The planned first-year intake, to launch the new accredited four-year eurythmy training (awarding level 5, BA equivalent, through EdExcel), will now begin in Stourbridge 2011, not, as previously announced, in Stroud. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE. There were insufficient firm applications by our deadline date this summer to start this autumn 2010.
For 2010-11, the fourth-year students will finish in our campus in Stourbridge. Saraphir, our second-year student, has opted to continue for this year, also in Stourbridge. Maren offers an intense course for serious enquirers.
Maren also plans more outreach this year with her programme ‘Water Islands’ with Geoffrey Norris (speaker/actor) and Alan Stott (piano). This programme celebrating English poetry, mainly from the C20th, with music by Debussy, is arranged as a conversation between speech, music and eurythmy. We accompany a search for the source of inspiration in the WORD itself`; for the gesture, music and tone-colour in poetry.
“Let us hope that this kind of fluid and highly imaginative concept – banishing the endless “ons-and-offs” with long pauses – will gain more and more friends. The creating of an organically evolving tapestry of sound, colour and movement must surely have a secure future” (from the review by Christopher Cooper of the premiere, Dornach, 4th August).
‘Water Islands’ performances:
Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT (nr. Baker St. tube station), 28 August, 3.45 pm;
Peredur Centre for the Arts, East Grinstead, Sussex, RH19 4NF, 9 October, 8.00 pm;
Alanus Hochschule, D-Alfter/Bonn, 2 October, 12.00, shortened version as part of a movement festival ‘Eurythmie und Performance 2010’;
Lehr Theatre, Glasshouse College, Stourbridge, W. Midlands, Friday 22 October, shortened version for the Glasshouse students;
Lehr Theatre, Glasshouse College, Stourbridge, W. Midlands, DY8 4HF, Saturday 23 October, 7.30 pm, full programme for the public.
You can see snippets from the dress rehearsal for the premiere of ‘Water Islands’, in Dornach, on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKLahI2f0aY
Also on Youtube are three pieces by the previous 4th-year students performing in Witten (links on this site, or google: Eurythmy West Midlands).
The eurythmy stage-group, Moving Tales, is touring with ‘Harap Alb’, a story from Romania, to schools and other venues.
Performances of ‘Harap Alb’:
17 September, Elmfield School, Stourbidge 11.00 am; Glasshouse College 3.00 pm;
12 November, Hereford Waldorf Academy (am), Camphill Community, The Grange, Newnham, Glos. 7.30 pm;
26th Nov. Freeman College, Sheffield, 3.00 pm.
23rd April, Sat. Cotswold Playhouse, Stroud, 3.30 pm
All enquiries for ‘Water Islands’ and ‘Harap Alb’ eurythmywm@gmail.com