“Impuls” Eurythmy Ensemble

In the autumn of 2018, at a low point after a world tour was cancelled at short notice, we met to discuss the idea of a joint eurythmy project.

This grew into an impulse for two when Katharina Okamura and Pia Secondo began to work as a eurythmy duo on Fratres by Arvo Pärt. We wanted to give space to our need for freedom and independence and take the time to get to know ourselves as creators and to experience what comes to life through us as artists.

Inspired by the wish to present truly beautiful art to young children too, we wrote a fairy tale, The Light Flower, with images that were born from the inner questions we carried in relation to the present time. In 2019, before the break now enforced on us by the Coronavirus, we had a number of performances which touched people and were gratefully received.

A healthy social life

In February 2020 Flavia Tomescu and Ioana Farcasanu came to Berlin (DE) to join us. Having grown up in Romania, Uruguay and Germany and studied at eurythmy schools in Bucharest (RO), Witten-Annen (DE) and Aesch (CH), the four of us have come to this cooperation from different directions. We each take responsibility for the ideas and processes we develop and then ask experienced artists to help us with the final touches. We are also our own organizers. For us, a healthy social relationship is the foundation for the individual and free development, from which an artistic and creative process can grow.

As eurythmists we try to approach eurythmy as freely and honestly as possible, to free ourselves from anything that threatens to become rigid structure or habit, and to move in living and creative processes. As human beings and artists we want to stand firmly in our time and make this conscious presence the inner source of our creativity.

Taking hold of our humanity

At the moment we are working on Lachrymae, inspired by the eponymous composition by Benjamin Britten, which weaves through the programme, as well as by the dream scene in which the little girl discovers the whole world in her own tear, like in a dew drop. This is where we can take hold of our humanity again: we remember our origin, our goals and impulses, our responsibility and morality. While we were stuck before, steered unknowingly by forces depriving us of our freedom, we can now reawaken within ourselves.

The situation being what it is we don’t know when and where Lachrymae will be performed. The Social Future congress festival in Bochum (DE), where our programme would have premiered in June, has been postponed by a year. We hope that we will be able to start to plan performances from October. Until then we will courageously continue rehearsing and working!