41. Eurythmy Performance

In our audible speech, two things flow together: thoughts, as it were, from the head, and will from the whole human being. The fact that thoughts come from the head makes our speech somewhat inartistic. For the artistic is all the more profound the less it has content of thought, the more we penetrate directly into the secrets of things, without the mediation of thought. But if we omit the element of thought from audible speech, we come more and more to understand how speech is based on the movement potentialities contained in the human vocal organ. Then we can transfer this to the mobility that exists in the whole human organism. In this way, when we bring movement and mobility into the human being to such an extent that these movements of the whole body reveal something similar to the movements of the larynx and its neighboring organs, the whole human being, or a group of people, becomes a living, moving larynx.