Making sound visible

Eurythmy, the "art of making sound visible” was made available to audiences in Delhi, Hyderabad, Calcutta and Bombay between January 9 and 25, 2014 by the 11-member Light Eurythmy Performing Group from Dornach, Switzerland. The Group had been invited by Dilnawaz and Aban Bana, who have studied eurythmy at The Goetheanum in Dornach and who introduced anthroposophy to India in 1982, mentions their brother Sarosh Bana in an email sent to Parsiana.

Light eurythmy performance by Swiss group

"Eurythmy has applications not only for the performing arts, but also in pedagogy, as group eurythmy for children and adults, and even in therapy… (at) clinics, hospitals, institutions and homes,” according to Dilnawaz, who has worked as a curative eurythmist at the Lukas cancer clinic near Dornach. "Through eurythmy, one becomes more sensitive, more ecologically conscious and more aware of one’s self and of the environment in general, forming a deep connection to whatever one is doing in everyday life,” she explains.
First conceived by Dr Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian littérateur, scientist, artist and philosopher in 1912, "this form of movement is not a dance, nor a mime, but an art of movement, making visible speech and music,” explains Thomas Sutter, who has led the Group for the past decade. The word eurythmy stems from the Greek root meaning "beautiful, harmonious rhythm,” the email notes.