Eurythmy Spring Valley
Ensemble’s Winter 2025 Tour
During the Winter 2025 Tour from February 14 through March 4, 2025, the Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble is offering public children's performances, and public afternoon and evening performances in five locations of Northern California, and in Austin, Texas.
The ESV Ensemble last shared eurythmy at Austin WS in 2003, and in Northern California in 2016. We’re glad to visit these communities again and perform programs for children and adults.
The evening and afternoon performances
“A Shovel of Stars Overhead: Where to? What next?”
The program includes the poetry of Langston Hughes, Archibald MacLeish, Denise Levertov, and Walt Whitman, and the compositions by Henry Cowell, Grigory Smirnov, Jean Sibelius, Frédéric Chopin, and Antonin Dvorak's final movement of the “Dumky” piano trio.Performances for children with The Frog Prince
The program offers The Frog Prince, a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, and includes a selection of poems and music for children.
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Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 7 pm
Sunday, February 16, 2025, at 7 pm
Bushnell Center at San Francisco Waldorf High School
470 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94127
$25 (adults), $20 (students) plus booking fee
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Thursday, February 20, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Performing Arts Center at Austin Waldorf School
8700 South View Road, Austin, TX 78737
Suggested donations at the door:
$20 (regular), $12 (students and seniors)
For more information, call Austin Waldorf School at (512) 288-5942
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Sunday, February 23, 2025, at 2:30 pm:
Children’s Matinee
Tickets: $15 (purchased in advance), $20 (at the door)
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Sunday, February 23, 2025, at 7 pm:
Evening Performance
Tickets: $28 (purchased in advance), $35 (at the door)
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Don Baggett Theatre at Nevada Union High School
11761 Ridge Road, Nevada City, CA 95959
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 11 am and 1 pm:
Children’s Performances
Tickets: $7-$10 (sliding scale paid by school in advance)
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 7 pm:
Evening Performance
Tickets: $20 - $30 (sliding scale)
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Marin Center Showcase Theater
20 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, CA 94903
For more information, call 831-946-8321 or
email FreeBodySoulSpirit@protonmail.com
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Thursday, February 27, 2025, at 6:30 pm
Tickets Online: $20 (adults), $10 (students)
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Tickets at the door: $25 (adults), $15 (students)
Sophia Hall at Summerfield Waldorf School & Farm
655 Willowside Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
For more information, call (707) 575-7194
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Sunday, March 2, 2025, at 4 pm:
Afternoon Performance
Tickets: $20 cash or check at the door
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Monday, March 3, 2025, at 10:30 am:
Children’s Performance
Tickets: $7-$10
To reserve tickets, contact Lilith Dupuis
at FreeBodySoulSpirit@protonmail.com
Colligan Theater
1010 River Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
For more information, email FreeBodySoulSpirit@protonmail.com
The evening and afternoon performances “A Shovel of Stars Overhead: Where to? What next?” embodies the longing, questioning, and bewilderment that belong to this moment in America, while asking where, from whom, and how something greater can come to be. The program is inspired by the words and compositions of a diversity of artists who poignantly reflect the tensions of their own time. These include the beloved and influential Langston Hughes, statesman Archibald MacLeish, the modern lyric Denise Levertov, and great American bard Walt Whitman. Levertov and other poets in the program orient us to the transcendent presence of the invisible in our midst. Evocative 20th-century American composer Henry Cowell sets the stage, while contemporary composer Grigory Smirnov threads through the tensions to a quieter, inner place. The rich harmonies of Sibelius and Chopin weave past into future, and east into west, leading us to the grandeur, purpose, and elemental urge in Antonin Dvorak's final movement of the “Dumky” piano trio. Written not long before Dvorak’s maiden voyage to America, the trio’s changing harmonies and rhythms seem to anticipate the dawning vistas of a new land, and reflect something of the elusive and vast, young and surging, fighting but maturing American spirit.
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Eurythmy:
Colleen Foglia, Virginia Hermann, Cameron MacArthur,
Wei Rung, Matej Rybka, Sea-Anna Vasilas
Recitation: Carley Horan
Piano: Grigory Smirnov
Violin and Cello: Various musicians at different locations
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If you have any questions, please email marta@eurythmy.org.