Newsletter from the Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech and Music
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Newsletter from the Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech and Music Easter 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Topical Forum and Sabine Wiedemann) ................................................. 45 Stuttgart MA “Eurythmy in Education” starts The Search in Music for Threshold Experiences: (Sabine Eberleh) ................................................................. 3 Conference for Composers, at the Goetheanum Introducing Silke Kollewijn as a new co-worker in our Sec- (Wolfram Graf) ................................................................. 45 tion (Silke Kollewijn) .......................................................... 4 Section for the Performing Arts: Singing Conference “The World of Singing” Singing, listening, fashioning (Rita Jacobs, Ammersbek, DE) ........................................ 45 Articles Restorative Justice through the Power of Music: The Cambridge Music Conference, Vancouver, 2012 The Evolutionary Sequence as the essential expression of (Alan Stott) ........................................................................ 46 the human being of movement and speech, between soul and world – as between “I” and spirit-world (Werner Barfod) ................................................................. 5 Obituaries Rudolf Steiner‘s “L” is not yet done (Brigitte Schreckenbach) ................................................... 6 Ekkehart Wacker (21 Sept. 1938 – 1 Oct. 2012) The number of occurrences of I – A – O and the sounds for The master of my apprenticeship the Sun and Moon in the Foundation Stone Verse with (Margarete Kokocinski) ................................................... 48 the fourth verse (Birgit Rusch Meier) ............................... 7 A letter from Nora of Baditz-Stein to Ruth Vogel (c. 1956) ... 9 How did people in ancient cultures move? Events of Section And what can we learn from this for eurythmy? (Johannes Greiner) .......................................................... 10 Eurythmy, Music, Speech ..................................................... 49 Of what kind are the sources of CHOREOCOSMOS, of the “cosmic and sacred dance” of eurythmy? (Gudrun D. Gundersen) .................................................. 14 Announcements Music-Eurythmy Form and Musical Repeats (Julian Clarke) .................................................................. 15 Eurythmy, Music, Speech ..................................................... 50 Thoughts on the tasks facing eurythmy today: 12.12.12 (Uzo Kempe) .................................................................... 17 Further “secret eurythmy”? Publications & Reviews (Alan Stott) ........................................................................ 18 The Twelve Senses in the Experience of Speech: A Study Appeal (Martin Georg Martens) .................................................. 24 Pioneers of a new art of movement: Biographical portraits English Indications for Speech Eurythmy of the first eurythmists 1912–1925 (Christina Beck) ............................................................... 26 (Margrethe Solstad) ......................................................... 58 How do the lower and upper ego-streams affect speech? Book project: Kommentierte Darstellung der medizinisch – (Dietmar R. Ziegler) ......................................................... 27 menschenkundlichen Angaben Rudolf Steiners zur The Voice-Ideal in Transition: The influence of recordings Sprachgestaltung [Presentation with commentary of on the vocal world (Marret Winger) ................................ 30 Steiner’s medical and anthropological indications for “In these old notes lies the seed of future music” speech-formation] (Michael Kurtz) ................................................................ 32 (Jana Würker) ................................................................... 58 Book review: Maija Pietikäinen – Des Herzens Weltenschlag. Biography of Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström Reports (Hans Martijn) .................................................................. 58 Research Project: Eurythmy in Education today The Occult Script in Eurythmy (Jürgen Frank) ...................................................................36 (Elisabeth Goebel) ........................................................... 61 Why Eurythmy with Masks? (Sieglinde Lehnhardt) ...................................................... 39 “What moves you” (Holger Hansen Arden & Birrethe Arden) ...................... 40 Evviva Euritmia! (Gia van den Akker) .................................. 41 100 Years of Eurythmy – Impressions from the Centennial Conference at Eurythmy Spring Valley (Beth Dunn-Fox) .............................................................. 43 “Sounding the Logos” in Aberdeen: A voice from the future (Annamária Balog) ............................................... 44 Island of Development (Heike Bienek, Ursula Reichert TOPICAL FORUM 3 FOREWORD FOREWORD we are very pleased that she has taken on this task. The Michaelmas Newsletter will contain a report on her work. The Dear Colleagues, various committees within the Section also report on their tasks. What does the year 2013 demand of each of us individual- The big stage at the Goetheanum is closed from Michael- ly? What can we do on our own, and in what areas of respon- mas 2013 for about a year due to refurbishment. The building sibility do we have to rely on an intensified collaboration? needs constant attention. It is a great joy for all who work The School of Spiritual Science with its Sections as fields of there that the stage in this regard receives first priority. For work has placed this question at the centre of its work and at the donations that have so far been received at this point, all levels seeks to strengthen intersectional work. In this way most warm and grateful thanks! Before the closing, however, of collaboration, the individual Sections in their searchings in the summer the Mystery Dramas will be performed once can gain enriching and deepening points of view. more. The Conference is organised through the collaboration This year’s Whitsun Conference at the Goetheanum is fully of the College of the School of Spiritual Science. devoted to the arts. Michael Kurtz, in collaboration with the Wishing you all best wishes for the work this spring, Fine Arts Section, the Humanities Section, and the General With warm greetings, Section has organised a Conference in which from different Yours, sides a deepened access will be worked on both to Rudolf Steiner’s impulse for art, and to the sources of creative art. The perception and development of an enhanced co-ope- ration with initiatives around the world will be taken up afresh for the profession of artistic speech and drama. Silke Kollewijn from November 2012 is responsible in the Section; Margrethe Solstad TOPICAL FORUM Stuttgart MA also include experienced eurythmists seeking to deepen and “Eurythmy in Education” starts gain a further qualification. With the new fashioning and accreditation of the program- Sabine Eberleh me, “Educational Eurythmy with basic qualification (BA)” and “Eurythmy in Education (MA)”, the proven co-operation With 18 students, the first Master’s programme “Eurythmie- of the School of Stuttgart with the Eurythmeum Stuttgart pädagogik” at the Free University of Stuttgart and the Stutt- continues. “In the several years of fruitful co-operation, we gart Eurythmeum has started. In addition to graduates of the have produced well-trained eurythmy teachers. In the newly basic eurythmy training also experienced eurythmy teachers developed courses, it was important for us to assess the study take up this programme as a possibility of educational deepe- and really deepen the artistic eurythmy training, giving it the ning. With the qualified training of future eurythmy teachers time it needs – and yet to introduce basic education and and the option to acquire state-recognised diplomas, impor- eurythmy-education (including teaching practice) and tant steps have been taken to strengthen long-term eurythmy accommodate this into the BA degree,” says Tania Mierau. in Waldorf schools. Matthias Jeuken adds: “The Master’s programme ‘Eurythmy in Education’ building on this offers a professionally focused How great the need is for a thorough educational deepening training for the specific demands of the eurythmy teaching of eurythmy, is shown by the number who applied. Already in Waldorf schools.” in the first round of the Masters Course “Eurythmiepädago- As is shown by the actually current participation of foreign gik” at the Free University in Stuttgart, 18 students have students, the academic qualification in eurythmy in educati- enrolled. As the Programme Director Tania Mierau (Euryth- on is becoming increasingly important not only in Germany. meum Stuttgart) and Matthias Jeuken (Free University of Especially in countries where Waldorf education is not known Stuttgart) report, these consist firstly to young eurythmy- and recognised as in Germany, academic qualifications for graduates with the basic training in eurythmy. They have employment in schools is often essential to strengthen and already earned an educational basic qualification, and want support the Waldorf movement abroad. to build on it for their work in Waldorf schools. The students “The Master’s programme ‘Eurythmiepädagogik’ is also TOPICAL FORUM 4 open to graduates of other recognised eurythmy trainings, if Seminary, Engen, DE. they take the university’s admission and examination proce- Started a family with Valentijn Kollewijn, four