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ga: 277
title: "Notes on the Development of Eurythmy"
words: 103
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# The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1912–1918

## GA 277a — Leipzig

### Notes on the Development of Eurythmy (Leipzig, December 1913)

*Erna van Deventer, note in the galley proofs for GA 277a (1965)*

In response to my question in Leipzig in 1913 about how to express words such as melancholy and delusion, which express something more internal than surge, wave, etc., Dr. Steiner said: “For the more internal w, make a u, but with your hands feeling heavy, pulling downwards; for the other w, you have to set the internal w in motion, and then you will achieve a wave-like movement.”