EANAEANA VOLUME 93 Spring 2017 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. Vacant 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] Laurel Loughran, 778-508-3554 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 from the President Alice Stamm 4 Letter from the Editor Maria Ver Eecke 4 In Memoriam for May Delle LeBeau Friends 5 In Memoriam for Christine Custer Friends 10 Articles Coleridge: A Life Illumined Coralee Frederickson 14 Eurythmy: An Art That Makes Visible the Inaudible Kate Reese Hurd 18 Reports Regional Reports EANA Council Representatives 19 Eurythmy Spring Valley ESV Faculty 35 Reflections on Pursuing an M.A. degree in Performance Eury. Virginia Hermann 39 Lemniscate Arts Marke Levene 40 ARCHÉ Project Gail Langstroth 41 Soulful Sparks Radio Marta Stemberger, MA 41 Reviews 42 Letters to the Editor 44 Announcements 44 Calendar 51 Front Cover: Linda Larson performing a Vivaldi piece in eurythmy at the Santuario de Guadalupe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. In search for eurythmy images online, the Editor came across this amazing photo of Linda and asked her to write about it. “The Santuario de Guadalupe is the oldest standing shrine in the U.S. The tone of high C was being moved in eurythmy when Linda’s gesture embraced the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the central figure on the full-wall Altar painting, merging her hands with that image in the very brief second that this photo was taken. A sacred image still there from the 1770’s, a timeless merging of the distant past with the present moment! The eurythmy opened the Santa Fe Waldorf School December Festival evening (mid-1990’s) and was followed by the school faculty performing a play in celebration of the Christmas Season.” Inner Back Cover: Students of John Hinkle, Credo Waldorf H.S., perform at Sonoma State University. Outer Back Cover: Gabrielle Armenier performs at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, NY, NY, and at the University of Texas. www.eurythmyagency.com 4 Eurythmy Association of North America Letter from the President Ann Arbor, Michigan, who lived to be 103 years old. Blessings! Dear Friends, Sheila Shapiro has been a tremendous help with this I have the chance to take a trip to India this month and issue, with her contributions and by contacting eurythmists. I am very excited about this possibility. At the same time I My heartfelt gratitude goes to Sheila, who will no longer am very much looking forward to the workshop in Portland serve on the EANA Council. May she continue to contribute this summer, August 4-16. The EANA Council will meet in as a ‘roving reporter’! Fortunately Victoria Sander has person for the first time in several years (as we wanted to agreed to join the work of the Council as the Regional give monies to our groups or workshops and not to plane Representative to the Northeastern Region. You will read companies), but in the light of this event, we are using this more about Victoria in the fall issue of the newsletter. opportunity to come together on your behalf, as well as My great fear is that someone may feel left out of a ours. We are making every possibility for some travel assis- publication. If your contribution was lost in the Inbox, tance to the workshop; contact Gino Ver Eecke to begin the please forgive me. This is a group process and it is not procedure to request funds. possible without the efforts of all our dear Reps! Please come to the EANA Annual General Once again I am so grateful for everyone takes the time Meeting on Monday, August 7, in Portland ,Oregon! to write about eurythmy. I sent out some fifty Thank You cards to Society Best wishes, members this year for contributing to EANA, some of them Maria Ver Eecke never seeing a performance in their area or rarely doing eurythmy. So we are very grateful for this idealistic support of our art. If there are members in your areas please do be in touch with them, invite them to performances or work- Eurythmist Hermes H. Vannak shops. They are anxious to see this “little bird that flew into April 26, 1912 - October 14, 2015 the Anthroposophical Movement.” There are exciting † ventures happening in our eurythmy world which Maria has From the Archives: President’s Letter, Summer 2000 no doubt found out about and includes them here. On Mother’s Day we had a meeting in Chicago that is We were very saddened to learn about Mary Delle Le perhaps a microcosmic picture of this aspect of the Beau who crossed the threshold in January, quite unexpect- Eurythmy Association. We have thirteen eurythmists in the edly and so quietly and still. Sheila will write about her and area and nine of us met to do eurythmy together and share I only wanted to add: when I lived in Los Angeles I would a conversation. The highlight was hearing from Hermes drop over to her little house in South Pasadena to look at her Vannak, an 88-year-old eurythmist from Estonia who lives beautiful garden. She not only loved eurythmy and the near Chicago. Hermes told us she was born in 1912; the Russian language and modern poets, but loved the world of same year eurythmy was born. She shared with us many the elemental beings. Her garden was gently laid out so that indications from her early training and also her current they moved in growing and becoming, in dying down and plans for developing eurythmy. It was very stimulating to seeding so that as you walked with her, their seasonal have such a span of time — the whole life of eurythmy — secrets began to tickle at your steps. She was never senti- there before us in Hermes with her strong living intentions mental about them or her plants, but very objective about for the future in eurythmy. One of Hermes' projects is a book why what was where. She had expressed the wish to write she is writing about her experiences in eurythmy. something down about this work so that others could find a Barbara Richardson relation to these little beings. Recently her friends in Pasadena gathered to celebrate Mary Delle’s life at one of Corrections her favorite places, Eaton Canyon Nature Reserve. Greetings! See you in Portland! With best greetings, from Alice We have just received our new edition of the EANA newsletter [Fall 2017]. I just got a chance to glance over it Letter from the Editor and I wanted to alert you to an error: Our photos of the So many of you have contributed to this spring issue; Cascadia Society Fairy Tale include children from the the work of invisible hands, but many combined voices.