Glenda and David-Michael are wise, full of warmth and humor, and very organized about the content and presentation of what they are teaching. They are also patient and encouraging to those of us who feel we "cannot do" eurythmy, and thus, we all learn to "do" it!

—C. Curran

About Us

For over twelve years, at first in Seattle, WA and now in Boulder, CO, Sound Circle Eurythmy has offered a wide variety of introductory and more advanced courses for adults seeking to enhance their lives through the practice of eurythmy. Directors David-Michael and Glenda Monasch are also dedicated to broadening the profile of eurythmy as a performing art in the wider community, expanding its reach beyond the Waldorf school circles in which it is most often at home. Through a variety of modest and more extensive performance projects, they seek to make eurythmy more accessible to wider audiences, while still always seeking to be true to its roots and traditions.   

A Brief History

Sound Circle Eurythmy (SCE) was initially begun in Seattle, WA in 1991 as a performing eurythmy company for the Pacific Northwest region. After a successful, but short-lived existence, the company was forced to disband due to heavy work loads and technical difficulties. In 1995, SCE was re-born as a vehicle for enthusiastic adult eurythmy students to study with David-Michael and Glenda Monasch and to share the results of their work through performances. Its success particularly highlighted the need for more thorough grounding in the eurythmic elements, and indeed, the students were longing for just that. As a result, 1997 saw the birth of a more in-depth experience of eurythmy when SCE inaugurated an Intensive Course.

For the next seven years SCE offered weekend courses once a month from September to June and week-long workshops every summer. The latter included annual visits from Michael Leber, the director of the Eurythmeum Stuttgart’s training program and the weekend courses were enlivened through visits by a variety master eurythmists, including Margit Wagner, Melaine Lampson, and others. In addition, SCE was fortunate to host a full four-year summer cycle of Annemarie Ehrlich’s Eurythmy in the Workplace training for working professional eurythmists.

The Intensive Course participants represented a variety of backgrounds, ages, experiences, and anthroposophical maturity. The youngest was twenty and had spent many years on the streets. At the other end of the spectrum was an elderly artist, a German Waldorf school alumnus, who has lived her life in the aura of Rudolf Steiner's work. In between these two, there was an array of computer techno-wizards, Waldorf/Camphill alumni, an ex-football player, an architect, an environmentalist, and several Waldorf teachers.

Between the once-a-month weekend courses, a number of the most devoted students met regularly to explore, deepen, and develop what had been presented; they became the SCE Training Group. Over the course of  the next three years, this small group attained roughly the equivalent of the first two years of classical eurythmy training. Thereafter they joined classes in trainings in Stuttgart, Germany; Jarna, Sweden; Oslo, Norway; Botton, UK; and Sacramento, California. All of them have now been teaching in Waldorf schools for a few years, while another former Intensive student just graduated this summer.

In addition to the courses offered throughout these years, SCE continually created performances for a variety of events and contexts. These included contributions to festivals and conferences, full-scale touring programs, and annual public appearances with the Celtic duo Magical Strings (often in venues holding 1000+ people). SCE also hosted touring eurythmy productions by the Eurythmeum Stuttgart, the Brazilian Eurythmy Group, Eurythmy Spring Valley, Austin Eurythmy, as well as performances by Walking the Dog Theater and storytellers Susan Strauss, Ashley Ramsden, Daniel Stokes, and Duncan Macintosh.

The Seattle phase of SCE came to an end after the Monasches moved to Boulder in 2003. Gradually establishing themselves here, they began presenting a wider range of courses for adults in 2006. This is the third year of these more intensive courses, open to all.

SCE is most excited to announce the opening of a new four year eurythmy training in Boulder.  With the support and cowork of Michael Leber from the Eurythmeum Stuttgart, this new initiative will open with the Summer Intensive in August 2009. 

See Training for further information.

Check back soon to view a short segment of David-Michael conducting a workshop entitled "The Waldorf Curriculum through Eurythmy." Click here to purchase the DVD of the full workshop.

     Glenda Monasch

Glenda Monasch grew up in South Africa surrounded by the song and rhythmic dances of the cultures around her. She sought this playful, "sounding" life first in the profession of the kindergarten teacher and then as a eurythmist. She completed a three-year teaching certificate in Early Childhood Education at Witwatersrand University

in Johannesburg. From 1975-77 she attended Emerson College in England, where she completed the Foundation Year (with a special project in puppetry) and the first year of her eurythmic studies. She holds a eurythmy diploma from the Academy of Eurythmic Art at the Goetheanum (Lea van der Pals) in Switzerland. She has many years of performing experience, including four years as a core member of Ashdown Eurythmy. She has worked extensively teaching eurythmy to all ages and abilities: in the London School of Eurythmy, in kindergartens, curative communities, schools, public courses, and in summer programs at Rudolf Steiner College and the Bay Area Waldorf Teacher Training in California.

Glenda is also a therapeutic eurythmist, having received her diploma from the English Curative Eurythmy Training in 1994. From 1989 to 2003 she lived in Seattle, WA, where she taught at the Seattle Waldorf School, was on the founding faculty of Sound Circle Center for Arts and Anthroposophy, teaching in its Early Childhood and Foundation Year programs. In 2003, Glenda moved with her family to Boulder, CO, where she has taught eurythmy to both adults and children in several Waldorf schools, and has a private therapeutic eurythmy practice. Since 2007 she has been the Coordinator of the Care Program at Shining Mountain Waldorf School.  She is also the resident therapeutic eurythmist for the International Physician’s Training in Anthroposophical Medicine.

Sound Circle Eurythmy Foundation

Sound Circle Eurythmy Foundation is registered as a non-profit corporation in the State of Colorado and is applying for Federal IRS non-profit status.

David-Michael Monasch

David-Michael Monasch is a eurythmist, actor-director, juggler-clown, and father/husband. He holds a BFA in Theater from the University of Minnesota (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and a diploma from the Academy for Eurythmic Art at the Goetheanum in Switzerland. After leaving the professional theater, David-Michael took to the road as the juggler-clown fool/moon. For many years, he performed and taught eurythmy, juggling, and theater in almost every conceivable situation in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and throughout Europe, where he lived from 1976-1989. From 1983-87 he was a core member of the British-based Ashdown Eurythmy, giving hundreds of performances throughout Europe.

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Eurythmy classes with Glenda and David-Michael provide very enriching experiences, offering me new ways to connect movement with social, spiritual and philosophical

elements necessary for me to navigate everyday life. The Monasch's are highly skilled and committed teachers, who bring a level of intellectual maturity to their work that I find highly rewarding. Eurythmy has helped me integrate many areas of personal development into a cohesive sense of connectedness. I highly recommend their classes for anyone seeking a deeper connection with movement and soul development.

- D. Summerfield