41. Eurythmy Performance

GA 277b/1920-01-18/p005 ·1920-01-18 · 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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Above all, what you will see on stage is a silent language, a language whose medium is the moving human being himself. You will see movements that are executed by the human limbs, that are executed by the fact that the human being executes movements in space, by the mutual positions of people in groups and so on and so forth. Now the question is how these movements can become a real language and then an artfully designed language.

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