
archive documents on the TSR
Mouvements journal archives
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Soazig Mercier, head librarian
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