“Nature must become an art and art a second Nature” Novalis
Let us imagine a great snow-clad plain spread out before us and upon it here and there rivers and lakes hard frozen. The neighbouring sea is mostly frozen over close to shore; further out huge floes are drifting; occasional stunted trees and bushes lift heads heavy with snow and icicles. It is evening. The sun has already set, leaving behind the golden splendour of its afterglow.
Before our eyes are two female figures and out of the afterglow is born — we might say is sent forth — a messenger from the higher worlds, who stands before the women and listens with close attention to what they are telling of their inmost feelings and experiences.
One of the two standing there hugs her arms tightly to her body, cowers together, and exclaims: “I am freezing cold.” The eyes of the other woman wander over the snow-clad plain, out to the frozen waters and over the trees thick with hanging icicles, and from her lips burst forth the words “how glorious this whole landscape is.” She is utterly heedless of her own feelings, utterly oblivious to her physical suffering from the cold. We feel warmth streaming into her heart, for she has no attention to spare for her physical bodily discomfort, being inwardly overwhelmed by the wonderful beauty of this chill and frozen scene. Then the sun sinks further and further, the color fades out of the afterglow and the two friends fall into a deep slumber. One of them, the one who had been so acutely conscious of the cold in her bodily self, sinks into a sleep which might easily become fatal; the other sinks into a sleep in which we can recognise the influence of the emotion expressed in the words “How glorious,” which continues to warm her limbs and keep them full of life throughout her slumber. And she hears the youth who, born out of the glory of the afterglow, says to her these words, “Thou art Art”; and then she falls asleep.
With her she took into her slumbers all the results of the impressions made upon her by the landscape which has been described; and a sort of dream mingled with her sleep. And yet it was not a dream, but in a certain way a reality, although of a unique kind akin to dreaming in its form. It was the manifestation of a reality which this woman’s soul had barely been able to conceive before. For the experience that befell her was not a dream; it merely resembled one. That which she experienced may be described as “astral imagination.” And if we are to describe her visions we cannot do it otherwise than by setting forth in words the picture by means of which “imaginative” perception speaks.
For the soul of this woman became aware at that moment what the event signalised. By the words of the youth, “Thou art Art,” can be described intimately only by clothing the experiences of the imaginative perceptions in words. Accordingly let us thus clothe the impressions received by the soul of that woman through the channel of this imaginative percept.
YOU ARE ART
“The Nature and Origin of the Arts”
by Rudolf Steiner
7 ARTS
ARTISTIC WORKSHOPS FOR THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
November 2022- July 23
The artistic process fosters freedom, activates genuine thought, awakens sensitivity and creative action. It opens up an imaginative space that facilitates experimentation and knowledge. It shows us the path of perception and dialogue, the connection with oneself, with others and with Nature.
Schedule:
Fridays from 5pm to 8pm // Saturdays from 10am to 1:30pm // 2:30pm to 5pm.
Venue:
Fundació Sa Llavor:
Fundació Sa Llavor. Plaça Metge Borràs, 3. Binissalem. Mallorca
Requirements:
This training is open to anyone, with no need for previous artistic training.
It is possible to participate in the workshops independently
Created and designed by:
Escuela Cultura Team – Fundació Sa Llavor
Escuela Cultura Team
Sofía Sevilla
Eurythmist, trained at West Midland Eurythmy School, UK and Eurythmy School in Madrid. Degree in Artistic and Pedagogical Eurythmy from the Performing Arts Section of the Goetheanum, Dornach.
Biologist, doctorate in Botany and Education for Sustainability. Specialist in Steiner Pedagogy and Biodynamics. Coordinator and teacher of Holistic Education, Science and Performing Arts Projects in Primary and Secondary Education and teacher training. Co-founder of the Fundació Sa Llavor.
Victor Mardaras
Multidisciplinary artist trained at Emerson College, UK. Specialist in Biodynamics and Steiner Pedagogy.
Gamelan Orchestra Teacher, Indonesian Traditional Music. Coordinator and teacher in the development of Artistic Processes in Primary and Secondary Education and teacher training. Co-founder of the Sa Llavor Foundation.
Irene Sevilla
Speech Art Artist. Specialist in Steiner Pedagogy and Dramatic Art. Member of an action-research group led by Sarah Kane in UK in the field of Creative Speech and Interpretation according to the Chekhov Method.
Psychologist, specialized in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the needs of children and adolescents. Trained in INPP (Neuro-Physiological Psychology). Coordinator and teacher in the design of the Artistic Process in Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary Education and Teacher Training. Co-founder of the Sa Llavor Foundation.
Guests
1 // 25th-26th November, 2022 // Architecture: Forms Disappear in Forms
The landscape and the elements that shape it are reflected in the local architecture. A dialogue is created between periphery and centre, between landscape and architecture. With the perception of our senses we discover these relationships. Through eurythmic movement and modelling we evoke the possibilities of artistic research that pays special attention to form and space.
Guest: Rudolf Kaesbach
Born in 1950 in Rio de Janeiro. Studied architecture and sculpture in Zurich and Dornach. Director of sculpture training at Emerson College (UK) for 30 years. Travels all over the world conducting art workshops with the aim of revaluing the importance of art for education and social transformation.
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2 // 13th-14th January, 2023 // Sculpture: The future rests in the past
It is not the singular form, but the process, which fosters creativity, allows us to enter into process thinking and embark on creative action. An imaginative space opens up that facilitates experimentation and research. Sculpting, modelling clay, drawing, through a variety of methods and materials, pave the way for perception and dialogue and encourage investigation and discovery.
Guest: Rudolf Kaesbach
Born in 1950 in Rio de Janeiro. Studied architecture and sculpture in Zurich and Dornach. Director of sculpture training at Emerson College (UK) for 30 years. Travels all over the world conducting art workshops with the aim of revaluing the importance of art for education and social transformation.
For more information:
escolacultura@sallavor.es
3 // February 3rd-4th, 2023 // Painting: Limit Yourself, Oh! Unlimited
Painting is colour, light and darkness, form and emptiness, image and symbol, movement and rest. How can the unlimited, the eternal, the invisible be made visible in the world? Through the essential and expressive qualities of colour, light and shadow and different pictorial techniques and resources, we open the way to imagination and inspiration, sources of conscious creation.
Guest: Víctor Mardaras
Multidisciplinary artist trained at Emerson College, UK. Specialist in Biodynamics and Steiner Pedagogy. Gamelan Orchestra teacher. Coordinator and teacher in the development of Artistic Processes in Primary and Secondary Education and teacher training. Co-founder of the Fundació Sa Llavor.
For more information:
escolacultura@sallavor.es
4 // March 3rd-4th, 2023// Music: Sustained in the sustained
Music awakens the deepest places of the human being and activates the vital forces and sensitivity. Strengthens community feeling and solidarity.
As an art that is sustained over time, music has a special relationship with the development and evolution of human life. The experience of the human organism as a musical instrument leads us to music as an experience of the spiritual. The human being is music in his whole being.
Guest: José Salinas
Musician, Telecommunications Engineer. Trained in Music Therapy, Human Biography and Werbeck Singing. He is fully dedicated to music, collaborating full time with different initiatives such as salutogenic choirs, Werbeck singing working groups, conducting youth orchestras, as well as giving music, singing, lyre and violin lessons to children and adults.
For more information:
escolacultura@sallavor.es
Through listening, reconnect with the vital force of sounds and discover the universal images that live in each word. The word is music, colour and form. These elements connect us with its artistic side.
Where does speech come from in humans? where does it originate? For speech to acquire a level of art, it is necessary that the forming activity of sounds be raised to consciousness.
The word originates from the artistic side of the human being, not from the intellect. In the beginning it was the verb, the logos, the word.
Guest: Severino Airoldi
He was born in Switzerland. He studied Art of the Word and Theater in Stuttgart, Germany. Teacher, reciter and declaimer. He has taught German and theater at the Escuela Libre Micael in Madrid. He was part of the Trova de Cuentos and Ensemble de Euritmia. He has worked in the art of the word and theater in sociotherapy. He was part of the “L’Arsenale” Theater School in Milan, Italy and has directed the “Christmas Cars” project at the Escuela Libre Micael. Since 2001 he has taught theater and speech training courses in different institutions in Spain.
For more information:
escolacultura@sallavor.es
6 // May 26th-27th, 2023 // Eurythmy: Revealing the Invisible
The art of Eurythmy makes the sound of speech and song visible. When a person expresses what lives in his soul through language, song or music, he commits himself with his whole being. In a certain way, he has the tendency to move with his whole body, but he does not carry this tendency to expression, he retains this movement and concentrates it in the organs of speech or song. It is possible to recognize the tendency of internal movement and reveal the invisible through the movement of the human organism. This movement is the Art of Eurythmy.
Guest: Carina Schmid
Born in Hamburg, she completed her Eurythmy training in Hamburg with Lotte Korff and Lory Maier-Smits, the first eurythmyist trained by Rudolf Steiner. He also trained with Elena Zuccoli in Dornach. He was part of the Ensemble of the Goetheanum in Dornach and the Else-Klink-Ensemble. From 1977 to 1999 she was director of the Hamburg School of Eurythmy. 1984 Founded the Eurythmy Stage in Hamburg. 1999 – 2011 she was the artistic director of the Goetheanum Eurythmy Ensemble. Realization and artistic direction of great orchestral works with Eurythmy to this day.
For more information:
escolacultura@sallavor.es
7 // June 30th-July 1st, 2023/// Social Art: Moving the instinct of repose
Social Art shapes real practical life. Change your gaze towards artistic creation to enhance your spiritual strength. Live the artistic process as a social matter at the service of humanity and sow the seeds for the evolution of the human being and the transformation of society.
Guest: Claudia Schlürmann
Born in Iserlohn, Germany. Graduated in Social Work, trained in Sculpture at Emerson College, UK. Art teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School in Überlingen, Germany.
Lecturer on the Visual Arts course at Emerson College, UK.
Practical PhD in Social Art at Oxford Brookes University.
Works as a freelance sculptor and lecturer.
For more information:
escolacultura@sallavor.es
SUTDY TRIP — THE 7 ARTS IN DIALOGUE — Bring light into the calm
July 5th -10th, 2023. Goetheanum, Dornach, Suiza
About a century ago, the first Goetheanum was born as a transforming and active impulse of society. Visiting and contemplating the Goetheanum nourishes the path of the human being through the arts and brings to light new contents and forms of expression, becoming an inspiring movement for artists and architects. The old values disappear and new techniques, inner needs and existential questions arise.
The visit to the Goetheanum has the objective of experiencing the 7 arts in a contemporary dialogue.
It rises on the slopes of Dornach in Switzerland and is admirable both for its immensity and its design. This concrete temple, which does not have any right angles, is a living and dynamic representation of the 7 arts in dialogue. It is the seat of the Free Higher School for Spiritual Science, a movement founded in 1912 by Rudolf Steiner, called the Goetheanum in the honor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Information: http://www.sallavor.es/el-camino-del-ser-humano-a-traves-de-las-artes/
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Escuela Cultura, an artistic impulse created from the research line of Goethean Science that activates the Art, Nature and Education project of the Fundació Sa Llavor, is a space for human encounter that promotes artistic creation, fosters cultural exchange and awakens the creative forces of intuition, imagination and inspiration, seeds for evolution and social transformation.
