29. Eurythmy Performance

In this way an art comes into being that is imitative, I might say, but endowed with its own inner laws, the inner laws of music itself. Just as in music it is not tone painting that is the actual artistry, so in the eurythmic art it is never mimicry, pantomime, the mere facial expression that is artistic. If you see pantomime, mimicry or mime in the so-called 'humorous' part of the performance, it is only because of the imperfection of our eurythmic art. This will gradually disappear. It is not that we are seeking some momentary connection between a movement, a gesture, and what passes in the soul, but rather, all this is inwardly lawful. And in the moving gesture, as in the moving tones, lies the connection, the lawful connection of the musical, in the succession of tones.