13. Eurythmy Performance

GA 277b/1919-05-25/p010 ·1919-05-25 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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In this eurythmic art nothing is an expression of a mere momentary inner soul stirring, nothing is mere gesture, nothing is mere pantomime; if you see something like that, it is only because it has not yet been fully developed. What follows on from each other in the individual movements is absolutely rooted in the laws of these successive movements themselves – as in the art of music. /[Unintelligible passage, see notes.] When two eurythmic performers [illegible word] or [two eurythmic] groups present an [identical] poem or piece of music, the difference is no greater than there is [between two performances] of Beethoven's music.

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