Newsletter Autumn 2015 of the Association of Great Britain and Ireland

Editorial Team: Christopher Kidman, Elisabeth Bamford, Chas Bamford [email protected] Reflections from the Council Hmm -- Refections from the Council - now there’s a thing. The Council hasn’t met since I wrote my last refections after our meeting in March at the Barbican. We are experimenting with reducing our meetings to two a year, which seems more manageable for us all and also lowers costs signifcantly. But this does not mean we are doing any less: more if anything, except that now the bulk of it happens in front of the computer or over the phone. So there is no dearth of matters to refect on!

I suppose the arranging of what we have come to call the AGM Event has been top of the agenda for us. And honestly, it’s a nerve-wracking business! What do people want as content? Will anybody respond if asked? Will anybody offer anything? But then, oh, so much response, how can we include it all CONTENTS and please everybody? -- Then, where in Stroud shall we have the Event? Oh good, we’ve booked a room at last! Council refections…………………. 1 But -- is it too big? What if nobody comes? And what if A Field in Autumn Laurie Lee……… 2 lots of people come -- will it be big enough? -- And how can we accommodate and feed people so that they can Vitaleurythmie…………………...... 3 afford it? What -- somebody’s stepped forward to take Michaelmas Wind Jonathan Reid…. 5 care of all that? Wow! -- But how can we cost the actual Speech and Language problems….. 5 workshop if we don’t know how many participants there will Mount co-workers refections……… 6 be? Oh, oh, oh, endless back-and-forthing of communications! Eurythmy Festival June 2015…….... 8 But we’ve worked Eurythmy Festival March 2016……. 8 Oh, oh, oh, endless together and just Foundation Stone research……….... 9 about kept our nerve, back-and-forthing of Eurythmy Outreach progress………10 I think. And not lost our communications Eurythmy Outreach refections…….11 enthusiasm either. When The future of eurythmy in social care..13 Michael Mehta retired as Administrator to the Council, his position was not flled. None of us could manage it and we Poems with eurythmy in mind…… 13 could fnd nobody else who could, either. But on the Coun- Style and smiles………………….... 14 cil we made the commitment to share out the work among Annemarie Ehrlich’s 90th birthday.... 15 us: have specifc areas of responsibility and consciousness, Eurythmy form by ....16 yes, but collaborate over projects. And this arranging of the Tone eurythmy therapy course…... 20 AGM Event has been a good example of that. There’ll be lots of last minute details no doubt but, after that, it’s wait Vacancies……...... 21 and see and hope something happens! Diary……………...... 21 Spring Newsletter deadline……...... 24 The other big piece of work has been the Newsletter. David Macgregor has been forced, completely fooding back and I felt so happy and newly inspired. unexpectedly, to step down as editor because of trouble with his eyes. David, I hope I can speak for On behalf of the Council: everyone when I say we THANK YOU SO MUCH Gabriella Vasas-Turnbull, Willemien Erenga, Gale Ramm, Tomie Ando and Mioara Tarzioru for the excellence with which you have fulflled this position over the last two full years. I for one could With my warm greetings, open the Newsletter and relax into the knowledge Christopher Kidman that it would read well and there would be no 01425 482416 typing errors. You are a hard act to follow indeed! But someone had to be found, and at least we had plenty of time before the next issue -- we thought. But you know how these things go -- you An Autumn follow a lead that looks like a cert, and it turns out not to be and suddenly you fnd yourself at the eleventh hour. I was already contemplating Poem for that maybe the good record of regular issues was about to be interrupted when frst Elisabeth Eurythmy Bamford agreed to help and then her husband Chas said he would help her and then I said I was Despite having moved to Stroud well over happy to be somewhere in the background and a year ago, I was astonished to discover a there we are! So warmest (and grateful) thanks few days ago that the Slad Valley (home to Elisabeth and Chas and we now have an Edi- of the poet Laurie Lee and a roundabout torial Team. And perhaps it’s a good moment car journey from where I live) is only twenty also to mention Jane Chase in Stourbridge who minutes walk away from here via stony and will continue to lay out the issues so attractively. muddy paths which climb down the steep hillside. Let’s go on doing this And even if your com- Laurie Lee’s valley is stunning. A new circular walk for one another – puter brings there follows paths that he loved. There are sharing our inspiring up David’s waymarkers where you can read one of name at the his poems connected to that place, view or work! Newsletter landscape. address, be assured that that is where you can continue to send your contributions, newsletter@ This is one of them which can be found high eurythmyassociation.uk and they will arrive on up on Swift’s Hill. From here you can see the Elisabeth and Chas’s desk. And, at the risk of be- Slad Valley spreading out below you and, ing judged unduly repetitive, I ask you: please do far beyond Stroud, the river Severn and the keep the contributions coming. Even if you don’t Welsh hills. It is a breathtaking view! want to write much, it’s so brightening simply to see pictures of eurythmy. It’s so long ago now that I So, who is going to bring this poem alive was actually able to do eurythmy myself that I through eurythmy? sometimes wonder if I ever did do it -- did all that amazing creativity, colour and movement Chas Bamford really happen? And then the other day my col- [email protected] league, Michele Keim, frst of all asked me a question about the I think the Speech exercise and then did a ‘B’ in front of me, and it all came

2 Field of Autumn

Slow moves the acid breath of noon The sheep, snail-backed against the wall, over the copper-coated hill, lifts her blind face but does not know slow from the wild crab’s bearded breast the cry her blackened tongue gives forth the palsied apples fall. is the first bleat of snow.

Like coloured smoke the day hangs fire, Each bird and stone, each roof and well, taking the village without sound; feels the gold foot of autumn pass; the vulture-headed sun lies low each spider binds with glittering snare chained to the violet ground. the splintered bones of grass.

The horse upon the rocky height Slow moves the hour that sucks our life, rolls all the valley in his eye, slow drops the late wasp from the pear, but dares not raise his foot or move the rose tree’s thread of scent draws thin - his shoulder from the fly. and snaps upon the air.

Laurie Lee (1914 – 1997)

The Slad Valley can be seen behind the poem written on the waymarker.

A further string to our The ideas behind Vitaleurythmie are frst- ly to identify the general symptoms of stress bow? - an invitation to in the wider environment. From this they have developed various signposts of behaviour that Vitaleurythmie® identify when stress is present in our own lives. An open conversation space is then created to refect As we continue to meet the challenges of on these behavioural signposts by allowing specifc fnding a way to take eurythmy forward in eurythmy exercises to act as a means to integrate Britain, I have been in discussion with Michael this changed behaviour into our normal living. Werner of Vitaleurythmie in . Michael Underpinning all the above are eurythmy and his colleague Christaine Hagemann have exercises that help to elucidate the developed a tailored method of applying specifc processes at work and provide a eurythmy exercises to combat stress. Michael has a potential means of allowing integration and background in educational and social eurythmy resolution of the particular stressors involved. and Christiane is a qualifed eurythmy therapist.

3 Courtesy of the Weleda (Germany) website.

The eurythmy exercises themselves are ground- www.vitaleurythmie.de. For those of you (like ed in the principles of the four elements: earth, me) whose German is insuffcient, a translation water, air and fre. Each of these qualities is programme (offered by several search engines) necessary in our lives but, when taken to extremes, should help you get a favour of what is offered. can become potential stressors. The eurythmy exercises help fnd a balance within each element In my discussions I learned that Michael in our physical, emotional and mental functioning. and Christiane would be willing to offer an ntroductory weekend for eurythmists and other in- It seems to me we are really struggling at terested individuals at some point in the future – present to fnd a means to link eurythmy to wider perhaps Spring 2016. We would need about 18 society in Britain. I wonder therefore if such - 20 people to participate in order to keep the a targeted approach to a recognisable costs reasonable (about £90 - £100 per person). problem in modern life may provide an This would provide suffcient income to cover their opportunity to make eurythmy better known. It ap- costs (fees and travel) and pay for a suitable peals to the wish to improve wellbeing and addresses venue. Please contact me by 4th December if you a specifc issue: stress in modern life. It takes a are interested in taking part in such an introductory hygienic euryth- weekend. If there is suffcient interest, I hope that mic approach (of we can then organise it in the frst part of next year. “Vitaleurythmie general beneft brings what is to one’s wellbe- With a fair wind, there will also be an ing) and can po- opportunity to discuss this proposal at the Eurythmy blocked into tentially be of- Association Conference/AGM in Stroud in late movement” fered by any October. from the Vitaleurythmie website eurythmist trained in the meth- Michael Mehta od to individu- [email protected] als and small groups. I believe this may be less of a leap into theunknown for a wider British Note: It would be wonderful if some public than undertaking a public eurythmy course of our readers took up the challenge of or embarking on a specifc course of eurythmy rendering Vitaleurythmie into English. therapy. Yet, if seen to work, may then open Please send your answers on a postcard the door to participation in either of the above. to [email protected] or to Michael Mehta. Can anyone do You can fnd out more by going to the website: better than Vital Eurythmy? Ed.

4 Michaelmas Wind

Last night the wind blew in September, Brusque and urgent; Wiped folly and nostalgia from the lawn And thrilled the trees.

The gean was furried and the ash boughs, Plumed and frantic, Spat black like an overturned inkwell And fayed the air.

Above the swirl, the clouds droned eastward Big with indigo, Hauling their rough-cast underbelly Down the dale

And muffing a chambered upper world Of lilt and tumult Wherein the dreams of all my sleeping neighbours Rose and purled.

And in the wind’s big fst I stood, Bleak and sleepless, And felt it scour my idle, aimless heart With wild intent.

JONATHAN REID

Sharing our approaches to Speech and Language problems An interdisciplinary day meeting held in Stroud, 30th May 2015

A group of eight professionals met in , Stroud, coming from very different back- grounds and experiences: speech and language therapists, eurythmy therapists, eurythmy teachers and anthroposophic social care practitioners.

We valued the opportunity to learn of each other’s work. It was a privilege to get a glimpse of such different approaches by sharing fascinating exercises, successes and questions relating to specifc situations. It was an opportunity to gain insights into new areas.

We learnt of situations that hinder therapeutic success. We also considered the sensitive balance 5 between neglecting a child’s needs or, in contrast, the child becoming the focus of too much attention.

Participants told of what lies at the heart of their work, for example the need: • to address anxiety through breathing-related exercises • for the person to feel secure, at peace and respected • create and work within clear boundaries

All this can be the prerequisite for freeing the speech and can help both children and adults.

Speech and language therapists shared an approach to understanding a child’s needs by highlighting the very many key areas to consider when making a diagnosis. We explored the vowels and consonants through working with eurythmy gestures and speech, and considered how the eurythmy gestures might work back and help to enliven the speech organs. We also tried some exercises Speech and Language therapists use to facilitate speech.

Meetings of professionals are extremely valuable and often do not happen enough, due to time pressure among other reasons. Today’s meeting has encouraged more cross-boundary sharing in future. This was a day of intimate sharing in a collegial atmosphere, celebrating our common aim to help people who have speech diffculties. My hope is that a new impulse or project will arise out of insight into how these different disciplines work fruitfully together. If this sparks interest in you, please contact me.

Elisabeth Bamford [email protected]

The Mount Camphill Community First year trainee co-worker eurythmy feedback

Under the umbrella of the Outreach impulse opportunity for all of them to see eurythmy which is now undoubtedly of concern and in- performances, watch the students showing their terest to us all, I thought you might like to read work each term, learn about eurythmy in the some trainee co-worker feedback about euryth- students’ education, and experience euryth- my, in view of our efforts to raise its stand- my as a therapy in a session with our eurythmy ing with young people now and in the future. therapist. Many of the volunteers give help and support in educational eurythmy sessions and The trainee co-workers at the Mount are young Eurythmy as Performing Art sessions. They also volunteers who come from all over the world for perform eurythmy for the festivals and have one year to work with us in the community. They a detailed introduction to eurythmy as a whole support our students (who have disabilities and genre, including its history and current aspects. additional learning needs) in the college and in the house communities. They engage with cultur- Please accept this contribution in the al, social and community-building processes. In spirit of collaborative encouragement the main, they arrive at the end of August and regarding our many efforts to facilitate the leave in the middle of July the following year. experiences and gifts that eurythmy can bring.

During their time with us they undertake our ac- Chrystal Hayn [email protected] credited level 2 Introduction Course on how to be a Camphill co-worker at the Mount. At certain points during the year there is an 6 experience to try eurythmy at a more challenging level. I really enjoyed the movement and also seeing the result. I can really experience and appreciate the therapeutic and educational value of eurythmy and this session made it even clearer.

3) Eurythmy is a movement that needs support from will, thinking and feeling. It trains all three and brings them together.

4) To have this moment of being your- self is not just helpful for people with special needs but is helpful for all of us. The Mount Michaelmas gathering: preparation and presentation Feedback, June 2015: 5) Since starting the exercises af- 1) Eurythmy was a bit of a mystery for ter the Easter holidays, SW began to devel- me because all I heard about it was from my op uprightness which was not there before. Waldorf friends in Germany. Basically they told me it was learning to your own name. 6) For me it was really special to have these To learn what is actually behind eurythmy was sessions because before in school it was not a really nice and I enjoyed the opportunity to good experience. I like it because we need to learn and experience eurythmy the frst time by work together. It is not necessary to speak and it myself. A student who isn’t aware of their body is good for many students as they don’t like to speak. It also gives the opportunity for those who like to speak a lot to be quiet and calm.

7) You actually move according to a pattern. We also did a lot of move- ment which was more diffcult than I thought. Eurythmy can help a young or movements can develop a lot of ability in all person to understand the idea of themselves the areas of movement and balance. After a and their surroundings and makes us stronger. whole lot of work with eurythmy, many students can do tasks which I never thought they could do 8) I did a eurythmy performance at East- (e.g. loading heavy trays into the dishwasher). er which helped broaden my understanding. Through the session I understand how com- 2) What I know about eurythmy is that it is plex and intricate eurythmy can be. It weaves always practised in a fuid way and helps you thinking feeling and will together in beauty. to get self-conscious and to fnd your own cen- tre. The session was very lively. It was a good 7 An Enchanting and Inspiring Eurythmy Festival

ast June at House in London, I participated in a eurythmy festival. It was a small yet Lenchanting space of eurythmy presented by Waldorf school students and UK eurythmy school students.

There were fairytales, music, and poems by groups or as solos, offered by people of all ages. This was inspiring. It was a special experience for me to see the Waldorf students, as their eurythmy is freshly new, personal, and expressive in a modern way. I also thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot from watching the other eurythmy students’ programmes. Being part of such an event makes me yearn for more!

Sahya Samson (Sahya graduated from Peredur Eurythmy last Summer. Ed)

Eurythmy Festival 2016! Having launched the Eurythmy Festival Initiative last June at Rudolf Steiner House, this year Kelly Wil- liams has joined Michèle Hunter and myself in the organising team.

We have had a very positive response from the children taking part. They enjoyed watching each other’s work, and could appreciate the level of skill that their contemporaries and the eurythmy stu- dents were developing and displaying. Their comments showed how attentively they watched and how awake they were to the many qualities of the contributions.

”The kids absolutely loved coming to Rudolf Steiner House and saw it as a highlight of their year. They all have been inspired to work towards another performance and think everyone should have the opportunity to come and share their work.” (passed on by Smadar Bunzl from Kings Langley)

We are heartened by such wonderful feedback and realise that it was worth all our hard work. We were glad to use Rudolf Steiner House Theatre and would like to express our thanks to the staff and the Council for their support.

Although at a germinal stage -- with all its hitches and glitches -- we strongly feel this initiative is worth developing. We would like to do this, learning from our mistakes and successes. Last year we announced the festival too late; this year we are proposing a spring festival. Yes, you have read that right, we want to set a spring date for the next festival. Summer exams make working towards a performance impossible for many upper schools, so we hope a spring date can include these schools. We suggest Friday, 11th March 2016. We imagine the performance part of the event will be in the afternoon with rehearsals in the morning or on the previous day. This date is not reserved with Rudolf Steiner House yet. Please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to attend with a class and if the date works for you. We will do our best to fnd the right date for everyone.

There is always much joy sharing work with others and it is wonderful to have an audience of people 8 interested in eurythmy which includes parents and friends.

There is no lower age limit for classes, but use your own judgement about how younger children will cope with the event and how many helpers you will need to bring in order to keep your group happy and safe.

We would also be delighted to hear from any performing groups who may have suitable items to offer. Hopefully the eurythmy students from the trainings will be there again. It is this mix of performers that makes the event unique and worthwhile.

If we are inundated with groups wanting to perform, as I sincerely hope we will be, we will need to set time-limits so the event can be enjoyed by everyone.

We are working on keeping the fees per participant as low as possible.

We would be delighted if you could register your interest by sending an email to me at: [email protected]

Sigune Brinch

Foundation Stone Research Project

in Eurythmyange, and the central fgure is a carmine red. e have just completed our 12th year work- W Within our sessions over the months we moved ing with this project, and still there are more these colours individually as a “warm up” to the themes to explore. For the last 18 months we day; the yellow, as you may imagine, is a beam- have concentrated on the costume colours of ing linear raying type of movement; the green has the frst three verses of the meditation. First a fresh wakeful quality that links with all the sur- of all we looked at the composition of all the roundings; the orange moves in a fame-like way, dress colours of the costumes and our artist, always returning to the source of the movement’s Juliet Hurner, painted them for us. The dress col- impulse; and the red has an intensity in all directions. our indicates the overall quality of the movement. Then we examined the veil colours. These indicate the If we look at the arrangement of eurythmists on the feeling around the movement, rather like an aura. stage for the frst three verses, we see a chalice shape formed by fve eurythmists open towards Around the radiant yellow dresses in the back the back of the stage (the area that is usually con- corners of the chalice are purple veils, an intense nected with the spiritual world) with a fgure in colour that gives a rich, royal and dignifed sur- the centre at the front. These fve move togeth- rounding for the radiant yellow movement. Further er as a group around a central fgure that has forward around the green dresses are lilac veils, so an independent choreography that is, however, the wakeful, aware movement of the green dress- very closely linked to all members of the chalice. es is surrounded by a wafting, breathing feeling that links with the periphery in a pulsating way. The two positions at the back corners of the chal- The centre front orange dress is surrounded by a ice have radiant yellow dresses, a clear indica- pale blue veil, so the fame-like movement has an tion of the spiritual origins of the chalice; the next expansive feeling around it taking the movement pair that are closer together and further forward out into the periphery. The central red dress has a are a green colour; the front fgure is a pale or- 9 blue veil that carries the red movement purpose- Added to this, the slow changing of the coloured fully out into the periphery in a softened but also lights on the costumes and the spaces between the sculpted way. The central fgure’s colours are an eurythmists, bring the audience into a more pow- intensifcation of those of the centre front fgure. erful connection with the movement on stage and amplifes the mood of the meditation to a height- We became ened level. The entire rainbow spectrum can be We became aware during observed at one point during the meditation which aware during this this process that transports the audience into a spiritual sphere. the entire colour process that the spectrum is We know that eurythmy came into the world in represented on order to express ‘things that are too deep for entire colour the stage, and the words’ and our audiences have always confrmed spectrum is choreographies this. We are very grateful for the continuing are enriched by inancial support that enables our work to develop, represented on the comparisons and we would encourage groups or communities to the stage and contrasts invite us to give a day workshop, when we offer you between the the opportunity to move some of the fundamental chalice members. aspects of the meditation, and share the insights we After working for a time in this way it became have gained through the work of Sergei Prokofeff. apparent that the veil colours were providing a quasi-complementary experi- Mary Watson, ence to the movement or dress colours. That on behalf of the Northern Foundation Stone is, just as in pigment there are primary and Meditation Group complementary colours, and in light there are dif- ferent primary and complementary colours, now [email protected] it seemed that within the meditation colours there are also primary and complementary colours. It felt like a revelation to experience this in the moment of working with the meditation, and unlocked a new point of departure for our relationships around the chalice.

PIGMENT LIGHT MOVEMENT Primary Complementary Primary Complementary Primary Complementary Yellow Purple Red Cyan Red/Orange Blue/Pale Blue Blue Orange Green Magenta Green Lilac Red Green Blue Amber Yellow Purple

1. Establish a single place and means Outreach Initiative for sharing events, initiatives, and research Progress Update relating to educational, performance, ther- apeutic, and professional training aspects The Initiative Core Group are working on the fve of eurythmy (Chrystal Hayn) objectives listed below which were reported on in the Summer Newsletter (page 3). One or two indi- There has been some consultation on this ob- viduals are responsible for the frst three objectives. jective, mainly within the Outreach Resonance Group. No clear decision, scope or funding for 10 this objective has been reached yet. The draft at Steiner House is included in this Newsletter budget is £7,360. Three people are working in (see page 8). this area: Chrystal Hayn, Michael Mehta and Andrea Gibson. Possible technical help needed. 4. Collaborate with other genres such Awaiting funding. as music, drama, opera, and/or poetry One MA with drama and eurythmy as its 2. Strengthen the standing of eurythmy theme is nearing completion. Further in Waldorf Schools (Maurice Manning) collaboration is underway. The draft budget is £5,215. There have been discussions with members of the Waldorf Schools Fellowship administration, 5. Offer hygienic eurythmy to a general eurythmy teachers in Waldorf Schools, eurythmy audience to help strengthen resilience advisors and Eurythmy Association members. No A frst meeting is scheduled for the Eurythmy further progress. The draft budget is £1,840. Association working days this October. An agenda is being circulated. No budget 3. Give young adults a positive experi- fgure yet. ence of eurythmy (Sigune Brinch, Mignon Manning) Human and fnancial resources as well as spiritual support for these fve objectives are being sought -- What Moves You -- A promotion tour for the via funding applications, budgeting, and general 2016 What Moves You project in Berlin is being as well as Section discussions. Through liaising planned. We hope to visit several Waldorf Up- with the Outreach Resonance Group, Eurythmy per Schools in early February, with André Macco Association members, and members of the AS in (project leader) and one of the participants of GB Council, the Core Group anticipate that the the 2012 What Moves You event who is now a next crucial phase of development will follow in student at Eurythmy West Midlands. Our intention a reasonably timely fashion! is to show parts of the flm What Moves You, talk about the 2016 event, and answer questions. The Chrystal Hayn [email protected] aim is to enthuse young people and inspire some (on behalf of the Core Group) of them to participate in the 2016 event. We are hoping to fnd funding for this promotional tour. The draft budget is £4,680.

-- Summer Eurythmy Festival -- A report by Sahya Samson about the June Eurythmy Festival

Reflections on Eurythmy Outreach

Dear Eurythmy Community,

Reaching out is an intrinsically eurythmic gesture. But being eurythmic, it must be preceded by fnding inner reaches that can fow into such a gesture. The dynamic of these two directions probably needs to be achieved again and again by us as a movement, in order for any real progress to be made!

Thus our initiative, with and on behalf of all of you, is the hope to strengthen links between our Eurythmy 11 Association, speech and drama work, music activity, and worldwide research activity supported by the School of Spiritual Science, known as Section work. This forming and forging we hope will become the basis for any outreach work that we achieve in the future.

One of the main prevalent gestures in contemporary society is that of expecting to be informed. This wish to be informed is preceded by a sort of passive expectancy. This can turn and become a wish to shut infor- mation out as we quickly become snowed under with too much of it!

As opposed to being informed, being transformed is an entirely different matter. This process involves ourselves, our being, in ways that are quite other than the process of receiving information. Transformation is often hugely inconvenient, highly ineffcient and usually hard work, accompanied by the archetypal pain of dying and becoming!

I believe the outreach initiative came about in answer to the wish for transformation and was born within the eurythmy schools’ training circle which at the time was still active.

As yet we are still very much at the beginning of taking steps on this potentially transformative path. In order for these efforts to become fruitful, a matching or stronger amount of ‘in-reach’ activity is needed. Could we as a eurythmy community engage more deeply in such an activity?

How could this look? One of many possible steps could be that we humbly recognise our old friends pride, jealousy, fear, self-doubt and inertia. That we try to get to grips with removing hindrances and having the courage to challenge as well as to work together. Some of our work as an outreach initiative involves efforts to shift One… step could be certain conceptions and habits of doing things in order that a clear grasp of what is needed can be achieved. that we humbly recognise our old There seems to be a great deal holding us back. Personally, I often feel I am moving through treacle. friends pride, jealousy, fear, self-doubt and Skype meetings, for example, although useful are often quite a challenge because of the medium. Face-to-face meetings with the inertia. Core Group, the Resonance Group or the Eurythmy Association Council have not yet been achieved. Our frst face-to-face Core Group meeting will take place on 3rd of October. As yet there is no money to pay for the hire of a room or the journeys of those travelling to the meeting. Delays in funding have caused a slowing down of any real work or incarnation process. For any ‘Actions’ to be actioned, there seems to be a level of tenacity required that is concerning, as old habits seem to take over.

Nevertheless, small seeds are just beginning to germinate here and there. However, as yet, a lot needs to happen before your Outreach Initiative can confdently report to you all on ‘good progress’.

Best wishes

Chrystal Hayn [email protected]

12 Eurythmy in Poetry with Social Care... eurythmy in mind where the following three poems create an opportunity is it going? for eurythmic expression to explore the process of seasonal change: bird fre in a coloured wood It is always encouraging to hear how eurythmy is fourishing and appreciated begins in the Autumn, passes through the stark in special education and social care. brilliance of November – the month of the dead – However, despite this, I fear eurythmy and closes with the radiance of Christmas. Eden appears to be losing ground. A combina- tion of cash-strapped commissioners, staff grew fair and green takes another route to Christ- reductions, and managers and trustees mas via the Paradise garden and the seed heralds with limited understanding is threaten- the force within the birth of Spring. Candlemas ing the continuation and development of has arrived. decades of valuable eurythmy work. Newly installed managers in a number of Anthroposophic social care and education Hilary Kidman centres do not seem to recognise the rich [email protected] artistic, therapeutic foundations they inherit.

Eurythmists and others with expert knowledge are typically not being consulted, or, at worst, are 1 being made to leave the places. So who will help to keep eurythmy work alive? bird fre in a coloured wood green gold and red song In the case of social care in autumn fre in leaf and throat England and Wales, the future of song shape and leaf shape eurythmy may depend on the will of adults who have learning diffculties the air’s bright from sky to root requesting eurythmy classes, therapy and bright shape and colour, make way for the Winter performances. This requires them to have the ability to make these requests. mist grey, sea grey grey over grass and stone Who can help them express their requests cold leaves drip drop tap if those with an understanding of what they the bird song gone hope for are gone? And if they are able song light is over, make way for the Winter to request eurythmy, will their managers listen and act to realise their request? white How is it for those of you still working in glance light bright Social Care under new management? Do star cold frost light any readers have experiences to share the way of the Winter, ice white and silver that could be helpful? Can the Eurythmy Association or its members provide advice at day break at day end or support for those feeling vulnerable in their eurythmy work in these places? hold a candle to your friend hold a thought to your dead friend Elisabeth Bamford the way of the winter, fame ash and ember [email protected] angel light, song light, bright shapes of Winter

13 blue and red, purple and gold 3 hail child friend King Christ and lover blue and red, purple and gold the seed there’s warmth in the air, there’s fre in the ember blue and red, purple and gold when the seed calls out angel fre child light make way through the Winter underneath, underearth, there is fre in the dark that will rise into form September 1983 the seeds are alive in the night of the soil 2 toil into green Eden grew fair and green and burn a path All lovely with light till the stem is out But snaky charm and smiling ways like a fame through the earth Led Eve to pick and Adam to taste And loveliness was night. January 1977

Eden was dark The serpent had gone The tears of all creatures From beast to angel Fell down, fell down.

Waiting in the dark Time for a Style A withered tree and Smiles Black and cursed to the root, Saw, after thousands and thousands of years, exhibition? Its bare arms full with fruit. his is an idea which I have already Tmentioned to the Outreach Group, and to Light came back to Eden the circle of eurythmists in the Stroud area. The curse and darkness had gone. And all the creatures Yoga, Pilates and Tai chi are offered in From beast to angel many places and seem to be better known Knelt down, knelt down. than eurythmy. Many people regularly do some kind of movement for their health. December 1986 I would like to see a travelling eurythmy exhibition, beautifully and professionally designed, showing eurythmy’s different aspects. Funding and expertise would be needed to create it, backed by the will and enthusiasm of many people. Local publicity ahead of time in each town would prepare the public to take an interest. The exhibition would be hosted in each place by a local team of euryth- 14 mists and their supporters, who would greet the As you can see, this is only the beginnings of public warmly (I see smiling, stunningly dressed an idea. If more people would get engaged, eurythmists offering plates of delicious snacks). we could build up a picture together of what They would introduce the various areas of work, is needed, what is possible, and how to do it. set out in stalls. The public could sign up for classes, therapy opportunities and workshops. Could this link in with the developing plans of the Performances would be advertised. The flm What Outreach Group? What do you think? Moves You could be showing. If appropriate, a movement session or demonstration could be Elisabeth Bamford offered. [email protected]

Afterwards the exhibition would be packed up and transported to the next venue!

Instituut voor Eurythmie in Werkgebieden

The Hague, 21st April 2015

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

My 90th year has begun!

In January my friend Mami Saphir told me that she has been practising for half a year for a performance she wants to give me on my birthday on March 23rd 2016!

I was totally surprised and overwhelmed, and I would like to accept this gift gladly though in a slightly transformed manner. I would like to create a eurythmy event where every colleague is welcome to show something (solo, duo, small group or even a larger group) and all my friends are invited to come and see the performance!

The date will be Wednesday, March 23rd from 19.30 to 22.00hr. It will take place in The Hague either in De Zalen, Riouwstr. 1 or in De Vrije School, Waalsdorperweg 12. I have lived and worked in both places for long periods of my life.

Please tell me personally by letter or email by 1st December if you would like to participate. Then in January 2016 you will receive a proper invitation showing where the event will take place. (De Zalen accommodates only 80 participants, whereas the Vrije School has room for between 200 and 300 participants.) It will be a birthday party with cake and drinks as well! I am looking forward to this evening!

Many greetings, Annemarie Ehrlich-Liefmann

Annemarie Ehrlich-Liefmann, Dedelstraat 11, 2596 RA Den Haag, [email protected]

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Eurythmy Form by Marguerite Lundgren Here is another form by Marguerite Lundgren, former leader of the London School of Eurythmy. This will work well with adult classes and in schools.

The form is based on expansion and contraction, darkness and light, and inner and outer. To give the feel and experience of what is happening in the text and form, one can start with exercises with all these on their own, then put them on the form before adding any sounds. You can incorporate soul ges- tures as they are or just to give an inner mood.

As always you can change the form to ft the number of people you are working with.

Melissa Harwood [email protected]

Carol Deep in the fading leaves of light There lay the fower that darkness knows, Till winter stripped and brought to light The most incomparable Rose That blows, that blows.

The fashing mirrors of the snow Keep turning and returning still, To see the lovely child below And hold him is their only will; Keep still, keep still.

And to let go his very cry The clinging echoes are so slow, That still his wail they multiply Though he lie singing now below, So low, so low.

Even the doves forget to grieve And gravely to his greeting fy, And the lone places that they leave All follow and are standing by On high, on high.

W. R. Rogers (20th Century Irish) 16 17 18 19 Announcement: Van der Pals/Kirchner-Bockholt Tone Eurythmy Therapy Course to be held in English by Jan Ranck 1-10 April 2016, at Camphill Ballytobin, Ireland

This course is warmly recommended for trained eurythmists, eurythmy therapists, medical doctors and music therapists.

Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s indication that tone eurythmy therapy should be developed in addition to speech eurythmy therapy, the eurythmist Lea van der Pals and the medical doctor Margarete Kirch- ner-Bockholt worked together in the early 1970s to develop a sequence of exercises in connection with the diseases discussed in Rudolf Steiner and ’s book Extending Practical Medicine.

This course was taught for many years by Lea van der Pals within various eurythmy therapy trainings, and the effectiveness of the exercises was proven in practice. When for health reasons Lea van der Pals was prevented from continuing to teach, she passed the torch to Annemarie Baeschlin, who took over holding the course and assisted Lea van der Pals in bringing the material into book form. At this time Jan Ranck held the practice sessions within Annemarie Baeschlin’s courses, and was also involved with compositional and editorial suggestions for the publication Ton-Heileurythmie (Verlag am 1991), published in English in 2009 as Tone Eurythmy Therapy by the Medical Section at the Goetheanum.

Jan Ranck did her eurythmy training in Dornach with Lea van der Pals, and her therapeutic euryth- my training in . She was a faculty member of the Eurythmeum in Dornach and The London School of Eurythmy. She is the founding director of the Jerusalem Eurythmy Ensemble (1990) and the Jerusalem Academy of Eurythmy (1992), and represents Israel in the International Department of Eurythmy Therapy (“Eurythmy Therapy Forum”). She is also an instructor in the Jerusalem Waldorf Teacher Bachelor Program in David Yellin Academic College, and a guest teacher in various venues worldwide, including the Goetheanum and the MA Program in Eurythmy held at Emerson College.

Besides the material mentioned above, Lea van der Pals’ book The Human Being as Music (Robinswood Press 1992), published in German in 1969 as Der Mensch Musik, is highly recommended as background reading for the course.

Information and Registration: [email protected] (as space is limited, early registration is recommended.)

(Anyone interested in initiating such a course in their own country may contact Jan directly at: [email protected])

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Vacancies for educational Eurythmy Therapist reminder eurythmists in the British Part time Isles are also often posted The position is offered on The Performing Arts Section (Dor- on the website of the Steiner the basis of being a “live- nach) Newsletters and the Euryth- Waldorf Schools Fellowship. in” co-worker in the Commu- my Association of North America Please check the following nity working with residents (EANA) Newsletters are available link for information: http:// and co-workers/employees. to members of the Eurythmy Asso- www.steinerwaldorf.org/ ciation of Great Britain and Ireland steiner-teachers/teaching- Newton Dee Camphill vacancies/ in the members part of our website: Community www.eurythmyassociation.uk under Bieldside ‘Member Documents’. Educational Eurythmist ABERDEEN (Part Time KG to Class 8 AB15 9DX - 16 Lessons/week) for im- Tel +44 (0)1224 868 The latest (Michaelmas) Perform- mediate start 595 ing Arts Section Newsletter has just russellpooler@yahoo. been uploaded and it is the frst un- St Paul’s Steiner School co.uk der the editorship of Stefan Hasler 1 St Paul’s Road www.newtondee.co.uk (who became Section Leader last LONDON N1 2QH January). The Performing Arts Section Tel + 44 (0) 20 7226 is keen that this issue in particular is 4454 as widely circulated as possible. Ed. Email [email protected] www.stpaulssteinerschool.org

E urythmy A ssociA tion Di A ry octobEr - mAy 2016

October 2015 Stourbridge 7.30pm - In celebration of those Friday 30th to Saturday 31st: Organiser - Eurythmy WestMid- who have died. Eurythmy Association - Conference lands 01384 442563 Venue - Glasshouse College, & AGM [email protected] Stourbridge Venue - Stroud Organiser - Eurythmy WestMid- Organiser - Eurythmy Association lands 01384 442563 - 01287 636832 Monday 9th to Saturday 14th [email protected] gabriella.vasas-turnbull@euryth- MA in Eurythmy - UK Course myassociation.uk (Block 6) Venue - Emerson College, Forest Row December 2015 November 2015 Organiser- Alanus University of Saturday 5th: Monthly Eurythmy Saturday 7th: Monthly Eurythmy Arts & Social Sciences (C Freder- Workshop 10am to 4pm (for

iary Workshop 10am to 4pm (for ickson 07511 814501) eurythmists and public) with eurythmists and public) with [email protected] Maren Stott £40 Maren Stott £40 Venue - Glasshouse College, Venue - Glasshouse College, Sunday 22nd: Eurythmy Festival Stourbridge D 21 E urythmy A ssociA tion Di A ry octobEr - mAy 2016

Organiser - Eurythmy WestMid- erickson 07511 814501) Organiser- Alanus University of lands 01384 442563 eurythmyma(at)gmail.com Arts & Social Sciences (C Fred- [email protected] erickson 07511 814501) [email protected]

ry Friday 11th: End of Term Festival 7.30pm - Students of March 2016 Eurythmy WestMidlands Saturday 19th: Monthly Euryth- A

i Venue - Glasshouse College, my Workshop 10am to 4pm Stourbridge (for eurythmists and public) with Organiser - Eurythmy West Maren Stott £40 Midlands 01384 442563 Venue - Glasshouse College, [email protected] Stourbridge D Organiser - Eurythmy WestMid- Thursday 17th: End of Term lands 01384 442563 Festival - Students of Peredur [email protected] Eurythmy Venue - Peredur Centre, East Grinstead April 2016

tion Organiser - Peredur Eurythmy Friday 1st to Sunday 10th: Tone 01342 824109 Eurythmy Therapy Course with [email protected] Jan Ranck (Jerusalem) A Venue - Camphill Ballytobin, Callan, County Kilkenny January 2016 Organiser - Gina Poole Saturday 23rd: Monthly [email protected] Eurythmy Workshop 10am to 4pm (for eurythmists and public) Saturday 23rd: Monthly Euryth- with Maren Stott £40 my Workshop 10am to 4pm Venue - Glasshouse College, (for eurythmists and public) with Stourbridge Maren Stott £40 ssoci Organiser - Eurythmy WestMid- Venue - Glasshouse College, lands 01384 442563 Stourbridge [email protected] Organiser - Eurythmy WestMid- lands 01384 442563

A [email protected] February 2016 Saturday 27th: Monthly Euryth- my Workshop 10am to 4pm May 2016 (for eurythmists and public) with Saturday 14th: Monthly Euryth- Maren Stott £40 my Workshop 10am to 4pm Venue - Glasshouse College, (for eurythmists and public) with Stourbridge Maren Stott £40 Organiser - Eurythmy WestMid- Venue - Glasshouse College, lands 01384 442563 Stourbridge [email protected] Organiser - Eurythmy WestMid- lands 01384 442563 Monday 15th to Saturday 20th [email protected] MA in Eurythmy - UK Course (Block 7) Monday 23rd to Saturday 28th Venue - Emerson College, Forest MA in Eurythmy - UK Course urythmy Row (Block 8) Organiser- Alanus University of Venue - Emerson College, Forest Arts & Social Sciences (C Fred- Row E 22

Spring 2016 Newsletter Copy Deadline Saturday 6th February 2016 Please send to: Elisabeth and Chas Bamford [email protected]

Eurythmy Association of Great Britain and Ireland Gabriella Vasas -Turnbull; Council Secretary BCM Eurythmy Association of GB & Ireland LONDON WC1N 3XX Tel +44 (0)1287 636 832 Fax +44 (0)8717 145925 Email: [email protected] www.eurythmyassociation.uk