The Wander-Light Eurythmy Company

Mark Neill

Performances

Eurythmy Training

Testimonials

History/Repertoire

Eurythmy?

Educational Programs

Corporate Training

Exercise DVD

Contact

Support our work

Eurythmy Workshops

  

Mark Neill

Mark studied with the European master Else Klink, receiving a diploma to both teach and perform Eurythmy.

After graduation, he formed the Wander-Light Eurythmy Company in 1991, performing hundreds of times throughout Australia, and overseas.

While continuing to perform, he is also training others.

"About fifteen years ago I saw the elderly Else Klink when she brought her Stuttgart Eurythmeum to the southern regions of her birth. In Sydney they played to a packed house. When I saw the Wander-Light Eurythmy Company perform I immediately noted the link with this other performance I'd seen all those years ago. There was something about both 'shows' that have made them live on for me."
    Margaret Bruevel, N.S.W., Australia.

What is Eurythmy?

In Eurythmy (Eurythmie, Eurytmi, Eurytmia), the artist and the instrument are one. The archetypes of life are brought into play and develop the cognitive, social and individual abilities of the human being: both the physical and inner lives are strengthened. Through doing Eurythmy, the individual is connected more with the creative centre of the world.
Working with the creative forces of speech and music, Eurythmy is a powerful means of connecting.

Performances by the Wander-Light Eurythmy Company
During 2008, Mark Neill will be teaching in Australia and Europe, as well as preparing for an extensive schools tour of Australia in 2009. He is also preparing a new T.S. Eliot programme, to be performed in Melbourne in 2009.

LRRHThe Wander-Light Troupe (Eurythmie Ensemble, Eurythmie Buehne) offers:

  • A unique combination of theatre-in-movement, storytelling, live music and brilliant costumes, which create theatrical magic.
  • High quality, all-live shows that engage the child’s own imagination.
  • A repertoire consisting of classic fairy tales and legends, because they support development of ethical, social and community values in a fun way.
  • Performances aimed specifically at the primary school age group.

To enquire or make a booking, please email or phone 03 5470 5581.

2007 Schools Tour (Sold Out)

In April, May and June 2007, The Company presented "Yhi Brings Life to the World" (Koori legend) and "LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD" to schools throughout the Eastern States and South Australia

Lear"KING LEAR, his daughters & the Fool"
a movement & voice production

Last performed at the Montsalvat Shakespeare Festival, July 2004
featuring Mark Neill & Friederike Heinsdorff (movement) + Reg Evans (voice).

"I think I was most taken by the Eurythmy Lear - it fair blew me away. King Lear and his Daughters was electrifying."
Marie Ryan, Radio FM88.6
Death Scene from Hamlet - choreography by Mark Neill
Heaven make thee free of it.
I follow thee …
I am dead, Horatio. Wretched Queen, adieu!
You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
That are but mutes or audience to this act,
Had I but time – as this fell sergeant, Death,
Is strict in his arrest – O, I could tell.
But let it be. Horatio, I am dead,
Thou livest, report me and my cause aright
To the un satisfied.
O God, Horatio, what a wounded name,
Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story…
What warlike noise is this?
O, I die, Horatio,
The potent poison quite o’ercrows my spirit.
I cannot live to hear the news from England;
But I do prophesy th’election lights
on Fortinbras, he has my dying voice.
So tell him, with th’occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited……the rest is silence.

Eurythmy Training

After twenty years in this field, Mark Neill has started training others. Through ongoing lessons and on the job experience, both Eurythmists and students are guided on the road to professional Eurythmy. Our last four productions (and tours) have included students with no prior experience in the field. Recently, after attending workshops with the Wander-Light Eurythmy Company, Joel Gajewski and Jessica Miller, from Newcastle, joined us on our 2003 Eastern States Tour. Tim Heath played Jack in Jack & the Beanstalk on our 2004 tour & Tess Scott played Cordelia in our recent production of King Lear at the Montsalvat Shakespeare Festival. None of these individauls had trained in this art form but all have relished the opportunity to gain hands on professional experience therein. The opportunity exists for others to do the same. We hold regular courses and workshops. Contact us.

Eurythmy Workshops

Did Rudolf Steiner want to hold a lecture cycle entitled "Dramatic Eurythmy"? Did Else Klink want to start a second stage group thet performed only "Dramatic Eurythmy"? What was the real nature of Isadora Duncan's dance? What is the common element here? How do we get from "Eurythmy-School" Eurythmy to the art of Eurythmy?

During these workshops, working with scenes from Shakespeare's greatest play, "King Lear", Mark Neill (Dip. Eur., Else Klink) offers insights into these questions gained from almost twenty years as a professional Eurythmist. He has choreographed over twenty programmes, performing them more than 350 times all over Australia, and the world.

"Mark, two things about you left a deep impression. The first was the intense dynamic of your performance - I felt your Eurythmy so alive and truly speaking to me."
           extract from interview with Mark Neill in Protea, 2000.

Dates: November and December, 2008. Information and bookings: contact us.

Educational Programs

"The Flying Eurythmy Service"

Over 16 years devising & applying eurythmy programs to children from four to eighteen years old at schools from Cairns to Hobart: specific programs for the consciousness of & hurdles facing each age group.

Some advantages include:

  1. Development of gross motor skills which fire the neurons in our brain thereby developing our fine motor skills making us more intelligent, more aware of others’ needs & better able to achieve our goals in life.
  2. Fun antidote to sedentary life-style of most children that lessens the chances of developing obesity & diabetes.
  3. Movement based on classic literature & music enhances development of vocabulary, emotional well-being & strength of purpose. 

Some schools Mark has worked at:
Tarremah (Hobart), Mansfield Steiner School, Orana (Canberra), Newcastle Waldorf School, Casuarina (Coff’s Harbour), Chrysalis (Bellingen) & the Armidale Waldorf School. 

To book/discuss a block for your school, obtain contact details of referees or to enquire about costs
phone 03 54705581 or email us. 

New! Eurythmy exercise DVD - more info

top