Course Content

The First Year

During the first few months agility is trained and the sense for language and music is sharpened. Specifically, rod exercises help train physical movement, while geometric forms train one's movement in space.

Through the expressive quality of language, in speech eurythmy, the object is to represent inner experiences. In tone eurythmy the different possibilities of representing melody, rhythm and bar, as well as major and minor scales are practiced.

Courses:

• Speech Eurythmy
• Tone Eurythmy
• Rod Exercises and Geomtric Forms
• Speech Formation
• Music Theory
• Choral Singing
• Anthroposophy
• Form Drawing
• Anatomy
• Metrics und Poetry
• Goetheanism

The Second Year

The impressionistic quality of language and the representation of grammer in speech eurythmy, create a balance to the topics of harmony and interval movements in tone eurythmy.

Courses:

• Speech Eurythmy
• Tone Eurythmy
• Speech Formation
• Choral Singing
• Music Theory
• Anthroposophy
• Anatomy
• Metrics and Poetry
• Painting and "Color-Eurythmy"
• Introduction to Waldorf Education
• Pedagogical Application of the Rod Exercises
• Hospitation in a Waldorf School

The Third Year

The relationship between one's own movement and the surrounding space is now consciously formed and made visible through the introduction of the eurythmy veil. We work with the eurythmy figures designed by Rudolf Steiner. The characteristic movements of elementary beings, which will be applied for example in fairy tales, and the planetary movements and zodiac gestures are practiced. In tone eurythmy the students learn about polyphony, dynamic differentiation and the transformation of modulation and cadence into forms of movement. Each student will give a lecture titled "What is eurythmy?"

Courses:

• Speech Eurythmy
• Tone Eurythmy
• Speech Formation
• Choral Singing
• Music Theory
• Anthroposophy
• Metrics and Poetry
• A General Knowledge of the Human Being as the Foundation of Pedagogy
• Eurythmy Hospitation and Practicum in a Waldorf School
• Introduction into Eurythmy Therapy

The Fourth Year

In speech eurythmy the following topics are explored and practiced: texts from ancient cultures, foreign-languages and modern poems, as well as the movment characteristics of spriritual beings such as Lucifer and Ahriman.

The polyphonic, the dynamic and the orchestral (instruments) element are deepened in tone eurythmy.

Each student writes a diploma thesis on a specific eurythmy topic which is concluded with a presentation and practical demonstration. The training ends with a final eurythmy performance, which is then brought on tour and shown at various locations.

Courses:

• Speech Eurythmy
• Tone Eurythmy
• Speech Formation
• Choral Singing
• Music Theory
• Anthroposophy
• Metrics and Poetry