The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1912–1918

GA 277a — 18 July 1915, Dornach

Program Poster

With the performance on July 18, 1915, which according to the performance diary (GOE) was considered a “belated St. John's Day celebration,” regular eurythmy performances began, which took place almost weekly a little later. Previously, artistic performances had only taken place at the annual festivals. In the early years, Hilde Pollak designed the program posters. Alice Fels writes: “Rudolf Steiner himself provided inspiration for the weekly program pictures: through painterly sketches, concise and characterizing titles, and little sayings.” “As long as the eurythmy performances took place in the carpentry workshop, a picture poster was attached to the cross wall at the entrance under a lamp, for which Rudolf Steiner provided a characteristic word and, on a few occasions, a four-line verse, which he gave to me to take to the painter Hilde Pollak-Karlin, who created the picture program.”

Hilde Pollak, program poster for the performance

First movement of Haydn's Symphony in B major / Scene from the Gate of Initiation: Mrs. Balde. Spirit of the Elements. German
Musical intermezzo / Songs by Goethe in eurythmic performance / Like and Like / Swiss Song / The Violet / With a Colored Ribbon / May Song. / Heather Rose. / Found / In Summer / Premature Spring
Andante from the symphony to the comedy Il Distratto by Haydn.
Songs by Goethe / Calm Sea and Happy Voyage. / Chorus of Gnomes from “Faust” / The Son of the Muses / Gypsy Song.