The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1923–1925

GA 277d — 29 June 1924, Dornach

Sound-Eurythmy Course Performance

From the conference with the Waldorf teachers in Stuttgart, June 2, 1924

There is a question about the upcoming eurythmy course. The [eurythmy] teachers and Mr. Baumann would have attended the tone eurythmy course [in February].

[Now] this course is something different from the speech course. I established eurythmy in 1912. Then a number of students came, Kisseleff, Baumann, Wolfram; then a continuation of sorts was formed when a number of eurythmists were there. The first was traditionally carried on by Lory Smits. Then something inhomogeneous came in. This course should be used to start again from the beginning. How far we will get remains to be seen. Now this may be of particular importance. It may well be that, because it is something that needs to be cultivated here in the school, this could lead to the closure of the eurythmy lessons.

The following performances on June 29, July 3, 6, 10, and 13, 1924, took place as part of the eurythmy course (Eurythmy as a Visible Language, GA 279), which ran from June 24 to July 13, 1924. There are no records of the speeches given at the performances.

Grave from the D major Suite by J. S. Bach
“Grenzen der Menschheit” (Limits of Humanity) by J. W. Goethe
“Zum Adam- und Eva-Tag” (On Adam and Eve Day) by Albert Steffen
Étude in F minor, Op. 10, No. 9 by Frédéric Chopin
“An den Mistral” (To the Mistral) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Allegro by G. F. Handel
Prelude in B major by Frédéric Chopin
“Mo-Lennav-a Chree” by Fiona Macleod
Allegro in G minor from the “Devil's Trill Sonata” by Giuseppe Tartini
Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin
“At Midnight” by Eduard Mörike
“Diamonds” by Robert Hamerling
“Love in the Snow” by Robert Hamerling
Allegro in C minor by Johann Ernst Galliard
Allegretto by Ludwig van Beethoven
“The Sorcerer's Apprentice” by J. W. Goethe
Allegro maggiore in G major, K. 301, by W. A. Mozart