Eurythmy as a specialist subject is part of a Steiner curriculum from Kindergarten through to Class 12. So what is Eurythmy and what does moving together do?

We are currently asked to continually explore and reshape our social relations.  Old manners and codes of conduct are no longer satisfactory in a democratising multicultural society.

Eurythmy is an art of movement par excellence, in which the social aspect plays a significant role.

The movement of language and music are made visible by people in groups. When a contractive or expansive movement occurs in a poem, this can be visualized by moving towards or away from each other in a circle.

This moving together in a circle is an important element in kindy and in the first three years of the Lower School.  Older children will be asked to practise bringing different movements together in one entity.  They no longer all walk the same form in space, but straight and curved forms, for example, are made visible simultaneously.  This way the entire movement of the group adds a surplus value to the individual movement.

Each individual moves his/her/their own part of a movement-pattern which a single person could not possibly visualize.  This makes an important social fact obvious and concrete, namely that the whole is more than the sum of all the parts.  Together we are able to bring about something that is more than all the single contributions combined. 

This concept of moving together can also be summed up in the following whakatauki:

Mā pango, mā whero ka oti ai te mahi

By black and red together the work is done

nā Nina- Lower School Eurythmy kaiako