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EANAEANA VOLUME 91 Spring 2016 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE EURYTHMY ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA NEWSLETTERNEWSLETTER 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 Sheila Shapiro, 518-937-0425 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. Cristina Geck, 303-402-9030 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 Rachael Abbott, 747-258-8266 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 Performing Arts Section 34 Margetts Rd. Helen Lubin, 916-966-5749 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 Susan Eggers, [email protected] Although welcomed, the viewpoints expressed in the EANA 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 5 Memoriam for Ruth Finser Siegfried Finser 6 Articles Condensed History of the School of Eurythmy Kristin Hawkins 7 Reflections on the First Eurythmy Training in the USA Alumni of A Course 13 Some Thoughts in Connection to Rudolf Steiner’s Notebooks Dorothea Mier 16 English Indications for Speech Eurythmy Cristina Beck 17 Eurythmy in the Middle School Laura Radefeld 18 Etheric Bodies are Moving to Speech Sound Etudes Kate Reese Hurd 20 Eurythmy at a Meeting of AWSNA Delegates Susan Eggers 23 The Overall Health of Eurythmy Laura Radefeld 24 Reports and Reviews From the Section for Performing Arts Sebastian Jüngel 25 From the Trenches of NYC Marta Stemberger 26 In the Stream of Eurythmy: SFYET on Tour David Weber 27 EANA Regional Reports EANA Council Members 31 Letter to the Editor 55 Resources 55 Announcements 56 Calendar 58 Front Cover: Maya Neumann of Portland Eurythmy, Portland, Oregon Inner Back Cover: High School Students of Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge, NY; Cascadia Society, Vancouver, BC, and Seattle Waldorf School, Seattle, Washington Outer Back Cover: Bay Area Eurythmy Ensemble, photography by Wendy Baker; www.wendybaker.com 4 Eurythmy Association of North America Letter from the President colleagues are up to throughout this continent. Thank you to all the Reps. for taking this time to contact, telephone, Dear Friends, email, cajole, and connect with everyone. We love to hear As I write this, Candlemas has just blessed our western about your work or, your retirement situation! All your shores with rain and spring weather. I had the joy to watch eurythmy activities and strivings are important to us all. So the San Francisco High School Eurythmy Troupe perform many thanks all around. their program. For 21 years, Astrid Tiersch has been bring- I have asked Maria to share a new eurythmy figure. Dr ing together high school students and preparing programs, Gudrun Merker, from the Lake of Constance area, has spent which include classical music pieces, poems in many lan- some years working on the “C” sound. Reg Down also came guages and humorous selections. The troupes have gone to to a color combination relationship in his book and it is many different countries, Waldorf schools and communities interesting to see what each one has brought. Research is in those countries, performing for children and families. such a part of our work that it is wonderful to share such In the program just presented, because they will go to insights. Thanks to The International Journal for Eurythmy Stuttgart, Germany, not only Beethoven began the program, Therapy for publishing this. but two poems from German poets were included. Plus, a Best greetings from Alice very funny Hauschka cosmetic piece (the Wala is close by in Eckwalden!) extolling the use of rose cream for the skin! Stuttgart is Astrid’s home place, school and training, so understanding the speech sound “C” this will be a festive homecoming I am sure. We wish Reprinted from The them Godspeed on this journey. They also will stop in International Journal for Dornach, so that the students can see the Goetheanum, Eurythmy Therapy 2015, No. 13 etc. One additional part of their program was the inclusion “In the primordial Word, the C is of a local artist’s work. This always has connected the the regent of health.” (R. Steiner) program to the greater art community and this year, a And it was precisely at a phase of whistler showed his amazing talent with some arias from exhaustion that the Imagination of operas. This was to the delight of many children in the the “C” [ts] came home to me. For a audience. long time already I had been living In addition, our Bay Area will welcome Marin Stott with Steiner’s characterization of the for a workshop at the East Bay Waldorf School. The East various speech sounds, including “C” Bay Eurythmy Troupe is sponsoring this event, which to of course. I succeeded in drawing the this date is sold out. On Sunday evening, Feb. 14, Marin Imagination – except for a depiction will give a solo performance, including Bach’s Chaconne of the left foot which, on the pre- and other pieces. Much gratitude goes to Isabela Guardia pared figure too, did not seem to cor- and Jazmin Hicks for arranging this. We are grateful for respond to the archetype within me. all this work here on the West Coast. Years later, when Anna Köhl learned of the existence of In the past weeks, I have been able to observe some col- the “C” figure, we examined the problem together and suc- leagues’ classes and how well they are managing the chil- ceeded in improving it with a small lengthening of the foot. dren. One form is always of interest to me – the Casini Anna Köhl included the wooden, colored model in her stu- curve, Wir Wollen Suchen or perhaps, We Go Looking. It is dio. In the meantime, some who have seen the figure have THE form for the nine-year change, corresponding to the felt the image to accord with their own experience of the cross stitch done in handwork in the fourth grade. From my sound. It can now therefore find its way into the world to experience, I would suggest that this form not be tried convey the raising of matter by the spirit, its power as regent before the nine-year change is under way. It is too difficult of health. for second graders, who still live in the circle-point relation- Rudolf Steiner’s characterization of the sound “C”: ship. An ellipse is truly a new step, with two focal points, as 1. Feeling: One will not be able to feel that what one in I and You, or I and the world. Following the German a bit, seeks to imitate when the sound “C” is at rest. Feel that this I have used: We Go Looking (E, O U), for Sweet Friends contains the following: it is somewhat light, matter is lifted from Afar (UI, Ah), We Know each other Well (O, A) the by the spirit. (GA 279, lecture 2) German vowels. It can accompany the children throughout 2.
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