Rytmik vid högre dansutbildningar - En studie baserad på fyra personers erfarenheter av rytmik- och musikundervisning vid högre dansutbildningar

Sammanfattning: Title: Eurhythmics at professionaldance educations. A study based on four persons' experiences of eurhythmics and music education at professional dance educations. This qualitative study examines dance students' needs for music education at professional dance educations. The study's empirical work is based primarily on interviews with four informants with longterm professional experience of dance in various fields. In this study the informants’ experiences in dance and music and their answers to if eurhythmics as a music education is needed or not at professional dance educations, is the fundament for the results. The study presents eurhythmics as music teaching method in short, from a historical as well as practical perspective. Another subject that is processed is how music education is executed today, which is investigated by documents from various courses from professional dance educations in Sweden. The conclusion is in short that dance students at professional education do not need eurhythmics to become good dancers. There are elements that are processed in eurhythmics that may be well suited in the dance students' music education, but it takes more than a master in eurhythmics education to satisfy the needs dance students have, according to this study. The results of this study clearly show that music education is very important for dance students. The music education should be adapted to dance as an art form and executed with an awareness of its artistic development, and based on the close relationship between dance and music.