40. Eurythmy Performance

Thus, in our art of recitation, we try to practise an invisible eurythmy in the way we speak, I would say, to treat language in such a way that the lines are contained in the sounds, which you would otherwise see visibly as the moving human being on the stage. But you also see, my dear audience, that it is precisely through the eurythmic, which is to be practiced here in particular, that it is necessary to go back to the elements of the artistic, which today, more or less, are given less consideration, especially in the art of the time. Sometimes today we believe we are being very artistic, but we are not artistic at all if we do not really base art on the formal as the spatial-temporal, the movement-related, if we do not take into account what but] that which also underlies prose to the fore in poetry as well and actually sets up the art of recitation as if one wanted to communicate a content, not an inner movement.