Light Eurythmy
Rudolf Steiner’s lighting recommendations for eurythmy
A Seminar and Performance with Thomas Sutter and the
Light Eurythmy Ensemble of Dornach, Switzerland
Sponsored by Threefold Educational Foundation and Eurythmy Spring Valley
At the Threefold Auditorium in Spring Valley, New York
May 8 to 10, 2008; starting Thursday evening at 7:30 and ending with a performance on Saturday evening.
On Sunday morning, seminar participants are invited to attend the closing session of the Toward Genuine Tuning conference at no additional cost (see below).
Seminar Fee of $285 includes all workshops and presentations and the Saturday performance.
There is limited scholarship assistance available. For information and registration, contact Mimi Satriano, mimi@threefold.org, 845-352-5020x15
EANA has limited travel assistance available for EANA members wishing to attend the conference. Application should be made to Kathy Kay via letter or email no later than March 31st. Requests should include your name, address, and a listing of your estimated travel expenses. Notification of awards will be sent by April 15th. Please contact Kathy with any questions. Kathy Kay, 36 West Center Road, W. Stockbridge, MA 01266; Phone: 413-232-0294; kykball@hotmail.com
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The Light Eurythmy seminar is open to everyone: eurythmists as well as non eurythmist, theatrical lighting designers, people interested in art, therapists, teachers as well as pupils; for everyone interested in the world of colors and keen to have hands-on experiences with lighting and color.
The art of light eurythmy – a term coined by Rudolf Steiner – was developed according to the laws of eurythmy. The stage space should be transformed by the light in such a way that it becomes a spatially non-spatial environment for the eurythmy. Ideally, the space should appear as if it was an etheric space. [i.e. the physical space should take on the laws of the etheric world.]
Our seminar offers a basic introduction into the lighting impulse of Rudolf Steiner and the creative force of colors. You will gain experience of the effects of light and color on and in space. Through demonstrations, and practical exercises you will experience the laws and wonders of the “flooding of light”.
We invite eurythmists, who have a prepared solo, to experiment with this particular form of lighting. The seminar and performance will take place on a stage hung in plant colored curtains and accompanied by specially tuned instruments.
Themes from the seminar program:
Fundamentals
· Development from stage lighting to light eurythmy
· Light and darkness and the eurythmy “gestalt”, light and darkness in movement
· The lighting desk developed by Steiner and Ehrenfried Pfeiffer
· Polar Euclidian stage space
· Musical time stream in light eurythmy
· Creative force of color
· A new art of light therapy
Light eurythmy and Tone eurythmy
· Using a variety of music we will demonstrate specific indications which Rudolf Steiner gave for the lighting of tone eurythmy.
· Lighting according to pitch, intensity, rhythm and bar line.
Light eurythmy and Speech eurythmy
By means of different examples from Rudolf Steiner’s lighting indications we will demonstrate how he proceeded in the light eurythmy in accordance with the laws of visible speech. We will elaborate on the following subjects:
· Color arising out of speech
· How does a eurythmical lighting mood come about?
· Demonstration of exercises given by Rudolf Steiner
· Question of lighting for the eurythmy preludes and postludes
· Changing the lighting mood with the eurythmy movement
· Color and the elemental periphery
Practical exercises
· How do we find lighting moods – this can best be done practically with prepared solos or group pieces
· Experimenting with lighting for several eurythmy pieces
· We will investigate the effect of lighting on the dress and veil
· What is the moral effect of color?
Task and future impulses
· Light eurythmy and the mission of Michael
· Breathing with light instead of breathing with air – the new yoga path
· What is the effect of plant colors?
· What is the meaning of after images?
· What does light eurythmy want in the future?
Sponsored by Threefold Educational Foundation and Eurythmy Spring Valley For information and registration contact Mimi Satriano, mimi@threefold.org, 845-352-5020x15
Toward Genuine Tuning
Second annual conference will be taking take simultaneously Thurs. eve. through Sun. noon.
The mood achieved within the stage space by this form of lighting calls for a sound which is softer, more pliable, more colorful than given by the usual equal tempered tuning. Bevis Stevens, troupe member and composer, has worked many years researching this area. He’s interested in expanding the expressiveness of music, as well as finding a greater differentiation in the eurythmy gesture, through the subtle changes in tuning the instruments developed by Maria Renold using the concert pitch indicated by Rudolf Steiner of A-432. The result is a tuning wherein each key has a unique quality and has been described as a ‘relief’ in comparison to the ‘flat map’ of equal tempered tuning. Or, as one reviewer put it, “Through this tuning the music sounded deeply human: one felt oneself released and not so ‘brilliantly tensed’ as with the usual higher concert pitch.”
The Light Eurythmy Ensemble is the only one in the world to use both the new lighting and the new tuning. Their program includes poetry and music by: Aeschylus, Macleod, Morgenstern, Shakespeare, Steiner, Waitaha, Chopin, Debussy and Stevens and will be accompanied by piano and lyre.
For more information on Toward Genuine Tuning, contact: Laura Langford Schnur, langfordschnur@frontiernet.net