The Art of Eurythmy

As a movement art eurythmy brings the essence of music and language to visible manifestation. We not only hear the words and music but they become visible to our eyes. Through deliberate, sculpted gestures, sounds take physical form. Eurythmy is not interpretive of music and poetry. It is a true sounding or singing through the body as an instrument. Eurythmy, a relatively young art form, was developed a little over 80 years ago. Today, it is performed worldwide by professional eurythmists who have completed a five year program at one of over twenty schools. Eurythmy takes its start from the view that all art is the revelation of concealed laws of nature. The experience of the inmost soul is brought forth and unfolds before us in motion, gesture, color and space. He derived his epistemology from Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view, where “Thinking… is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas.”[7] Life is movement, breath. It is never still, be it a quiet breeze or the rush of a wave. It is ever changing, weaving and pulsing through the world. Eurythmy is movement - Harmonious breathing living movement. "Eurythmy can be perceived as a moving sculpture. What is expressed when the human being is in movement is the human soul when it is stirred." - Rudolph Steiner