Quick Look
- A fascinating exploration of the seven planetary gestures in eurythmy
- Reveals how the planetary forces work in different people and explains how eurythmists can harness these forces to bring further creativity into their art
- Written by Werner Barfod, Director of the Eurythmy Academy in the Hague, Netherlands for over 30 years
- Companion book to The Zodiac Gestures in Eurythmy
- Ideal for eurythmy teachers and practitioners who want to deepen their art and spiritual work
Celebrated eurythmist Werner Barfod details the seven planetary gestures in eurythmy and outlines how each expresses a different relationship of the human being to the world. An insightful book which will help eurythmists bring creativity into their art.
Description
Eurythmy is an art form that makes sounds visible through movement. As well as gestures for speech and music, eurythmy also incorporates gestures that relate to the stars and the planets, as indicated by Rudolf Steiner.
In this fascinating book, a companion volume to The Zodiac Gestures in Eurythmy, Werner Barfod describes the seven planetary gestures and how each one expresses a different relationship of the human being to the world. He explains how the planetary forces work in different people, and the meditative development and ways of working that eurythmists need to cultivate to bring creativity into their art.
This book will appeal to eurythmy teachers and practitioners who want to deepen their art and spiritual work.
Author
Werner Barfod was born in Kiel, Germany in 1936. He studied eurythmy at the Goetheanum in Switzerland with Lea von der Pals, and from 1969 to 2000 was the Director of the Eurythmy Academy in the Hague, and of the Netherlands Eurythmy Ensemble, after which he was the leader of the Performing Arts section of the Goetheanum for seven years. He is the author of The Zodiac Gestures in Eurythmy and The Planetary Gestures in Eurythmy.
Sally Lake-Edwards is a eurythmist who has taught in various Steiner-Waldorf schools and centres for adults with special needs in England.
