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Well, it is nothing other than a kind of silent language, a real language, but one that is not arbitrarily constructed, not constructed in such a way that random gestures or pantomime have been taken to form a more complicated kind of sign language. No, that is not the case. Rather, it is a matter of creating something that is completely in the character of the human inner movements, in the sense of Goethe's view of art and Goethe's artistic attitude. So that the eurythmy you are about to see here actually uses the whole human being, indeed groups of people, as a means of expression, just as spoken language is otherwise used as a means of expression by the larynx and its neighboring organs.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"46. 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Was Sie sehen werden auf der Bühne, wird in allerlei Bewegungen bestehen, welche ausgeführt werden von den Gliedern des menschlichen Leibes selbst, Bewegungen einzelner Personen oder Bewegungen in Gruppen, die dann in einer bestimmten Beziehung stehen zu dem Verhältnisse der einzelnen Personen, die in den Gruppen sind, und so weiter. Was ist das alles, was da als Bewegung des Menschen und der Menschengruppen auftritt? Nun, das ist nichts anderes als einer Art stummer Sprache, eine wirkliche Sprache, aber eine Sprache, die nicht etwa willkürlich beschaffen ist, nicht etwa so beschaffen ist, dass man Zufallsgebärden oder Pantomimisches genommen hätte, um daraus eine kompliziertere Art von Gebärdensprache zu bilden. Nein, das ist nicht der Fall, sondern es handelt sich darum, im Sinne Goethe’scher Kunstanschauung und Goethe’scher Kunstgesinnung etwas zu schaffen, welches ganz in dem Charakter der menschlichen inneren Bewegungen - man möchte sagen selber gelegen ist. 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