13. Eurythmy Performance

GA 277b/1919-05-25/p013 ·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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But all that I have been able to explain in these few intimate words as the essence of this eurythmic art, I ask you to consider it in such a way that we really are at the very beginning of this art today. We are aware of all the imperfections and mistakes we ourselves have made, and we can be criticized for them. We are most certainly the strictest critics of what is offered here. But we also hope that what is only meant to be a beginning, a /illegible words/, so that from this collaboration of the artistically intended and the public, that which, if it satisfies us, /illegible] perhaps [...] /illegible words] will arise from this collaboration between the artistically intended and the public, where a perfection of a human art of movement will arise that is not a dance art but something that is intended to inspire what a person is able to reveal through the external movement of his body.

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