Eurythmy

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” –  Plato

Perhaps the same can be said about Eurythmy ! 

Eurythmy is a relatively new movement artform, created by Rudolf and Marie Steiner in the early twentieth century. It is sometimes compared to the new expressive dance styles developed by Isadora Duncan and others at this time, but it is a unique discipline. Eurythmy embodies the sounds and rhythms of music and speech, and has a precise gesture for each tone, interval, vowel and consonant; it is not an expressionist form but seeks to manifest through rhythm, gesture and movement the intricacy of the sound forms of spoken word and music. 

Eurythmy is unique not only as a modern manifestation of sacred or temple dance, but as a modern pathway of self development. For the practitioner it is a way to encounter Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy in a living and embodied way. For its audience, its younger students and those receiving therapy, it is a vehicle for inner and embodied change.

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