Eurythmy

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We are born out of spirit. In our minds, our hearts, and our bodies we bear the imprint of Spiritual Word and Music. In eurythmy, word and music become visible through our articulate gestures.

Rudolf Steiner College offers a full-time, four-year eurythmy training which culminates in a diploma certifying the graduate to work as an artist and as a eurythmy teacher in Waldorf schools. New courses are begun every second year. Our next cycle will begin in September, 2010. If you are an artist, whether you are a performer, a teacher or a healer, this may be the training for you!

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"Eurythmy as a Transformative Art"

The Curriculum

In the first two years, classes are held four days a week; in the third and fourth years, they are held five days a week. The eurythmy training is integrated into other courses at Rudolf Steiner College, so students can study with the talented and diverse college faculty. Graduates will be prepared to work in adult education, as freelance artists, and as eurythmy teachers in Waldorf schools. We also invite students who would like to explore eurythmy as a journey of self-transformation even without the intention of becoming professional eurythmists to join us for the first one or two years of the training.

Performance Opportunities

Twice a year students share their work with the college community. These beautiful evenings help the students hone their skills as performing artists. Check our calendar of events for dates of their performances.

Preparation for Waldorf Teaching

Many graduates of eurythmy training go on to become eurythmy teachers in Waldorf schools. Beginning in the second year of the eurythmy training at Rudolf Steiner College, students will visit Waldorf schools. Through observation and study of the Waldorf curriculum (K-12), eurythmy students will experience how the integration of the curriculum and eurythmy helps to support the physical, emotional, social and cognitive growth of the child as first envisioned by Rudolf Steiner. Our graduates are awarded a diploma which certifies that they have been trained to teach eurythmy to children in Waldorf schools.

Our Sponsor School

This program is sponsored by the Eurythmeum in Stuttgart, Germany, in cooperation with its director, Michael Leber. We are in the process of applying for recognition by the Section for Performing Arts at the Goetheanum, and operate with their friendly encouragement.

Faculty Profile

Cynthia Hoven, MA

Program Director, Eurythmy

Cynthia Hoven was born in the United States and has traveled extensively around the world. She expresses appreciation for the huge variety of human experiences that she was fortunate to live into through immersion in many different cultures. In her university studies, Cynthia studied math, physics and psychology, although her core interest was pursuing an understanding of the worlds of spirit and matter. In 1975 her quest led her to the works of Rudolf Steiner, and she perceived that in eurythmy she would have a means of working with spiritually attuned movement in the realm of healing. She received her eurythmy diploma from the Goldridge Eurythmy School in Auburn, California in 1979, and then traveled to the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, where she joined the stage group for two seasons. In 1982, she received her diploma in Therapeutic Eurythmy from Stuttgart, Germany, and has worked since then in hospitals, clinics and private practices. In 1992, she became the director of the Weekend Foundation Studies program at Rudolf Steiner College, and assumed responsibility for teaching all the eurythmy classes at RSC in 1994. She continues to perform, lecture and teach classes in public and private venues, and is working on a book about the spiritual origins of eurythmy. Following a dream she has long held, Cynthia founded the eurythmy training at Rudolf Steiner College in 2002.

Reg Down

Eurythmy Faculty

Reg Down was born in Canada and grew up in Africa and Europe. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London, England under Keith Critchlow, and explored painting, poetry and sculpture before discovering the work of Rudolf Steiner and deciding to be a eurythmist. He studied with Molly von Heider at Emerson College, England, before completing his training under Margarete Proskauer-Unger at the Nürnberg Eurythmie Schule in Germany. Since then he has brought eurythmy to Waldorf schools and their communities in Australia, Canada and the USA. In 1984, he founded the first high school eurythmy stage troupe in North America, which performed extensively in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of Leaving Room for Angels: Eurythmy and the Art of Teaching (AWSNA Press 1995 and 2004); two children’s books: The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly and The Festival of Stones (Trafford Publishing 2004 and 2005); with a third forthcoming—as well as numerous articles on eurythmy, Waldorf education and anthroposophy. He is currently working on a book on color and gesture based on his research into eurythmy figures. He has been a faculty member at Rudolf Steiner College since 1999.