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Photo	Name	Bio
	Gia van den Akker	Born in the Netherlands in 1961, Gia has lived in Italy since 2007, having established there "la fabbrica," a eurythmy studio. She has studied with many accomplished eurythmists, including Werner Barfod (The Hague, NL), Else Klink (Stuttgart),and Elena Zuccoli (Dornach). Having formerly served as a staff member at the Euritmieacademie,The Hague, she now serves as a visiting lecturer in the Hague, at the Eurythmy School of Witten-Annen, the Alanus College in Alfter, and the Scuola di Danza in Torino. As a performing eurythmist, Gia is continuously working on her own productions. "The focus of my work is on interdisciplinary cooperation and collaboration, and on eurythmy as an art of dancing beyond the theatre, for example in museums, at funerals and commemorations."
	Marilia Barreto	Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1955, Marília has studied eurythmy in The Hague - The Netherlands, finishing the training in 1986. During 13 years she has performed in the Grupo de Euritmia de São Paulo, being one of its founders, with which she has traveled through Brazil and abroad showing their researches in the field of brazilian eurythmy. For twenty years now she has been teaching at the Escola Waldorf Rudolf Steiner in São Paulo, having concentrated in the last seven years in the work with the High School. There she has founded the extra-curricular performing group among twelve graders, called Terra Brasilis Eurythmy. In 2007 she has created Terranova Euritmia, a Life Orientation Year for young former Waldorf students, having eurythmy as a central subject. In 2003 she took a Master Degree in Semiotics at the PUC- SP Catholic University of São Paulo, having written the work From Word to the Poetics of Movement. For the third time now she is preparing trained eurythmists in Brazil for the pedagogical work at Waldorf Schools
	Andreas Borrmann	Born in 1954 in Karlsruhe, Germany, Andreas studied eurythmy in Berlin. For 26 years now, he has been teaching children and young adults at the Rudolf Steiner Schule Berlin. As well, he has maintained active participatiion in artistic eurythmy projects as well as dramatic productions. Andreas is a founding member of and teacher at the Norddeutschen Eurythmielehrerausbildung, which has more recently transformed into the "Eurythmie Referendariat mit Bachelor Degree Den Haag".
	Ingrid Everwijn	Ingrid undertook her piano studies in Basel. She has taught seminars and completed her eurythmy training in Dornach, and as well did the therapeutic eurythmy training in England. Since 1995, Ingrid has been a teacher and leader of the college of teachers at the "Akademie für Eurythmische Kunst Baselland in Aesch."
	Bettina Grube	Bettina Grube was born in Oranienburg, Germany in 1956. She went to school in Stuttgart and later studied Artistic Speech and Drama at the Alanus Hochschule, Bonn. Afterwards, she studied eurythmy in Hamburg, taught at different training centers, and has worked ever since as stage artist. Her credits are many and include: member of the renowned English eurythmy stage group Ashdown Eurythmy from 1984 until they dissolved in 1991; collaboration on many artistic projects, including Zodiac at the Documenta IX (Kassel), Eurythmiesprechtheater Christian Morgenstern- Images of His Life, Freies Eurythmieensemble (Hamburg), Eurythmiewerkstatt Neue Musik (Mikrokozmosz), The Nutcracker; and Schneesturm (Maria Swetajewa, collaborating with a theater ensemble from St. Petersburg). Since 1993, Bettina is deeply involved with the Mondensemble, which was co-founded by her, and its children and evening performances taking a central role in her artistic activities. Bettina has been currently engaged in guest teaching at eurythmy trainings in Hamburg, Yokohama, the Haag, and Witten, and as well maintains involvement in directing projects belonging to her activities as freelance artist. She lives in Hamburg, where she co-founded 4.D raum fuer eurythmische ausbildung und kunst.
	Ulla Hess	Born in Germany, Ulla undertook her eurythmy training with Elena Zuccoli, in Dornach, Switzerland. After an internship as a stage artist with Else Klink in Stuttgart, she was a member of the eurythmy ensemble at the Goetheanum in Dornach from 1987- 1999, and she has maintained many independent artistic projects since. Additionally, Ulla has been a teacher at the Eruythmeum Zuccoli since 1988. She has completed individual study courses with many accomplished eurythmists, including Elisabeth Day, Steven Koconda, Lili Reinitzer and Erna Ruegger, and has served as an advisor and coach in Selbstmanagement von Kompetenzen nach ipf-Q. In November 2007, Ulla began a praxis-orientated study program leading to a Master of Education at the University Plymouth (UK).
	Renate Nisch	Born in Mexico, Renate earned her eurythmy degree at the Haag, Netherlands. She has been teaching eurythmy in Brazil ever since, leading professional eurythmy trainings and as well teaching children. For many years, Renate was a member of Grupo de Euritmia de São Paolo, and she studied therapeutic eurythmy 2002- 2004.
	Margrethe Solstad	Leader of the Section for Eurythmy, Speech and Music at the Goetheaum, CH