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Essential Conferences for Summer, 2008
NEW: Discover Waldorf Education, an introductory video on YouTube.
NEW: To view Grade Six Geometry, another YouTube video, click here.
Reading and Writing, The Waldorf Approach - click here to view this 20-minute
Eurythmy - Making Movement Human - view excerpts
Watch a Google Video of Eugene Schwartz's Introduction to Waldorf given in Izmir, Turkey, May 2006
Watch a Google Video of an excerpt from Eugene's lecture No Childhood Left Behind
NEW: Blinking, Feeling, & Willing
NEW: High Stakes Testing & Waldorf Schools
Beyond Cognition - Children and Television
Do the Festivals Have a Future?
Assuming Nothing: Nature vs. Nurture
Handwork and Intellectual Development
Freedom of Choice or Freedom From Choice?
Helping Your Child's Teacher Communicate
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Eurythmy: Making Movement Human
A New DVD Produced by Hagens Recording Studios Written by Eugene Schwartz Filmed and Edited by Sam Russell
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From the liner notes:
Although the art of eurythmy was developed nearly a century ago by Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), its very existence remains one of the best-kept secrets in the world of the performing arts. The content of this DVD attempts to restore eurythmy to its rightful place among the twenty-first century performing arts.
Eurythmy was born out of a question. In 1912, the mother of Lori Maier-Smits, a young American woman living in Germany, asked Rudolf Steiner for advice concerning her daughter’s future vocation. Recognizing the young woman’s proclivity for movement, but also aware of the insufficiency of the early twentieth-century schools of dance, Steiner began to develop an entirely new art of movement that choreographed movements for the spoken word as well as for music. His efforts were undertaken at a time when a number of other significant artists, Rudolf von Laban, Emile Jacques-Dalcroze, and Isadora Duncan among them, were attempting to overcome the mechanizing forces that were deadening human movement. What distinguished Steiner’s work was its careful formulation and comprehensive approach to every aspect of movement. It also necessitated the development of a sister-art, that of speech formation (or “creative speech”) which provided eurythmists with a foundation for moving to the spoken word.
The main program on this DVD, Eurythmy, Making Movement Human, overviews the art of eurythmy. Interviews with Barbara Schneider-Serio, Director of the Spring Valley School of Eurythmy, and Virginia Sease, a member of the Executive Council of the Goetheanum, explain the basic principles of eurythmy and give a feeling for the historical and artistic context in which eurythmy first appeared. Eurythmy teachers Maria ver Eecke, Tertia Gale, and Raymonde Fried are seen working with students from grades one through eleven, illustrating how eurythmy is applied in the Waldorf school setting, while Brigida Baldszun demonstrates eurythmy’s importance in adult education. These classroom scenes reveal that eurythmy’s importance extends far beyond the performance stage.
In Dornach, Switzerland, Carina Schmid and the Goetheanum Stage Ensemble present a powerful example of eurythmy as a performing art. A long excerpt from the Ensemble’s performance of Sofia Gubaidulina's modern composition Seven Words demonstrates that, while eurythmy’s roots lie in the early twentieth century, it is moving forward at the cutting edge of the twenty-first century.
Four supplementary programs on this DVD present other aspects of this multi-faceted art:
Eurythmy and the Goetheanum examines the relationship of Rudolf Steiner’s architectural impulse to the art of eurythmy. Eugene Schwartz discusses the interplay of the activity on the stage of the Goetheanum with the remarkable colored glass windows and carved concrete walls that surround the stage.
Classic Tone Eurythmy presents an excerpt from Schubert’s Sonata in C in which The Eurythmy Spring Valley Performing Group appears in a panoply of silken veils and colored lighting. Barbara Schneider-Serio, the Group’s artistic director, explains the role played by the veil in tone eurythmy.
Therapeutic Eurythmy has practitioners Miriam Karnow and Michael Widmer describing how eurythmy becomes a therapeutic modality. Miriam speaks of the salutary effect of eurythmy on the elderly with whom she works at the Fellowship Community, while Michael is seen interacting with two Green Meadow Waldorf School students.
In Speech Eurythmy, Barbara Schneider-Serio introduces the Japanese fairy tale Momotaro, the Peach Boy. The Spring Valley Performing Group moves to the words recited by Creative Speech artist Michael Steinrueck, and in an interview Michael discusses Marie and Rudolf Steiner's contributions to the art of creative speech.
Liner Notes by Eugene Schwartz
This DVD was made possible through the generosity of Herbert Hagens and the Hagens Recording Studio, with the intention of benefiting the art of Eurythmy and the Waldorf School movement.
All footage on this DVD was shot in High Definition. In the near future this program will be available in HD-DVD and/or Blu Ray high definition formats.
Credits
Herbert H. Hagens, Producer Sam Russell, Director, Cameraman, and Editor Eugene Schwartz, Script and Consultation Matthew Rybinski, Audio Herbert O. Hagens, Producer, Swiss Unit Hagens Recording Studio, Inc., Post-Production Karen Wyatt, Archivist Elizabeth L. Lombardi, DVD Jacket Design
Waldorf School Teachers Maria Ver Eecke, Green Meadow Waldorf School Tertia Gale, Waldorf School of Princeton Raymonde Fried, Kimberton Waldorf School Wendy Kelly, Green Meadow Waldorf School Bonnie Manaças, Green Meadow Waldorf School Stephen Kotansky, Green Meadow Waldorf School Karen Tallman, Green Meadow Waldorf School
Spring Valley School of Eurythmy Teachers Barbara Schneider-Serio Mollie Amis Brigida Baldszun Michael Steinrueck
Therapeutic Eurythmists Miriam Karnow Michael Widmer
The Goetheanum Stage Ensemble Carina Schmid Elsemarie ten Brink Christina Kerssen Barbara Mraz Michele Polito Rob Schapink Hans Peter Strumm Eduardo Torres Dragan Vuckovic Rhio Iwamatsu Anna Maxatova Nina Skopyntseva
Musicians and Speech Hartwig Joerges, Piano Olaf Marggraf, Piano Tamas Weber, Cello
Backstage Joeri Meijer, Stage Manager Ilja van der Linden, Lighting
Eurythmy Spring Valley Performing Group Jonathan Ackerman – Piano Michael Steinrueck – Speech Artist Julie Schwartz – Lighting
“Sonata in C” Performance Barbara Schneider-Serio Christina Beck Yuko Hara Hsin-Shih Lai
“Momotaro, the Peach Boy” Performance Barbara Schneider-Serio Christina Beck Yuko Hara Hsin-Shih Lai Kenya Mitari Brigida Baldszun
This production would not have been possible without the help of the following individuals and institutions:
Virginia Sease, Executive Council at the Goetheanum Thomas Didden, Goetheanum Stage Group Director Uwe Werner, Director of Goetheanum Documentation
The Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland The Spring Valley School of Eurythmy Green Meadow Waldorf School Kimberton Waldorf School The Waldorf School of Princeton Sunbridge College The Fellowship Community Creative Speech Spring Valley The National Archives Film Center, Washington, D.C. Goetheanum Documentation, Dornach, Switzerland
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