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Steiner EURYTHMY: ITS BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT Here are firsthand accounts by the early eurythmists of the birth of this totally new social art with Rudolf Steiner.
The first question connects the venture with John the evangelist, discoverer of the "Lost Word, " The practical stages, with the artistic material, is here chronicled, with reports from the first public performance onwards, Steiner stimulates the first eurythmists to make their own discoveries, to perceive and fashion in movement the creative "inner Voice, " On this search the artistic principles are established for further unfolding and elaboration, to reveal and foster human creativity in many poetic and musical contexts, Links also emerge to templedances that accompanied early initiations, The impulse to dance is here rediscovered as inherent in the "Lost Word," or the primordial root language still available in "genetic etymology" Novalis the sounds of speech used in all languages.
Music eurythmy, too, did not start from dancing, but from the archetypal structure of the musical system, Consequently, we can directly witness how an eloquent performing art may truly develop where technique and inspiration meet, Steiner was a philosopher, social thinker, architect, and esotericist, Steiner led this movement through several phases, In the first, philosophically oriented phase, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being.
In a second phase, beginning around, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts developing a

new artistic form, eurythmy and architecture, culminating in the building of a cultural center to house all the arts, the Goetheanum.
After the Steiner was a philosopher, social thinker, architect, and esotericist, "Steiner led this movement through several phases, In the first, philosophically oriented phase, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being.
"In a second phase, beginning around, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts developing a new artistic form, eurythmy and architecture, culminating in the building of a cultural center to house all the arts, the Goetheanum.
"After the First World War, Steiner worked with educators, farmers, doctors, and other professionals to develop Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine as well as new directions in numerous other practical areas.
"Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a explicitly spiritual component, He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view, in which 'Thinking is no and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear.
Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas, ' A consistent thread that runs from his earliest philosophical phase through his later spiritual orientation is the goal of demonstrating that there are no essential limits to human knowledge.
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