Jolanda Frischknecht : Tone Eurythmy
Jolanda trained as a Eurythmist in Dornach, Switzerland at the School of Lea van der Pals. After graduating in 1990, she did a post-graduate year at Eurythmy Spring Valley. After five years of teaching and performing in Switzerland, she moved to Austin, TX and co-founded the Austin Eurythmy Ensemble. With the Ensemble, she performed and toured for more than ten years in the US, Canada and Europe, while also teaching children at the Austin Waldorf School. She completed her Therapeutic Eurythmy Training in 2012 and moved to Portland, OR. Since then, she has been teaching grades 1 through 8, doing therapeutic work at the Micha-el School, and teaching adults at the Micha-el Institute and the Eurythmy Foundation course. She is a member of Portland Eurythmy.
Carrie Mass: Speech Eurythmy
Carrie completed her Eurythmy training in Spring Valley, New York in 2002. Since graduating she has worked and performed with various ensembles throughout the years, mainly centered on the west coast. Carrie started teaching in 2004 at the Live Oak Charter School in California and the Sebastapol Independent Charter. While in California, Carrie worked on and performed in several projects with Lemniscate Arts. Carrie moved to Portland and began teaching Eurythmy at the Portland Waldorf School in 2008, where she leads alumni and community eurythmy classes and teaches 3rd through 8th grade. She continues to practice, choreograph and perform with Portland Eurythmy.
Daniel Stokes: Creative Speech
Daniel Stokes has worked within the Waldorf Education movement since 1975. He received his teacher training at Emerson College, England and a diploma for Speech and Drama in Sydney, Australia. He co-founded Mythos Storytellers and Looking Glass Theater which performed and led workshops in schools across Australia. Over the past 24 years Daniel has been a class teacher and has brought a love for the spoken word, specifically its use in the classroom, through courses in poetry, storytelling and drama in Waldorf training centers throughout the U.S. He currently lives with his wife in Portland and spends some of the year abroad training teachers and mentoring in Waldorf Schools.
Amanda Leonard: Drama, Eurythmy
Amanda Leonard has had a life-long love of movement, music and theatre. She was happy to find eurythmy while living in the rural farming intentional community, Camphill Minnesota. Upon her return to urban life, she realized that she wanted to study eurythmy. This led her to England and back to beautiful Boulder, CO, where she studied with Glenda and David-Michael Monasch. Upon graduating, she moved to Portland to work with Portland Eurythmy. She is delighted to be a part of this performance group, whose members work tirelessly and collaboratively to elevate the art of eurythmy.
Lily Breshears: Musician
Cheri Munske: Anthroposophy, Painting
Block Teachers:
Victor Garza: Clay Modeling
Annie Lighthart: Poetry
Mariama Loos-Diallo: Plant Dyeing
Tom Myers: Woodworking
Joan Takacs: Principles of Movement
John Takacs: Projective Geometry, Anatomy