13. Eurythmy Performance

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Allow me to say a few words about our performance of eurythmic art. This is all the more necessary because this demonstration is not just about something that is already complete in itself today, but rather it is just a rehearsal, or perhaps I could say it is an attempt at a rehearsal. It might be tempting to compare what is on offer today with all kinds of neighboring arts. We are fully aware that we must not compete with such neighboring arts. From their point of view, such neighboring arts have already reached a certain level of perfection today. We do not want to place something alongside it that is meant to compete with it, but rather something that is quite different, that also needs quite different artistic foundations and also /illegible word/ a different artistic ethos.

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