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EEAANNAA “Eurythmy in China” NN EE WW SS LL EE TT TT EE RR VOLUME 89 Spring 2015 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE EURYTHMY ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA 2 Eurythmy Association of North America Mission Statement The Eurythmy Association of North America is formed for these purposes: To foster eurythmy, an art of movement originated and developed by Rudolf Steiner out of anthroposophy; to foster the work of eurythmists on the North American continent by sponsoring performances, demonstrations, and workshops; and to maintain, develop, and communicate knowledge related to eurythmy and the work of eurythmists by means of newsletters and publications. The Eurythmy Association of North America is a non - OFFICERS OF THE EURYTHMY ASSOCIATION profit corporation of eurythmists living and working on the President North American continent. Any eurythmist holding an Alice Stamm, 916-728-2462 accredited diploma recognized by the Section for Eurythmy, Treasurer Speech, and Music at the Goetheanum, may join the Gino Ver Eecke, 845-356-1380 Association as a member. Eurythmy students and non- Corresponding Secretary accredited, but actively working eurythmists, are warmly Alice Stamm, 916-728-2462 welcomed to join as Friends. Recording Secretary The Newsletter is published two times annually. Catherine Padley, 206-465-4616 Annual dues are from January through December. Newsletter Editor and Archival Secretary Membership subscription is $45 single/ $50 for euryth - Maria Ver Eecke, 845-356-1380 mist-couple; for eurythmists living outside of North America it is $50 single/ $55 for eurythmist-couple; for all REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES friends, musicians, or speakers the subscription is $30. Eastern Canada Single issues are $6 a copy. Please make checks out Margaret Osmond, 902-466-7735 through a bank with a branch in the United States. Northeast The Council members believe that financial concerns Karen Renaud-Guitman, 603-933-3129 should not hinder eurythmists from membership. Spring Valley Area Eurythmists should feel able to contribute a lesser amount if Sea-Anna Vasilas, 909-496-6308 they cannot afford the full annual contribution. We hope that Southeast others will also contribute more to support our work. Raymonde van der Stok Fried, 215-410-1403 All checks should be made payable to the Eurythmy Northern Midwest Association of North America and mailed to the treasurer: Constance Michael, 513-961-7455 Gino Ver Eecke Southwest and Mountain 34 Margetts Rd. Marguerite McKenna, 303-808-1124 Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977 Northwest Email: [email protected] Catherine Padley, 206-465-4616 Articles, announcements, news items, poems, and Northern California forms should be sent to the editor at least one month before Isabella Guardia Ferragutti, 669-233-924 publication. Deadline dates for the two annual issues are Southern California October 1 and March 1. Items may be faxed or sent via Kurt Faerber, 808-393-9545 email. Photos sent by mail will be returned. Photos may be Coordinator of Grants emailed as attachments. Carsten Callesen, 610-455-2038 Please mail to: Member-at-Large EANA Newsletter Editor Christina Beck, 919 643 2066 Maria Ver Eecke Representative for Section 34 Margetts Rd. Laura Radefeld Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977 Eurythmist-in-need fund Phone: 845-356-1380 Alice Stamm and Raymonde Fried Email: [email protected] Liaison to AWSNA www.eana.org Carla Beebe-Comey, 970-309-5048 Although welcomed, the viewpoints expressed in the Although welcomed, the viewpoints expressed in the EANA EANA Newsletter are not necessarily those of the publisher. Newsletter are not necessarily those of the publisher. Eurythmy Association of North America 3 CONTENTS FROM THE COUNCIL Letter and Report from the President Alice Stamm 4 Letter from the Editor Maria Ver Eecke 4 Articles Eurythmy: Waking and Walking in Joy Mark Ebersole 5 “The Word of my Feet”The Three Parts of Walking Kate Reese Hurd 9 Experiences in China Claudia Fontana 12 Eurythmy in the “Land of the Midnight Sun” Maria Ver Eecke 15 Discipline Through the Eurythmy Elements Marie-Helene Harlow 18 Reports and Reviews Regional Reports Council Members 23 Eurythmy in Italy Alexandra Spadea 39 Birthday Celebration for Kristin Hawkens Christiane Marks; Hanna Kress 40 Bay Area Eurythmy Ensemble Isabella Guardia Ferragutti and Ruth Bucklin 41 Sound Circle Eurythmy Update David-Michael Monasch 42 Eurythmy Spring Valley Annual Report Beth Dunn-Fox 43 Letters from Friends 48 Announcements and Events 48 Master’s Degree in Eurythmy, USA Shaina Stoehr and Coralee Frederickson 51 Summer Eurythmy Week in Canada Gabriele Schneider 54 Calendar Front Cover: Eurythmist Claudia Fontana with students in Chengdu, China Inner Back Cover: High School Students of Orange County Waldorf School, photos by Shauna Forsum; Eurythmy Northwest Children’s Programs; Portland Eurythmy at Portland Children’s Festival Outer Back Cover: Eurythmy Northwest of Seattle, Maiko Canard and Bonnie Freundlich (photo above) and group piece, “The Last Leaf” (photo below) 4 Eurythmy Association of North America Letter from the President Sometimes I have noticed that the “angel” of movement moves around, sometimes blessing here, sometimes there. Dear Friends, So one can ask, how is the “mother” doing, the art of This time of year is usually when there is a taking stock eurythmy itself in each of our lives. Where are efforts need - of the union, the state or city. If we consider the State of ed now to help an aspect of eurythmy which has become Eurythmy, there is much to be quite grateful for, knowing less in the forefront of our consciousness or activity? that what we do can be like a drop of water on a hot stone. Working on a piece for a course which I give, it is The possibility to do a B.A. and a Master’s degree in amazing again to see how the genius of a language bends eurythmy is a significant step for our art, making it stand itself toward eurythmic expression; how this bending meets with our sisters and brothers in the dance world. It brings to the rising gesture of eurythmic movement; how just those consciousness what it is we are doing in these times. Thus sounds are perfect for showing the imagination of a word, a this art fits in to the modern educational form of today. sentence, a whole verse. To bring these moments to people When eurythmy and its sister art of speech is a part of in all walks of life is such a gift, as we know. Is there more an anthroposophical community, we know how the whole that we can do to bring eurythmy to children today? Now cultural life is enhanced, changed, lifted to a finer level of we must pay tribute to those eurythmy teachers in the high consciousness. There is as yet no data to verify this, only the schools, who have built up such wonderful programs for the feeling of such a place in its role in the culture today. The students, taking these out into the world, into other commu - words renewing, enlivening, refining, come to mind when nities, often joining with others to bring about festivals of describing what eurythmy brings to a place and to people. movement, as we have seen from photos in our Newsletter. Now we have a myriad of possibilities to watch Much gratitude for this work! eurythmy online. The EANA Council members have been Thanks to all whose eurythmy is enriching your life and asking whether we can provide a link to such sites or videos the lives of those around you in small or great ways. Thank that may really represent eurythmy? In truth, I must offer you all for sharing these modest, humble, exciting and per - the humble opinion, none of these do. You can get an idea haps amazing efforts underway. Thank you for taking risks! about the color, flow, positions, patterns, and the appeal of With best greetings, from Alice the one moving; this can be helpful for the performer to assess the work, the effect. The spirit and backspace however, are lost. We can provide links to our colleagues Letter from the Editor who have done such work; it gets the message out there in Dear Members and Friends, a world acutely aware of what is online. And perhaps this Thank you, Regional Representatives, for your reports will bring persons to inquire after a training in this art. It on eurythmy activity in North America. The EANA Council will be interesting to hear about such results. welcomes Isabella Guardia Ferragutti, who recently joined. The need for trained pedagogical eurythmists in schools Thank you and best wishes to Anne Cook, for representing has never been greater. Eurythmists who love children, your region of Northern California. Thank you to everyone know how to handle them, are creative in their lessons and for your submissions, making this another great issue! movements. There are at least two large schools out here in The question of media is relevant to many people, the west, which do not have eurythmy for their lower especially young adults who change their views of these schools. The American Eurythmy School often sends out devices once they become parents. Douglas Gerwin wrote their graduates to do blocks in the schools. Blocks keep an insightful article, “If E-Go Today, E-Gone Tomorrow,” eurythmy alive in a school, but rarely build up a program. published in an online newsletter on the website for the Eurythmists from Spring Valley have also given blocks in Center for Anthroposophy. Douglas questions the role of many local schools there in the east. I salute those few technology in education and in society as a whole, asking eurythmists who have maintained a program for more than whether children are able to move, to create their own men - thirty years.