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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
The San Francisco Youth Eurythmy Troupe will perform their full program DAWN at the Fellowship Community, Chestnut Ridge, NY, on February 17 at 4 pm.
A festival celebrating human pre-existence and the journey toward birth with performances of eurythmy, music, and poetry and a festival address by Sean Goddard, a teacher at the Otto Specht School.
Waldorf High School students from San Francisco, New York City, and Chestnut Ridge are coming together in eurythmy! They will have an experience with the faculty of Eurythmy Spring Valley, and put together two performances—at 1:30 pm and 7 pm— with a rich collection of pieces: with poetry, music, and humor.
Come and enjoy this year's winter studio program. Once again, the members of the ESV Ensemble and eurythmists in the area have been preparing solos, duets, and group pieces, and will offer a rich array of works comprised of speech and tone eurythmy.
The Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble is excited to offer at the Threefold community a pivotal moment in the life story of contemporary activist Julia Butterfly Hill, The Storm, with music by Grigory Smirnov, surrounded by poetry and music by Cowell, MacLeish, Chopin, and Smirnov, ending with lighthearted pieces and a Dvorak trio.
If you are looking for an opportunity to learn more about eurythmy, this class has been developed to help you begin that journey. Regardless of how you first discovered this unique movement art, the natural question is, "What is eurythmy?" In this exploration guided by Sea-Anna Vasilas, faculty and ensemble member of Eurythmy Spring Valley, you will explore that question through movement itself.
Join a group of community members interested in working with seasonal music and poetry through speech and tone eurythmy around the themes of winter.
All are welcome to a celebration of the season with music, choral singing, eurythmy, and featuring a children’s Christmas story, The First Gift, told by Joen Dealande, with a tree lighting and caroling to end.
We invite you to join us in celebrating our students’ work at two festive evenings this December!
The Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble is excited to offer at the Threefold community a pivotal moment in the life story of contemporary activist Julia Butterfly Hill, The Storm, surrounded with poetry and music from Whitman to Hughes, Dvorak to Cowell and Smirnov.
If you are looking for an opportunity to learn more about eurythmy, this class has been developed to help you begin that journey. Regardless of how you first discovered this unique movement art, the natural question is, "What is eurythmy?" In this exploration guided by Sea-Anna Vasilas, faculty and ensemble member of Eurythmy Spring Valley, you will explore that question through movement itself.
Join Clifford Venho to examine the life and work of John Milton (1608–1674), one of the most significant figures in English literature.
An offering of music, eurythmy, poetry, and speech chorus, with a festival address by Harlan Gilbert. Karl Fredrickson will read the names of community members who have died in the past year.
Join a group of community members interested in working with seasonal music and poetry through speech and tone eurythmy around the themes of Advent and Christmas.
