41. Eurythmy Performance
You are able to do this, dear attendees, because the lawful connection that exists between what is revealed in audible speech and the whole being of the human being can indeed be found, but only if one delves deeper into what I would like to call here: Goethe's view of art, Goethe's artistic attitude. The person who, to use this Goethean expression, can use sensuous-supersensuous observation to place himself in the essence of the human form and the movements that are inherent in the human form as an organism, can know that the organization of the larynx, and how this organization is connected with neighboring organs, contains, so to speak, a repetition of everything that is present in the other organs of the whole human being, so that this organization tends towards the movements.
Cite:
GA 277b/1920-01-18/p006 · edition English