A Weekend Public Workshop for both Professionals and Lay Eurythmy Enthusiasts

Friday, October 25, 2024, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Saturday, October 26, 2024, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Large Room at School of Eurythmy
289 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977

Workshop Fee: $100
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Upward – Downward (“Ascension” / “End Times”), Backward – Forward (“Conservative” / “Liberal”), Right – Left (“Republican” / “Democrat”) – no matter where we look we seem drawn into mutually exclusive interpretations of the direction society is headed and the polarities threaten to tear our world in two – if not twelve! How can eurythmy provide tools to help us find our way through these differences to a dynamic state of balance? How, through experiencing and accepting contrast, can we approach a higher unity? How can we learn to understand and thereby potentially will to love something at first totally foreign to us?

This workshop is a continuation of the themes touched upon in Jan’s previous visit “Rudolf Steiner's Cultural Epoch Indications for Eurythmy as a Path to Tolerance” but is open to all with no prerequisites. Perhaps it is not by chance that, without becoming political, this course falls just days before the US elections. It may help us discern what can be achieved through positive action and accept with equanimity what cannot.

Born in the USA, Jan Ranck studied music and comparative arts at Indiana University in Bloomington. She accompanied the London Stage Group on their 1976 USA tour and went on to study eurythmy with Lea van der Pals at the Eurythmeum in Dornach, where she subsequently taught. In 1984, she joined the faculty of The London School of Eurythmy. She left there to complete a training in eurythmy therapy in Stuttgart in 1989, then moved to Israel, where she founded and directed the Jerusalem Eurythmy Ensemble (1990) and the Jerusalem Academy of Eurythmy (1992), and taught in the Jerusalem Waldorf Teacher Bachelor Program in David Yellin Academic College (from 1999). Jan has held Master Classes at various venues worldwide, including the Goetheanum and the MA program in Eurythmy held at Emerson College in Great Britain and Eurythmy Spring Valley in New York. She is the representative for Israel in the International Eurythmy Therapy Forum.

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For more information, email info@eurythmy.org
or call Eurythmy Spring Valley at 845-352-5020, ext. 113.