A history of the anthroposophical movement and the arts focusing on the life of Marie Steiner.

Focusing on Marie Steiner-von Sivers' distinctive collaboration with Rudolf Steiner, this book offers an engaging, lively narrative of the early decades of the anthroposophic movement. Utilizing eyewitness accounts and primary sources, Angela Locher creates vivid images of the arts being developed at the Goetheanum, in particular eurythmy, speech formation, and the dramatic arts. She also describes many fascinating aspects of general anthroposophic history, including the period of collaboration with the Theosophical Society; the design and construction of the first and second Goetheanum buildings; Steiner's overseas travel, tours, and visits; the pivotal Christmas Conference of 1923/24; stage performances, including Steiner's mystery dramas; and Rudolf Steiner's unexpected death and its immediate aftermath.

Locher structures this absorbing study around the life of Marie Steiner--from her birth in 1867, childhood in Russia, and eventual passing in Switzerland in 1948.

"I have written this book especially for subsequent generations of eurythmists, actors, and speakers who could not experience what had been achieved in the previous century...the vital processes of the development of eurythmy and the dramatic arts. These created the foundation on which we stand today and from which we can carry on into the future." --Angela Locher