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THE KAIROS at the EURYTHMY Centre for Creative TRAINING Education PROGRAMME November 2014 Our Dear Friends, Once again we can look back on a rich and full year with manifold activities in our Kairos Eurythmy Training. We are very grateful for the support you give in thoughts, in being with us, and in your financial assistance, without you, we could not do our work and build this seed for a ‘humanity education’ which this training truly endeavours to provide. This year the Centre for Creative Education celebrated its 21 st birthday! How wonderful that this organisation has been training teachers for 21 years, who have gone out into the world and are now bringing this inspiring artistically based anthroposophical education into both Waldorf and State schools in classrooms here in South Africa and abroad. We at the Kairos Eurythmy Training are 16 years old and are delighted to soon see our 7 th graduating class spreading their Eurythmy wings on their chosen paths – the artistic healing forces will accompany all of them as far as the Philippines! Being a birthday year, we see our highlights as special gives and blessings! We were invited to participate in Cape Town’s annual Baxter Dance Festival, a major event in South Africa’s dance world. Many streams and genres of contemporary dance were presented. We brought a programme filled with music and speech Eurythmy entitled Come Hope with Me. This was a great opportunity for Eurythmy to meet the world and judging by the enthusiastic, warm response and comments like “what an amazing, unique, universal dance!” and … “we should see more of it.” We hope and trust that the Eurythmy touched many souls in the auditorium. We were very fortunate and grateful to have a wonderful violinist from Dornach, Switzerland, Rainhard Roux, and the muli-talented Luke Townsend on percussion and saxophone, as well as our dear pianist, Tim Hyslop to accompany us at this prestigious event. Another highlight was our performance at the Anthroposophical Society’s fundraising concert at Novalis College where we were able to work with Celeste Roux, dear friend and colleague who now works as a Eurythmist and costume- creator at the Goetheanum. And it was a great honour for the Kairos Eurythmy Ensemble to be invited to the Goetheanum in August to give meditative Eurythmy presentations and workshops within the conference for the High School of Spiritual Science. We were extremely touched at how deeply our work was appreciated. Thank you to Silke for her beautiful, inspiring choreography for this event. The visit of Helga Daniel, who is the leading figure in the Pedagogical Eurythmy Teacher Training in Europe, was a major highlight in our year. Helga gave two of her precious holiday weeks to our training and inspired the students in their budding teacher capacities. This then was followed by the student’s practicals in the schools from which they returned more mature and with a broader sense of the responsibility they carry as Eurythmy students and as teachers in the becoming. A very warm and most grateful thank you to Helga! And also a big thank you to all the schools who hosted our students. Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the year, a group of keen students assembled to start the Eurythmy training. We were delighted to welcome them and are now challenged as we juggle two hall spaces for movement with all our 4 courses. We are most grateful for all the input which our whole collegium gives to the development of the students in all the varieties of subjects: our musicians without whom we could not exist: Ingrid Salzmann, Anthea Haupt, Tessa de Groot and Tim Hyslop; Charlene Shaw took the students on exciting art explorations and Michael Grimley continued to foster the clear thinking in his study work, and Briar Grimley engaged them in fascinating experiences in geometry. Marion Penfold so kindly helped some of our second-language students with English and for this we are truly grateful. The second year students were part of the rich modules within the B.Ed Teacher Training department exploring the constitution of the human being in its manifold appearance; this interlinking work is most beneficial for our students and the lecturers Beulah Reeler, Peter van Alphen and Willem van der Velden inspire the students to become excellent teachers. In the middle of the year the 3 rd and 4 th year students brought the performance of Snow White and Rose Red to many delighted children in schools in the Western Cape including Zenzeleni Waldorf in Khayelitsha. As always, just before the year ends, the practices for the end of the year presentations are in full swing. The combined 4 th and 3 rd year group are working on their group graduation pieces and the two 4 th year students: Geralyn Laset and Laura Engelke are also working on their individual Solo presentations. We are looking forward to the graduation performance which will take place in early March and to their graduation in the next term. We then hope that once again we will be able to take the big leap across the ocean to travel to Europe and join in with the 4 th year graduation conference in Dornach in June 2015 … but many fundraising activities still need to happen in order that this dream may become true! With all our hearts we THANK YOU for all your support and help that you give to us. We wish you a peace-filled Christmas time and may the spirit of the Christmas Light shine onto your new Year. With our love Silke and Michelle “The greatest things in life are worth waiting for”. For me this speaks of a soul journey towards self assertion through the overcoming of life’s challenges. Therefore being part of great creativity every day is a priceless experience for which I am humbly grateful to be part of. We are born to be the best at what we are assigned to do and ‘movement’ for me is how I express myself. Thank you to Eurythmy that I have this opportunity. MOVEMENT IS LIFE! The Baxter Dance Festival was a great experience to be part of. The show itself helped us to grow and also gave us the chance of show-casing Eurythmy on a large theatre stage – it was one of my biggest highlights! The support from family and friends helped and inspired me to do more than what was expected of me. The long hours of practice and sweating really paid off – we put Kairos Eurythmy on another level. Thank you all for the love, time and support. Sandise Ngxumsa , 3 rd year In tone Eurythmy, we are working on a piece where the elements of Major, Minor and Discords have been introduced. These elements have brought up many different feelings within me – especially the Discord. Sometimes I have found it difficult to recognise and differentiate these elements, but they are interesting and keep one awake! I love music and tone Eurythmy with Silke is very inspiring. Nkosinathi Ndlovu , 1 st year I greet you with the universal message - with Peace and Mercy (Asalamualaikom waraghmatullah he barakaatu) Through my impulse of seeking it was as though Eurythmy found me. I was one of the first to join my 1 st year group and as time went by, we were 3 and eventually 6. We are currently a group of 5. The group steadily learned to work together as a unit. I believe that we all came into each others paths for a reason. I find the journey unique as we are only beginning to uncover what each of us holds within ourselves. I do believe that our lecturers Silke and Michelle’s purpose is to unveil our individuality so that we as budding Eurythmists begin to share our knowledge in communities and the world. I look forward and beyond to my training. With Gratitude Nisreen Edross, 1 st year After our pedagogical training with Helga Daniels, we all went to different schools - some to observe teaching in Waldorf schools and others, especially the 3rd and 4th years, to teach. It was all a wonderful experience and we gained knowledge of how teachers manage in their teaching careers. The most interesting part was how the Waldorf curriculum brings and supports rhythmic lifestyles in children which will later on, positively affect them in their adulthood. We are also involved with other subjects like painting and music. With music, we learn how to play the recorder as well as the notes of a piano. Reading music is an important thing that we learn as a basis for tone eurythmy. Painting improves and stimulates our creativeness, because as eurythmists we need to be creative. Ponego Mosige , 2 nd year Rudolf Steiner said “If we wish to enter into the true nature of eurythmy we must perforce enter into the true nature of the human being”. This year we were given the task to research and present the life and work of various artists; Turner, Van Gogh, Chagall and Picasso. We needed to connect their qualities to Eurythmy Principles. Through doing this we gained a deeper understanding of what they were presenting through their art. I was struck by how ‘strength’ and ‘dynamic’ play such an important role in our Eurythmy. Mandisa Ngwane , 2 nd year How fascinating it is to learn about the Greek gods and their Egos and how each god lives in the human soul and how we need to apply their special qualities in our Eurythmic movement. How wonderful to see the masters of art expressing themselves through paintings and sculptures and into the smallest detail - striving for perfection.

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