During the Autumn 2026 Tour, the Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble will be sharing public children's and adult performances in five communities in Oregon, Washington, and Colorado.
In our new weekly course for professional eurythmists, Natasha Moss will lead an exploration in the artistic elements of speech eurythmy and prepare a piece to be performed at the ESV Studio Program, January 31, 2026. Join us!
As part of the Threefold centennial celebration, the Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble will present The Joan of Arc Story, Nocturne in c minor by Chopin, and some lighthearted pieces to close the evening.
CALLING EURYTHMISTS: The Center for Anthroposophy is opening the upcoming autumn residency block for experienced eurythmists to attend the in-person session from October 9 to October 13, 2026, in Keene, NH. As eurythmists, we will work with each other dealing with basic elements of Eurythmy in the Working Life and we will also join Waldorf administrators for part of the program.
Join us for eurythmy, speech, music, and a Michaelmas address by Harlan Gilbert. Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble will offer tone eurythmy as well as Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul verses for Michaelmas time and Michael Imagination.
Working with poetry, verses, and music to strengthen and support this process of the turning of seasons, we will find our own eurythmic movement, as well as bringing speech and music to visibility together as a group. A rare opportunity in our time!
A Conference and Performance of Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Drama The Trial of the Soul
Register for Rudolf Steiner’s second Mystery Drama, which portrays the unfolding destinies of a group of karmically connected individuals committed to a path of inner development. With keynote lectures by Daniel Hafner, and participatory artistic workshops in acting with Laurie Portocarrero, in eurythmy with Virginia Hermann, in visual arts by Rüdiger Janisch, in writing by Adeline Lyons, and opportunities for conversation to create our own community of seekers.
Apply NOW for the academic year that begins on September 9, 2026, for the four-year full-time undergraduate training and for the one-year full-time postgraduate training!
Apply by September 15, 2026, for the new Frontier eurythmy part-time class that begins in autumn 2026!
Join the SEW Faculty -- Sea-Anna Vasilas for tone eurythmy, Cameron MacArthur for speech eurythmy, and John McManus for speech and drama -- to celebrate the arts of drama, eurythmy, and speech, and the balancing capacities of these arts together!
Pre-registration required by August 11, 2026!
Come and enjoy special performances at 52 Colors of the Soul Festival.
Advance tickets are available for Sunday morning's performance, and for a discounted package covering all evening performances plus Sunday morning.
Individual tickets will also be available at the door, first come, first served.
Rudolf Steiner composed the calendar to tune the soul as a companion through the year. Later on, he also created eurythmy forms for each verse in variously sized groups. This festival will bring all 52 verses to performance in eurythmy in English, as a U.S. premiere.
We welcome the general public interested in exploring this remarkable progression through lectures and artistic workshops in eurythmy, speech, painting, and plant dyeing.
Come, join us to experience the culmination of this summer's two week eurythmy immersion for high school students and young adults. The program will feature several group pieces, trios, solo work, and humoresques, all created over the course of two weeks. You won't want to miss this special evening!
SAVE THE DATES FOR THE UPCOMING ESV SUMMER 2026 EVENTS!
During the first week, we'll be reviewing the pedagogical eurythmy curriculum for nursery/kindergarten through the seventh grade with John Holmes, a long-time eurythmy teacher, retired from the Kimberton Waldorf School, PA. With Lisa Profumo, a class teacher at the Berkshire Waldorf School, MA, we'll be reading and discussing Christof Wiechert's lectures from the book Teaching, the Joy of Profession.
In the second week, we'll be looking at the eighth-grade curriculum, presented by Patti Regan, eurythmy teacher at the Berkshire Waldorf School, MA. Following that, we'll be immersed in high school eurythmy by Raymonde Fried from Kimberton Waldorf School, PA.
Join us for this school year's spring end-of-term presentation by our second-year and third-year students, and experience what has grown. Come and enjoy! We look forward to seeing you at the Threefold Auditorium.
Join us for a full morning experience of the harmonizing and healing power of eurythmy. This is an intensive half-day of eurythmy to enter the world of poetry and music, and to discover new vistas and insights into oneself—a first introduction for those considering a part-time Frontier or full-time eurythmy training.
You are invited on a journey with Lisa van Holsteijn and Sea-Anna Vasilas, as they share their explorations with eurythmy and hand-made metal sound instruments, forged by pupils of blacksmith and artist Manfred Bleffert, verse and poetry by Rudolf Steiner and Claire Blatchford, and music by Dorothy Haller.
Barbara Hadeljan, a postgraduate ESV student from Croatia, Europe, will present her research on White Cinquefoil (Potentilla alba) in the light of Goethean science, and its healing of thyroid gland.
This spring studio program is built around the work of two postgraduate students from New York and from Croatia, joined by a visiting colleague from the last term, hailing from Germany.
The postgraduate program is surrounded by an abundant crop of solos and duets of all vintages by stage group, local and visiting eurythmists, and speech artists, many pieces among them freshly "hatched."
Join us for an ESV time-honored tradition--THE ANNAL RUMMAGE SALE--that this year will support our students graduating in June 2027 to travel to and perform in Dornach, Switzerland.
Join Clifford Venho to explore the wholeness that arises through a contemplation of the figures of Raphael (1483–1520) and Novalis (1772-1801).
We are delighted to celebrate and honor Grigory Smirnov’s longstanding collaboration with eurythmists. Grigory has worked closely with Eurythmy Spring Valley since 2019, both as a pianist and a composer. Many of his compositions have been performed in eurythmy, and this April, we will bring as many tone eurythmy pieces as possible to visibility on stage. The celebration will also feature Grigory’s talk.
We will explore artistic, therapeutic, and formative speech aspects of the “Concordances” in eurythmy in relation to Rudolf Steiner’s insights shared on December 28, 1923, and Lea van der Pals' Tone Eurythmy Therapy.
How do we come into conversation with the seven planetary gestures and twelve zodiac gestures? How do the vowels and consonants speak through these cosmic beings? Join us for an introduction to the movements and speech of the planets and zodiac in eurythmy.
Join a group of community members interested in working with seasonal music and poetry through speech and tone eurythmy.
Course led by Sea-Anna Vasilas, faculty and ensemble member of Eurythmy Spring Valley.
For individuals with some experience and familiarity with eurythmy.
How can we become an instrument to bring the inaudible experience of music to visibility?
Join us for eight sessions in four weeks as we explore the fundamental elements of beat, rhythm, and melos as a foundation for tone eurythmy.
Join us for the end-of-term sharing by our second-, third-, and fifth-year students, and experience what has grown during these last cold months. Each class had a large and exciting curriculum to tackle in the second term. Come and enjoy! We look forward to seeing you at the Threefold Auditorium.
The Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble will share the ever-moving story of Joan of Arc (1412–1431), with a rich tapestry of original music by Grigory Smirnov. She brings us the almost impossible quest to save her country from the ravages of an occupying army. Yet, her victory is also the beginning of her downfall, leading to her tragic death. In the end, her faith in the spirit sustains her. The story will be surrounded by tone eurythmy and poetry pieces.
Join a group of community members interested in working with seasonal music and poetry through speech and tone eurythmy around the themes of Easter.
Course led by Sea-Anna Vasilas, faculty and ensemble member of Eurythmy Spring Valley.
For individuals with some experience and familiarity with eurythmy.
How can we become an instrument to bring the inaudible experience of music to visibility?
Join us for six sessions in three weeks as we explore the fundamental elements of beat, rhythm, and melos as a foundation for tone eurythmy.
Dorothea Mier is excited to move ahead with the tone eurythmy retreat, taking place for one week, March 1-7, 2026. Dorothea will work with the elements of tone eurythmy, offer open solo sessions, and guide a study. Barbara Schneider-Serio will join Dorothea, working intensively on a tone group form.
We're offering another weekly course for professional eurythmists. Natasha Moss will lead an exploration in the artistic elements of speech eurythmy and prepare a piece to be performed at the ESV Spring Studio Program on May 2, 2026. Join us!
