{"product_id":"the-early-history-of-eurythmy-cw-277c-9781621480723","title":"The Early History of Eurythmy: (Cw 277c)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotebook entries, addresses, rehearsals, programs, introductions to performances, and talks given before 16 eurythmy performances (CW 277c)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe arts either: \u003cbr\u003eArise from observation -- bypassing the concept\u003cbr\u003eor out of experience -- without arriving at a concept. --\u003cbr\u003eEurythmy turns the inner experience of the human being into external movement.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtists have sought impressionism; but nature cannot be grasped in this way, for the senses already forbid mere impressions. One cannot hold fast to the expressions, because the means of representation do not reveal the expressions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEurythmy: \u003cbr\u003eIt is an art form that makes use of the human being as an instrument, of our human capacities for movement as means of expression. Language takes up thoughts. But it brings them into the will.\u003cbr\u003eOnly what flows from the will is artistic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e (entry in a notebook, Dornach, Feb. 14, 1920)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Early History of Eurythmy\u003c\/i\u003e is the first of three volumes of Rudolf Steiner's \"eurythmy addresses,\" short introductory talks preceding the earliest performances of this new art of movement. Of the nearly 300 transcripts that survive, few have thus far been translated into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents, chronologically, the addresses related mostly to drama, generally, and specifically to stage performances of Goethe's \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e and Steiner's mystery dramas. In addition, it features all of Rudolf Steiner's notebook entries on eurythmy, along with all of the extant eurythmy programs from 1913 to 1925, which yield invaluable insights into Steiner's taste and aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederick Amrine's engaging introduction emphasizes that eurythmy is an important episode in the history of dance, but has been unjustly neglected. He contends that eurythmy is a continuation of an aesthetic revolution that began not in Europe but in America; that the original impulses leading to \"new dance\" were deeply spiritual; and that there are deep but largely unrecognized affinities between \"new dance\" and eurythmy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis counter-narrative about the prehistory of eurythmy within the history of dance should be of particular interest to English-speaking anthroposophists, because it identifies the pioneering work of three American women as the all-important context for the development of eurythmy: Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis. Drawing on extensive historical documentation, he states that it is eurythmy rather than modern dance that is the rightful heir of Fuller, Duncan, and St. Denis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Early History of Eurythmy\u003c\/i\u003e is a translation from German of part 3 from \u003ci\u003eEurythmie. Die Offenbarung der sprechenden Seele\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 277).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steiner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621480723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52604409348277,"sku":"9781621480723","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-early-history-of-eurythmy-cw-277c-9781621480723","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}