53. Eurythmy Performance

GA 277b/1920-03-27/p011 ·1920-03-27 · 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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But we must speak the truth, and we must not shrink back, nor allow ourselves to be held back, from actually putting into practice that which concerns people more. Even if it means creating many prejudices in order to get used to what has become so ingrained over long periods of time in our pedagogical art and also in our education and development of the people, just like ordinary physiological gymnastics. This physiological gymnastics is based essentially on the fact that it starts from the human body and that it brings the human body into such movements, postures and manipulations that correspond to physiology and its demands.

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