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.
Hygienic Eurythmy for personal well being
Artistic Eurythmy on Stage
Pedagogical Eurythmy in schools
Therapeutic Eurythmy in curative homes and hospitals, and for individuals
Eurythmy for Social development in organisations and communities
Birth of Eurythmy in India
The impulse of Eurythmy came to India with Aban and Dilnawaaz Bana receiving their training in Switzerland and bringing that into the Waldorf education movement in India. In addition to Eurythmy experiences in the Khandala training and the Steiner Education courses run in Mumbai, they also started a training programme with the intention of carrying this work forward. It is on their initiative that we have 24th September marked as World Eurythmy Day. This seed, sprouted with renewed forces coming from the UK, to start a formal, five year part time training programme in Eurythmy on the Indian soil in October 2016. With the blessings from the Bana sisters, assistance from Jayesh and Indira of Prerana Waldorf School – the Eurythmy school began to take its root. The training attracted students from different backgrounds, not only from India, but Asia – with Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia,Taiwan.
The nomadic nature of running the modules in different cities has allowed more people and communities to come into the fold and build grounds both for the graduating Eurythmists to carry the work forward and for building curiosity for more students to come in and keep this stream alive. We believe that this is only the beginning of a flourishing story with the hope of having Eurythmy become a part of every Waldorf school in India.
“True art has always been born out of human hearts able to open themselves to the impulses coming from the spiritual world, human hearts which felt compelled to realise these impulses and to embody them in some way in external matter”. GA 279
We are now ready to open up the intake of a fresh batch of Eurythmists, please reach us at eurythmyindia@yahoo.com for more details.
List of Eurythmy practitioners in India:
Dilnawaz Bana
Aban Bana
Dr. Bindu Gupta (Mumbai) – starbindugupta@gmail.com
Ramya Seshadri (Mumbai) – ramya.sesha3@gmail.com
Deepa Mahesh (Bengaluru) – deepa_mahesh2001@yahoo.com
Meeta Grovor (Hyderabad) – mgrovor@gmail.com
Preeti Birla Nair (Mumbai) – preetibns@gmail.com
Sejal Mehta (Mumbai) – sejal.j.mehta@gmail.com
Vijayata (Hyderabad) – visiblether@gmail.com
Kanchi Kailasam – Chennai / Akkarayankulam, Sri Lanka – kasturiranganroad@gmail.com
Sathyasree Subramanian Bangalore/ Karnataka sathyasreets@gmail.com
Augustine Thilak – Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India – augustineandart@gmail.com
Shrishtee Manral – Bangalore India, shrishtee.manral@gmail.com
Vaibhav Gupta – Mumbai, India vaibhav.imdr@gmail.com