PRESENT-DAY WORK in Eurythmy
Most recently, in September 2003, I put together a talk and combination demonstration/performance of eurythmy for a departmental retreat. I was assisted by my colleague, Oleg Minin, who spoke the Russian poems I danced in eurythmy. John Bowlt was gracious enough to share the stage with me, speaking about Kandinsky and color.
It was an opportunity for me both to look again at many of my experiences teaching and performing eurythmy in Moscow, as well as to endeavor to explain this little-known art to those who had heard little, or nothing, about it. Above all, it was a chance for me to focus on something I truly love: dancing Russian poems in eurythmy. I interspersed the poems by Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva I'd chosen with preludes of Scriabin, listed on the program itself.
The photos here are of the program when it was repeated in Pasadena at the Rudolf Steiner Community Center, October 4. It was performed on a stage with lights. On the departmental site is an excellent overview of the retreat, as well as a video of one of the poems. I have to admit that the video doesn't really communicate the essence of the poems and the eurythmy, but can give an idea of what occured. The photos I've placed here do an excellent job of communicating what the art of eurythmy has to offer in color and movement.