
LEADING MÚSICA DO CÍRCULO
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LEADING MÚSICA DO CÍRCULO is a program for musicians and students that want to lead collaborative and collective musical practices based on voice, body, play, improvisation and human relations, finding their own particular way of leading the circle.
This course offers you the opportunity to:
Have tools that allow you to create music with any group of people in the most different contexts.
Develop your relationship with your musicality through improvisation, the incorporation of music in your body and a constantly deeper listening of yourself, the other and the whole.
Expand your vision on music and human relations, understanding music as a wide-ranging and transformative phenomena of the human experience, an experience that always happens in relationship.
Get to know techniques, activities and approaches that can be applied both in musical contexts and in groups of "non-musicians".
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OVERVIEW OF THE COURSE
MODULES
3 online modules + 1 in-person immersive module
PRACTICE GROUP
From module II onward it is important for participants to have an in-person practice group (weekly or bi-weekly) to put in practice the activities shared throughout the course.
CONTENT
The course has extensive material in PDF on the subjects discussed, also videos with homework for the week, feedback moments for the participants, suggestions for more advanced studies and much more.
But the planning can also change since the course is alive and based on the direct relation with people, following the same principles of listening, flexibility and fluidity that orient our musical gatherings.
DATES
The dates scheduled for the next modules will always be confirmed on the end of the previous module.
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GENERAL PROGRAMMING

MODULE I
“The 8 elements”
CONTENTS
Focus on the experience and understanding of the 8 elements of Música do Círculo:
Contact
Body Music
Improvisation
Play
Movement
Non-Verbal Communication
Flow
Circle
TIME
Meetings will happen on fridays from 2 PM to 4:30 PM (Brazilian Time), but will be recorded and available online for you to watch later.
DATES
February: 11 - 18 - 25
March: 4 - 11 - 18 - 25
April: 1 - 8
INVESTMENT
400 dollars paid through Paypal.
MODULE II
“The 8 inspirational games"
CONTENTS
Focus on play
8 inspirational games
Basic practice and variations
From imitation to free creation
Leading-Conducting-Reproducing
Non-Verbal Communication
Movement
This module will be better taken advantage of by those who can hold a weekly or bi-weekly practice group to experience leading the activities in-person.
TIME
Meetings will happen on fridays from 2 PM to 4:30 PM (Brazilian Time), but will be recorded and available online for you to watch later.
DATES
April: 22 - 29
May: 6 - 13 - 20 - 27
June: 3 - 10 - 17
INVESTMENT
400 dollars paid through Paypal.

MODULE III
“Building the flow”
CONTENTS
Focus on flow
Arrival-Development-Closure
Contact
Transitions
Principle of alternation
This module will be better taken advantage of by those who can hold a weekly or bi-weekly practice group to experience leading the activities in-person.
TIME
Meetings will happen on fridays from 2 PM to 4:30 PM (Brazilian Time), but will be recorded and available online for you to watch later.
DATES
September: 2 - 9 - 16 - 23 - 30
October: 7 - 14 - 21 - 28
INVESTMENT
400 dollars paid through Paypal.

MODULE IV
“Practical deepening”
CONTENTS
Focus on the circle
Deepening the 8 elements
Improvising structure
Developing the relations
IN-PERSON IMMERSION
A week in Brazil.
DATES
Prediction:
January 16 to 21 / 2023
INVESTMENT
400 dollars paid through Paypal.
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FACILITATORS

ZUZA GONÇALVES
Musician and teaching artist concentrating particularly in vocal music and body percussion, has explored alternative ways in collective music making throughout the last 20 years. He is and educator at Sesc Vila Mariana's Music Center and is part of the faculty at Bobby McFerrin's Circlesongs Workshop at the Omega Institute in New York.

RONALDO CRISPIM
Teaching artist and songwriter, has dedicated himself professionally to body percussion since 2007. He was a part of Fernando Barba's study group (creator of Barbatuques) and for 7 years was responsible for the Fritos body music group. He has a degree in Pedagogy of Cooperation and in the Gaia Education program of regenerative culture.