Address on Eurythmy

When, a number of years ago, Mrs. Smits suggested that we should first create something within our movement that would spiritualize the art of dance, the question was: How could we approach this special art form today? — It is true that on such an occasion one must consider that in our time there is much in the artistic field that, I would say, is a very late product of something that goes back to times long past. One could say that in our time there are certain endeavors of which we only know the later stages, nothing of the origin. If our movement is to have greater significance, it must gain this, among other things, by connecting in some way to the origins of humanity. And so it is a matter of searching, as it were, for the sources of this art form. The most diverse artistic endeavors have actually arisen — as one becomes convinced when one goes back to the sources through occult science — when, to put it briefly, human beings express their own nature, which is initially immediate to them, in a certain way and imitate it in the physical world. This is how all artistic endeavors have arisen. Experiences that take place in the subconscious are made visible in the outer world.