The Zodiac Gestures in Eurythmy

Contents

• Foreword by Virginia Sease
• Preface Out of the Creative Chaos
• 1. The Zodiac in Eurythmy The cosmic human being in the zodiac The gestures of the day and night colours The origin of the archetypal colour gestures The artistic elements and the colour zodiac gestures Archetypal straight line and spiral tendencies in t
• 2. The Consonants in the Zodiac The consonants as an echo of the cosmic formative forces The six single and the six double sounds The essence of the sound as a complete entity Aries and the sound V Taurus and the sound R Gemini and the sound H Cancer and
• 3. The Composition of the Totality of the Zodiac The three crosses of the zodiac The six axes and their polarities The trines of the four elements in the zodiac The post-Atlantean sequence of cultural epochs The threefold human being within the zodiac
• 4. Forces of Order in the Sounds of the Zodiac The sequence of consonants The evolutionary sequence in the zodiac The eurythmy figures The spatial experience of form in the sounds of speech
• 5. Rudolf Steiner's Twelve Moods The twelve zodiac verses The three verbal moods Special features of a eurythmy performance The sequence of planets within the zodiac verse
• 6. The Zodiac as the Source of All Created Things Insights into the zodiac given by Rudolf Steiner The effects of the zodiac on the forming of human beings The twelve senses in the zodiac
• 7. Work-Based Movement and Sound in the Zodiac
• Introduction to the next three chapters Traditional work-based movements and sounds Work and movement - music and speech The human being in movement and eurythmy Human work in relation to the course of the year
• 8. The Zodiac and Technology Twelve styles of technology The one-sidedness of the zodiac animals as formative forces
• 9. Conversational Gestures and the Zodiac The six speech gestures Conversational gestures as an imitation of the speech gestures The conversational gestures in the zodiac The speech gestures and the colours Dynamic variety in connection with the speech g
• 10. The Connection of Artistic Practice and Training
• Introduction Meditation exercises and the zodiac in eurythmy The path of knowledge and the zodiac in eurythmy The shaping of gestures and the path of practice
• 11. Artistic Elements in Eurythmy and Their Twelve Metamorphoses
• 12. The Task of the Earthly and the Cosmic Human Being Wonder, empathy and conscience and the meditations IAO and TAO Notes
• Bibliography
• Index