Eurythmy Class Day1

(Sit in circle, introduction of Eurythmy)
History of Eurythmy: It is a young art, just 101 year-old.  Much younger than many forms of arts…
Eurythmy has a rich vocabulary of movement and gesture for both speech and musical tone, "scultped air" that arises when speech or music sounds forth.
Sue used the example of words “LOVE” and ask us to pronounce and feel it with gesture.

Sue further introduce: How Eurythmy express, how it cure sickness and problematic children…

Activity number ONE (Body balance)
Stand in circle.
1 meter long, slightly thicker than a pencil diameter copper rods were distributed to everyone.
Balance it on our heads walk forward into the circle and backwards…

hands shoulder apart let the copper rod drop from the head to our arms…
Let the copper rod roll down to the palm and roll back to our shoulder..

“Tell your little students that catch the squirrel don’t let it fall of the tree”
”this is the way climbing up the stairs” Roll the rod up to our shoulder…
”this is the way climbing down the stairs” Roll the rod down to our palm…
Turn your palm facing down while the rod stay above the back of your palm… let the rod roll up to shoulder
(She continue reading the verse.. I can’t remember.. but is really beautiful and calming…)
Rod roll down to back of palm again then turn our palm around holding the rod…

Activity number TWO (Body spaces)
Practice to move in the figure eight with the guidance of the copper road.
Hold the copper road vertical and step the steps of figure eight route, while moving to the left pass the rod to your left hand.. move to right pass the rod to your right hand.
(Some people will follow their nose, some move backwards back to the same point)
Sue encourage everyone not to afraid of the space behind and just move bravely backward not always guided by nose.
She raise a question :”Why is children afraid of moving backwards?”

Activity number THREE (Move with connection)
Still moving in the figure of eight steps… imagine we are all connected with a golden thread.
Steps out to the right imagine you pulling the person on your right.. and the person on your right feel you being pulled..
Still passing the rods between hand following the flow of your movement.. curve to the middle of eight imaginary pull the person on your left…
Stop at the half eight…
Then go backward in the same way.
The whole circle of people move together in the same force, while she recite a verse (I can’t remember the verse but it goes according to our movement very poetically and meditative)

Closing activity
Balance the rod on our head.
One person goes around and collect to rod from behind and the others just tilt their head backwards for the rod to fall straight into that person’s arm.