24. Eurythmy Performance

In this sense, I ask you to understand what we want to develop as a kind of Gesamtkunst, because if what is organically possible for a person to move can really be artistically developed, then it is truly the case that what can be applied to it is what is so beautifully expressed in Goethe's saying as a Goethean artistic attitude: When man has reached the summit of nature, he in turn produces an entire nature, taking order, harmony, measure and meaning together, in order to finally rise to the production of the work of art. And if Goethe was of the opinion that art is a manifestation of secret natural laws that would never be revealed without it, then it must be said that if one artistically embodies and reveals what is inherent in man himself in terms of secret natural laws, then a kind of summary, a kind of synthesis of the various arts, is indeed given. In eurythmy, one can perhaps feel what is so beautifully expressed in another of Goethe's words: “When nature reveals her secrets, one feels a deep longing for her most worthy interpreter, art.” Those who want to penetrate the secrets of the human organism – that is how one could describe it – feel a certain inner yearning to artistically reshape the range of movements in the human body.