Living Light of Color
In this, the final webinar of a four-part series, we reviewed the color gestures for the rainbow colors, and practiced moving them on different eurythmy forms. We then resumed our study eurythmy gestures and sounds, adding T, D, L, and M to an already rich palette. Our study culminated in the integration of many of the sounds we have studied into the St. John's Calendar of the Soul verse, exploring how colors are part of every eurythmy journey.
We expanded our exploration of the "Deeds and Suffering of Light" by including Orange and Violet in this week's class, focusing especially on the different way the colors move---in straight lines or in curves---and the unique quality of muscle tension we feel in each color. Then we turned to a study of the colored drawings created by Rudolf Steiner and his colleague, Edith Maryon for many of the vowels and consonants and soul moods in eurythmy. Each of these drawings shows a triad of colors inherent in the quality of each sound, and these correspond to how we engage our thinking, our feeling and our willing in doing each sound. These are known as the movement, feeling and character, respectively of each sound. We practiced the movements for K,B, ee, ā, and u, In the final moments, we worked again with the Calendar of the Soul verse for St. John's Tide, which is the last week of June.
In this, the second lesson of the series, we continue our joyful exploration of color in eurythmy, by living into gestures for the balancing color of green and the "explosive" color of red. We then began the study of how to incorporate three distinct color qualities into the gesture for each sound in eurythmy, expressing its movement, feeling and character. In this lesson, we focused on EE, OH, B, R and H.
Experience how the essential nature of Color can be beautiful experienced and expressed in the etheric movement art of eurythmy. Speed, intensity, feeling and muscle tension are all involved in color gesture, and all are part of each sound we make visible in eurythmy.