2024-2025 Monthly Meetings and Programs ( updated: 8/30/2024)
Date: Friday, September 13, 2024 at 10 am
Location: Millhopper Branch / Alachua County Library District, Room A
Program: Potluck party : please bring one plate to share for our brunch
Location: Millhopper Branch / Alachua County Library District, Room A
Program: Potluck party : please bring one plate to share for our brunch
- Introduction:
- introducing the GMTA Executive Board
- nomination of the GMTA Committee
- Student activities
- Discussion: Free discussion regarding pedagogical issues, and management of studio
Date: Friday, October 11, 10 am
Location: Zoom
Presenter: Kelly Rooney
Program: Management and Preparation for the Student Day
Long time the Student Day’s Chairperson, Kelly Rooney will share the operations of running the Student Day event. Please join us to learn more about this student opportunity and how we, as teachers, can support its efforts.
Location: Zoom
Presenter: Kelly Rooney
Program: Management and Preparation for the Student Day
Long time the Student Day’s Chairperson, Kelly Rooney will share the operations of running the Student Day event. Please join us to learn more about this student opportunity and how we, as teachers, can support its efforts.
GMTA Special Meeting
Date: Saturday, December 7, 11:00am to 1:00pm
GMTA members preferably be there at around 10:30am to help with preparations.
Location: UF School of Music Building (Room 121) Parking is in garage #4
Program: Potluck lunch with UF music major students
We would like to invite all UF music major students who have or have not been a member of GMTA (Gainesville Music Teachers Association) to our potluck lunch-style meeting at the UF music department on Saturday, December 7th!
Program:
1. Introducing current officers of GMTA
2. Introducing events that GMTA holds every year.
3. Pathways to career success as a music teacher.
4. Q&A about the organization and any concerns about your musical career in the future.
We are excited to collaborate with current experienced teachers and bright students at UF!
Date: Saturday, December 7, 11:00am to 1:00pm
GMTA members preferably be there at around 10:30am to help with preparations.
Location: UF School of Music Building (Room 121) Parking is in garage #4
Program: Potluck lunch with UF music major students
We would like to invite all UF music major students who have or have not been a member of GMTA (Gainesville Music Teachers Association) to our potluck lunch-style meeting at the UF music department on Saturday, December 7th!
Program:
1. Introducing current officers of GMTA
2. Introducing events that GMTA holds every year.
3. Pathways to career success as a music teacher.
4. Q&A about the organization and any concerns about your musical career in the future.
We are excited to collaborate with current experienced teachers and bright students at UF!
Date: Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10 am （In progress)
Location: TBA
Presenter: Elizabeth Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson, BFA, MFA, M.AmSAT, GL-CMA, RSME/RSMT, RYT-200 is a performer, choreographer, educator, dual certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT and ATI), Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, and Registered Yoga Teacher. As a career academic, her research integrates somatic, developmental, intersectional feminist, integral, and trauma perspectives in her pedagogies and practices. Johnson has taught and presented extensively in national and international venues on Alexander Technique and Dart Procedures applications in Dance/Movement and Yoga and how Alexander Technique (AT) principles complement or challenge other somatic and educational frameworks. She has co-authored/authored three book chapters featuring applied AT and developmental movement, the most recent in (Re): Claiming Ballet (Editor: Adesola Akinleye). A new co-authored book with Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and Luc Vanier, Moving Into Skill: A Framework for Integration, is forthcoming in 2025 (University of Illinois Press). Johnson regularly teaches as a guest in AT teacher training courses in
Salt Lake City, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, and Rio de Janeiro Brazil. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida.
Program: The Alexander Technique for Instrumentalists (Tentative Title)
The Alexander technique is a method of rediscovering natural balance and poise through thinking in activity. It is not an exercise regime. All our movements should be gentle, using only the appropriate amount of muscular energy. Local Alexander Technique instructor Elizabeth will present how we can better manage our bodies.
Location: TBA
Presenter: Elizabeth Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson, BFA, MFA, M.AmSAT, GL-CMA, RSME/RSMT, RYT-200 is a performer, choreographer, educator, dual certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT and ATI), Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, and Registered Yoga Teacher. As a career academic, her research integrates somatic, developmental, intersectional feminist, integral, and trauma perspectives in her pedagogies and practices. Johnson has taught and presented extensively in national and international venues on Alexander Technique and Dart Procedures applications in Dance/Movement and Yoga and how Alexander Technique (AT) principles complement or challenge other somatic and educational frameworks. She has co-authored/authored three book chapters featuring applied AT and developmental movement, the most recent in (Re): Claiming Ballet (Editor: Adesola Akinleye). A new co-authored book with Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and Luc Vanier, Moving Into Skill: A Framework for Integration, is forthcoming in 2025 (University of Illinois Press). Johnson regularly teaches as a guest in AT teacher training courses in
Salt Lake City, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, and Rio de Janeiro Brazil. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida.
Program: The Alexander Technique for Instrumentalists (Tentative Title)
The Alexander technique is a method of rediscovering natural balance and poise through thinking in activity. It is not an exercise regime. All our movements should be gentle, using only the appropriate amount of muscular energy. Local Alexander Technique instructor Elizabeth will present how we can better manage our bodies.
Date: Friday, April 4, 2025 at 10am
Location: Academy of Music , 1128 NW 13th St, Gainesville, FL
Location: Academy of Music , 1128 NW 13th St, Gainesville, FL