Chaparral Eurythmy        (512) 288.6130

Eurythmy is an art which strives to make music and speech visible through movement. In a hectic world, eurythmy provides a reflective, spiritual alternative to stress and chaos.

We will perform Sunday March 9th at 2PM at the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in The Villa, and Thursday April 24th on the Central Presbyterian Noontime Concert Series. We received a grant and are planning more performances, including a children's program and West Texas.

Chaparral Eurythmy has performed at festivals and conferences in Austin, most recently November 2nd 2007 at the Austin Waldorf School, and April 1 2007, on Nikita Storojev's faculty recital at the University of Texas at Austin.

The group offers programs for adults and children.

Eurythmists:

Barbara Bresette-Mills has been actively performing eurythmy since 1992 both independently and as part of ensembles in Michigan, NY and Texas. She has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada giving performances to children and adults of all ages as a member of the Austin Eurythmy Ensemble of which she was a founding member. Currently she works collaboratively with fellow artists Beth Usher and Julie Lamb and pianist Anthony Tobin. Barbara also teaches Eurythmy at the Austin Waldorf School.

Beth Usher is a eurythmist with a eurythmy therapy prctice in Austin. April, 2007, she presented artistic solo work at the World Eurythmy Conference in Switzerland. With colleagues, Eurythmists Barbara Bresette-Mills and Julie Lamb, and Pianist Anthony Tobin, she has performed Shostakovich Preludes in Jessen Auditorium, University of Texas, in recital with Tschaikowsky competition winner, Professor Nikita Storojev. Performance tours include Laval University in Quebec, McGill University in Montreal, Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, the Kennedy School at Harvard University and University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She has edited Eurythmy: An Introductory Reader by Rudolf Steiner, published by Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 2006. She earned a five-year diploma with Dorothea Mier from the School of Eurythmy in New York in 1983. She has been faculty member in the School of Eurythmy, New York.

Pianist - Musical Consultant:

Anthony Tobin has performed across the US, Canada, The Netherlands Germany Switzerland, and in Brazil, Austria, and the UK. He tours as soloist, chamber musician, and as a pianist for eurythmy, an art form that combines dance, music, poetry, and lights. From 1999-present he is pianist and music director for the Austin Eurythmy Ensemble. During January 2008 he joined their tour of Germany, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, will return to Witten-Annen Germany May 2nd 2008 to perform with them, and will join their tour of the US East and West coasts US October-November 2008. Tobin studied at the Eastman School of Music, as Daniel Pollack's teaching assistant at USC, and recieved a PHD in piano from the Univeristy of Texas. In 2005 Tobin recorded Beethoven piano sonatas for the feature film "The Quiet". He is currently making classical music videos of the world's cities and completing a documentary on Claude Debussy.

Speech Recitation:

Stephen Usher