Glossary

Eurythmy Stage Lighting in Anthroposophy

Eurythmy stage lighting is the practice, introduced by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in the early 1920s, of flooding the eurythmy stage with changing colour that matches the garments of the...

The Macrocosmic and Microcosmic Dance in Anthro...

The Macrocosmic and Microcosmic Dance in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's pairing of two eurythmic presentation-types according to cosmic scale. In the macrocosmic dance, the planetary dance and the zodiac of...

The Copper-Rod Exercise in Anthroposophy

The Copper-Rod Exercise is the earliest of Steiner's eurythmy rod exercises, performed with copper rods held at full arm-stretch and worked in a sevenfold rhythm. Copper was chosen to lend...

The Hallelujah in Anthroposophy

The Hallelujah in anthroposophy is the first word Rudolf Steiner translated into eurythmy, the art of visible speech. On 22 September 1912, near Munich, he gave the young Lory Smits...

The Eurythmic Form in Anthroposophy

The eurythmic form is the spatial line a eurythmist walks across the stage, the choreographic path that turns a spoken poem or a musical phrase into a visible figure of...

The Renewal of the Ancient Temple Dance in Anth...

The Renewal of the Ancient Temple Dance is the phrase Rudolf Steiner used to place eurythmy within the long history of sacred movement. He understood the new art as a...