Letter from the guest editor

The arts are transformative. Ask any artist how creative activity can become a discipline. Even more so, the anthroposophical arts have the potential to transform one’s perceptions, by working with renewed spiritually imbued concepts.

We can look back on decades of developing anthroposophical arts. The Visual Arts are well represented. Arts that involve music or movement have a verbal heritage, as the first artistic performances were not recorded. Music, eurythmy, speech and drama flowed into the ether of the earth. These are the Time Arts. The artists rehearse tirelessly for extended periods of time before performance. The audience is necessary for the artists to give away their creations. A space is created from the activity on stage to the receptive onlookers, who bear witness. Souls across the threshold are interested in our heart-felt, well worked efforts to present (and to represent) an artistic experience. Through the dark clouds of humanity’s conflict and disassociation, we artists hope that our efforts rise upward to the stars!

Thank you to everyone who submitted articles and reviews for being human. Together we create a chalice for the soul and spirit to communicate.

This year is the Centennial of the Speech and Drama course and the Section for the Performing Arts hosts an international conference at the Goetheanum, July 1014, 2024. Let us know how you will celebrate the Performing Arts of Anthroposophy.

Therapeutic eurythmist Maria Ver Eecke holds a diploma from the Medical Section of the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, and is certified by AnthroMed. In July 2022 she joined the faculty of Kairos Institute, Waldorf Pedagogy for Traumatized Children. Previously, Maria taught eurythmy for forty years in Waldorf schools, at a statefunded independent school, and in a home-school program; she was also a class teacher in the Maseru English Medium Preparatory School in southern Africa. Currently Maria edits the newsletters of the Eurythmy Association of North America and the Association of Therapeutic Eurythmy in North America; she can be reached at editor@ eana.org.