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Cancelled due to unforseen circumstances

Peredur Eurythmy presents:

'The Dance Weaves under the Fire - Thorn’

Elemental Realms and Human Destiny entwined

Suggested donation at the door: £18 supporter, £15 full, £12 concession.

Adapted from Mark Twain

A Theatre Research Project

With actors Jan Martin & German Segal
Directed by Christopher Marcus
Dramaturgy by Andrew Upton

Last year was the 100 th anniversary of a series of lectures given to actors by Rudolf Steiner in 1924, known as the Speech and Drama Course. Steiner died six months later and was unable to further develop his indications to actors himself. His wife Marie Steiner, herself an actress, continued to work with the actors (particularly on the indications for speech) and Michael Chekhov went on to develop his own acting techniques inspired by Steiner, who he had met. However, the Course itself remains largely unknown and untested beyond a narrow circle of practitioners.

Our project began in March last year with the aim of researching anew the efficacy of Steiner’s Speech and Drama Course with actors as yet unfamiliar with it, via the process of creating a piece of theatre using his indications. A four-month training and devising process concluded in The Diaries of Adam and Eve - a dramatized synthesis of Mark Twain`s texts Adam’s Diary (1893) and Eve’s Diary (1905). In July we were invited to perform this piece at an international Theatre Festival at the Goetheanum, Switzerland, marking the centenary of Steiner’s lectures on speech and drama at the place where he had given them.

A year later, in this second edition of The Diaries of Adam and Eve with a new actor, we have been able to further research Steiner’s indications to actors. We have especially explored what Steiner calls ‘sound gestures’ and ‘sound qualities’, through which the actor allows the gestures and qualities of speech sounds to replace his/her subjective emotion in an artistic unity of sense and sensibility.

The production plans to tour in the autumn to various countries including Finland, Poland, Italy and UK.

From a review of The Diaries of Adam and Eve, July 2024

‘The undeniable modernity of what otherwise might remain a sacred myth shone through the whole conception of this production. The acting managed to transcend what could so easily have been the limitations of the expected male-female paradigm into a human representation of entirely natural masculine and feminine archetypes, at the same time delicately personal.’ — Andrew Wolpert

Tickets: £15/£10 at the door, Runtime: 1 hour

With composers Nigel Osborne, Howard Skempton and Jinny Shaw
Together with Maren Stott and Eurythmy West Midlands

In the centenary year of Rudolf Steiner’s death, this Festival celebrates the dynamic relationship between Music and Eurythmy.    

Eurythmy, an expressive movement art, was originated by Rudolf Steiner in the early 20th century. The word eurythmy stems from Greek roots meaning beautiful or harmonious rhythm. A eurythmy performer moves the music itself, the inner dynamic, the emotional expressiveness. In an ensemble, the interplay of the instruments, the piece itself, is present before your eyes.  

PROGRAMME  

14.00 Opening - Adrian Locher

14.15 Meet the composers: Nigel Osborne, Howard Skempton and Jinny Shaw

15.00 Panel discussion with composers and Maren Stott: The Grail theme in Music and Eurythmy

16.00 Tea-break

16.30 Rudolf Steiner’s Art impulse and the birth of Eurythmy - Coralee Frederickson and Christopher Marcus

17.15 Eurythmy demonstration - Maren Stott & Eurythmy West Midlands

17.45 Supper

19.00 Performance: 

The performance includes works inspired by the Grail theme by composers Nigel Osborne, Howard Skempton and Jinny Shaw, as well as pieces by Shostakovich and Scriabin. Eurythmy is by Maren Stott & Eurythmy West Midlands. The performance lasts 75 minutes.


Festival Ticket: £30, £20 conc.  

Performance only: £20, £15 conc.

Book here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-xmgjdll

As our environment becomes more digital, new technologies are reshaping and challenging our traditional ways of interacting with our creative tools.

In an era dominated by AI and automation, how can we actively engage with and question these new tools?

Can we shape them to meet our needs and expand our understanding of their impact?

Rather than seeing AI as a threat to human creativity, how can we engage with it critically - harnessing it as a tool for deeper understanding while challenging dominant power structures and advocating for ethical innovation?

This one-day experience, combining lectures and interactive workshops, explores the human drive towards artistic and technological expression, affi rming that human creativity is not only necessary to our evolution but an essential act of meaning-making.

Through artistic engagement, ethical reflection, and deep inquiry, participants are invited to explore the dynamic interplay between analogue and digital, where creativity finds new forms of expression.

Participants will engage in a hands-on drawing and writing workshop, where their live creations will be augmented with AI-enabled tools, leading into a broader group discussion.

Join us in this exploration of creativity as a vital force - one that has always defi ned, challenged, and expanded what it means to be human.

Recent master graduates from UAL’s course on Design for Art Direction, with thesis focused on digital world and AI, Maria Catalano and Leon Ferretti, will be leading the sessions.

Maria Catalano will introduce the concept of creative necessity, and expand on how our tools, both traditional and digital, shape our creativity, reflecting our evolving needs and expanding our capacity for expression.

Leon Ferretti will guide us through an insightful ecological analogy for new technologies, exploring the relationship between the analogue and digital realms, for a collective investigation into AI and its potential implications.

Price £35 (concessions £20, students £10)

To book a place: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-rpvklvg

If you wish to attend but have financial restrictions, please contact Adrian at adrian@marylebonetheatre.com

with Mary Beattie

Become an infant massage instructor with the International Association of Infant Massage. The most fulfilling work, contributing to a better world.

Training is at Rudolf Steiner House in London with Mary Beattie (IAIM international trainer and Massage in Schools instructor).

Book now by contacting Mary: mary@babyandchildmassage.co.uk or 07528589859

www.babyandchildmassage.co.uk

Shakespeare Week at Rudolf Steiner House London

A pair of twins emerge from the ocean.  Parted by a storm and shipwreck, each is sure the other is drowned as they come separately ashore on the coast of Illyria.  Beneath their outwardly confusing similarity, their different destinies lead them into the same social psychic disorder which at first they unwittingly compound.  The tenuous symmetry of the plot embraces illusion and misrule, and justly leaves some unfinished business at the end that reflects the disparate beginning.

Twelfth Night leads us from the innocence of the Early Comedies into the well-known experiences of the Tragedies.  The less well-understood ambiguous, confused, social, personal, and gender realities of that transition expose an entertaining but tragic chaos. This play picks up a teasing loose end from As You Like It, and leaves a bitter remainder for Hamlet.  The counter-intuitive polarities remind us of the excesses of the Saturnalia and reveal what is often hidden by the norms of convention.  The questions the play poses about identity, delusion, recognition, and destiny all relate timelessly to our individual and social experience today.

Sarah Kane and Andrew Wolpert will be offering speech, drama workshops, close study of the text, lectures, discussions, and a visit to see a production of the play at The Globe Theatre.

The course fee of £465 includes a Groundling theatre ticket, morning coffee and afternoon tea.

For the timetable, more information, and to register please contact Andrew Wolpert   andrewjwolpert@gmail.com

Rudolf Steiner House        35 Park Road      London NW1 6XT

Meeting Pain through Art, Celebrating Creativity

A day of artistic workshops and sharing in the centenary month of the horrific accident and sustained injuries of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo

‘To be an artist is to believe in life.’ Frida Kahlo

A choice of workshops:

Creative Writing with poet & co-leader of The School of Storytelling Henrietta Bowen

Drama with Olivier Nominated actress Melody Grove

Painting with artist Ilona Pimbert

Singing with Musician & Singer Andrew Thompson

The Art of Being Present with mindfulness teacher Tamzin Muir

Followed by a sharing from the workshops and conversation

Fee: £40.00 - some bursaries available

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-eaearyj

Contact Louise at: lfc@listntell.co.uk

Banner image: Roots by Frida Kahlo 1943

with Marko Pogačnik and Ying Li

A 9-month programme with 5 weekends: 28 February-2 March, 11-13 April, 13-15 June, 12-14 September and 7-9 November 2025

Geomancy as a creative dialogue with Gaia has made profound developments after entering the third millennium when the intense process of Earth changes started. More than ever, we need a new approach to geomancy with practical experiences and theoretical insights related to the upcoming multidimensional Earth cosmos and the different kinds of beings sustaining its permanent transformations. In this course we will practice methods of Earth healing and subtle perception exercises with special emphasis on the creative language of the body and its artistic expression. Beginners and experienced geomancy practitioners are both welcome.

The training will be led by Marko Pogačnik assisted by Ying Li with fieldwork in the vicinity of London and one residential weekend at Emerson College, Sussex.

28 February- 2 March: In London taught by Marko Pogačnik

11-13 April: In London taught by Ying Li

13-15 June: At Emerson College, Sussex taught by Marko Pogačnik

12-14 September: In London taught by Ying Li

7-9 November: In London taught by Marko Pogačnik

A certificate of completion in Geomancy Updated is given at the end of the training course.

Marko Pogačnik (1944) UNESCO Artist for Peace from Slovenia has developed a method of Earth healing based upon geomantic knowledge, using cosmograms carved in stone. He has led education in geomancy in Germany, England, Hungary, Italy, USA, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia. His latest books: Dancing with the Earth Changes and Creating Gaia Culture. www.markopogacnik.com

Ying Li, originally from Hong Kong and based in London, is a geomancer, bodyworker, inner dimensions guide and facilitator of co-creative meditation and dance alchemy. Ying is part of the organising team of LifeNet, the international network for life, geomancy and transformation. https://embodying.earth

Cost: full price £1375, concessions £1225. Booking deposit: £250

Early booking is advisable due to group size limitations. The course price includes entrance fees to sites. Accommodation, meals and transport are booked separately.

For booking and additional information: https://embodying.earth/events/geomancy-updated

Music Poetry Storytelling

with Louise Coigley

Honouring the centenary of Frida Kahlo’s accident 17 September 1925

Storyteller, speech & language therapist and spinal injury survivor Louise weaves her own fractured journey into a powerful and poetic narrative of perseverance and healing. Born with clubfeet, as a child Louise develops scoliosis.

After years of treatment for her legs & feet and back, being stretched, moulded, winched and strapped, then undergoing spinal surgery, Louise emerges out of the cocoon of a spinning bed. Years later, in extreme pain, she encounters Frida Kahlo’s paintings, learns about her life, her loves. Louise finds recognition and a new way to navigate pain: through creativity. With humour and humanity, tales from these two women’s lives interweave.

Accompanied by Olivier nominated actress Melody Grove and Aly Macrae, actor & musician of stage and screen, “Back to Back” unfolds with poignant, uplifting singing & music. Melody also speaks “From the Frocks”- a powerful new prose poem by Louise.

www.lisntell.co.uk
Book Tickets: £20
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-eaearyj

Lecture by Thomas Mayer

At every moment we are surrounded and permeated by angels of the nine hierarchies.

How can we differentiate the nine angelic hierarchies?

How do the angels work in our lives and in our aura?

How does our angel accompany us in our sleep and after death?

What is a landscape angel?

How do angels express themselves in families or social communities?

How do angels experience us humans?

Thomas Mayer is a Meditation teacher, civil rights activist, and author of “Answering the Call of the Elementals” published by Findhorn Press, “Overcoming Fear - Exercises for Spiritual Self-Defense” and “Covid Vaccines from a Spiritual Perspective”.

https://www.anthroposophische-meditation.de/english

£15 cash on the door.

For further information please call Alex Wright on 01342 827967

Thomas will be leading a workshop on Anthroposophical Meditation focussed on connecting to the Angelic World, at Emerson College from 7pm Friday 26th September to 12.30pm Sunday 28th September.

Please see https://calendar.emerson.org.uk/events/connecting-with-the-angelic-world/ for full details.

Lecture and Performance by Steffen Hartmann

What can we make of spiritual experiences? Do they happen to us, or are they invented by us? How can we distinguish between reality and illusion in such perceptions? Can there be a scientific basis for approaching this issue?

Steffen Hartmann has addressed this question directly and will show how the anthroposophical path of personal development begins with pure thought and meditation, and ends in spiritual experience - the ability to access, as conscious, mindful individuals, the realm of angelic beings.

Steffen Hartmann (b.1976) has accompanied Elisabeth Schwarzkopf on the piano, and worked closely with the soprano Marret Winger. In 2007 he founded the MenschMusik Insitute in Hamburg with Matthias Bölts. He has followed an inner meditative path based on anthroposophy since 1997 and has worked as a teacher of meditation. He founded the publishing house Edition Widar with Torben Maiwald, and has led the Rudolf Steiner Haus Hamburg branch of the Anthroposophical Society since 2012. He is also the author of many books including “The Michael Prophecy and the Years 2012-2033” (2020), and holds lectures and conducts seminars and concerts worldwide.

£15 cash on the door.

For further information please call Alex Wright on 01342 827967

On this UK mini-tour Steffen will lecture at Emerson College on the evening of Saturday 11th October, and both lecture and perform at the Christian Community in Stroud on the afternoon of Sunday 12th October.

His new book, “Angel Thinking - Consciousness, Meditation and Human Destiny” will be published by Temple Lodge on 21st April 2025.

* Postponed

Shakespeare’s play, a meditation for healing relationship

An embodied exploration with Adam Fotheringham

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s last and most moving plays. It shares with the other late plays a preoccupation with loss and redemption. In the story King Leontes, acting out of blind jealousy, tyrannically destroys his family and happiness, but his shattered world is redeemed by time, destiny and a process of inner atonement. In this divisive age of polarising perspectives and conflicting narratives, how can we work to heal the relational rifts that threaten our human fellowship? This deeply spiritual play points both to causes of conflict in human interaction, and to the path of repair and reconciliation available if we choose to take it. Participants will be introduced to the story, which will become a lens for examining their own conduct in relationship. Through dialogue, group reflection and embodied exercises, participants will have opportunities to work with their own relationship history in a context that is strongly held, confidential and holds a possibility for healing.

Adam Fotheringham has a background in theatre as an actor, director and teacher, but now works predominantly in personal and leadership development. He is a Programme Lead and Archetypal Coach with Olivier Mythodrama, using story as a tool for developing individuals in leadership and life.

Cost £65 (£50 concessions)

Book via: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-krnzkpl

*Originally advertised as 18th May