“Man plays only when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is fully a human being only when he plays.”
Aesthetic Education of Man - Friedrich Schiller

The Living Movement Training has 2 courses.
1. Foundation Course – 2 Years (Elementary Training)
2. Advanced Course - 2 Years

The Foundation Course – 2 Years:
Foundation 1 (3 terms)
Foundation 2 (3 terms)

At the end of the 2-year Foundation Course the student is awarded a certificate of Practitioner of Living Movement which entitles the student to put all learned skills into practise (but not with the title of Living Movement Artist) 

The Foundation Course programme includes: fundamental movement skills, functional un­derstanding of anatomy, body awareness, basic Eurythmy skills, spatial awareness, improvisation and devising techniques.

After the first two years the student will have encountered a wide range of body exercises, Eurythmy skills, performance skills, and will have gained experience through several artistic projects and a community based project.

Written assignments and talks are part of each study year.

2. Advanced Course: 2 Years
Advanced 1 (3 terms)
Advanced 2 (3 terms)

At the end of the Advanced Course the student will be awarded a diploma as a Living Movement Artist.

In terms of future planning this would be equal to a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.

As a Living Movement Artist the student is qualified to work as a performer, to do work­shops, give classes and to create and lead performance projects. 
 

Advanced 1
The personal repertoire and individual range of expression will be broadened by working with a Choreographer/Director as well as creating and leading an own performance project. Written assignments and talks will focus on research and the student will work more inde­pendently.

This year will end with a tour featuring one or more of the artistic productions worked on during the study year.

Advanced 2
To graduate the student is required to formulate his/her own research question and com­plete a thesis with a movement presentation on the chosen theme. Artistic projects organ­ized by the students should be self-devised as well as working with a direc­tor/ choreogra­pher and include one artistic project with a social focus. These three terms can also be completed as a guest student in another approved Academy abroad. The main focus of this study year is the development of the individuality of the artist to assist him/her in defining his/her future work perspective.

The study is intended for young people between 18 and 35 years of age, who have already had some performance experience. Teaching will be in blocks providing a thorough schooling in all aspects of eurythmy (including classical and contemporary).

The emphasis will be on the integration of a broad palette of artistic skills for eurythmy-theatre productions.

Foundation 1
Year One: Play and Imagination -
Introduction to body/movement awareness
Play and Movement-Improvisation
The life of a performance / breathing / beginning – highpoint – end
Methods of creating (devising)
The neutral mask
Eurythmy / mimodynamics: voyage into the sounding man
Anthropology / Anthroposophy: mutations of human consciousness / study of man / the senses
Storytelling: myths and tales, biographies
Observing and analysing theatre performances and art
Scenography
Projects and practicum’s with children
Performances and reports

Foundation 2
Year Two: Listening and Dialogue -
Bodywork and warm up / eurythmy exercises
Further development of eurythmical technique
Theatre Skills: acting and mime / the voice / puppetry / masks / clown
The audience and me - 1
Goetheanistic observation of life processes and metamorphosis
The birth of eurythmy and the beginning of the 20th century
Contemporary Dance
Dramaturgy I: a world of themes
Projects and practicum’s in cultural institutions
Performances and reports

Advanced 1
Year Three: Showing –
The personal development programme
Classical and contemporary eurythmy in performance
What it is like to be: teacher, choreographer, director, performer, producer, therapist
Dramaturgy II: the eurythmy-theatre performance
as a living organism
Aesthetics
The audience and me - 2

Advanced 2
Year Four: ... and going ones own way...
Participation in theatre projects in Vienna and/or
Worldwide artistic projects after ones own choice
Experiences with Ensembles and touring
Specialisation

The day will begin at 8.30am and end at 5.00pm, five days a week. Each term will be approximately 11 weeks.

To see the detailed timetable of this years programme click here

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