THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS
with David-Michael Monasch
6.30-8.30pm on February 2
in the Eurythmy Room at the Santa Cruz Waldorf School
In this special evening presentation, the nature of the four temperaments will come vividly to life. After a brief historical survey of how they have been viewed from the ancient Greeks to the present day, the focus will be on how they are understood by Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf education. Through stirring and often humorous poetic examples, the choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, and melancholic aspects of ourselves, their relationship to the four elements, and how these great archetypes are reflected in our biographies will become easily recognizable. Citing clear examples of them in famous artists, entertainers, literary and media characters; one can come to understand both the gifts and challenges of each.
Simply the best presentation on the subject I have seen in many years of workshops and presentations on Waldorf education! – Rainbow Rosenbloom, Live-Ed, California
DAVID-MICHAEL MONASCH is a eurythmist, actor-director, juggler-clown (fool-moon), 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. For many years, he performed and taught in almost every conceivable situation in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and throughout Europe, where he lived from 1976-1989. He was a core member of Ashdown Eurythmy in the UK from 1983-87, giving performances throughout Europe. From 1989 until 2003, David-Michael lived in Seattle, where he was a founding member of Threshold Ensemble, and where he worked with Seattle Public Theater’s Theater of Liberation Troupe, the Puget Sound Revels, Magical Strings, and Kaleidoscope Dance Company. He also taught at Antioch University Seattle and at all the Waldorf schools in Washington State; and was a founding faculty member of Sound Circle Center for Arts and Anthroposophy. Now based in Boulder, CO, where he taught eurythmy and a variety of subjects at Tara Performing Arts High School for seven years, he has taught at many Colorado Waldorf schools, at various locations around the country, and at the Sound Circle EurythmyTraining, which he co-founded with his wife in 2010, and which saw graduations in 2014 and 2016. He is delighted to be teaching kindergartens through eighth grade eurythmy at SCWS in two six-week blocks this year.In service,
John Baring, Daniel Bittleston, Susan Williams Cook, David Eyes, Jeanne Feeney
the Branch Core Group
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