53. Eurythmy Performance

Now I certainly do not want what is only one-sidedly thought [gap in the text] - from this point of view, eurythmy should not replace gymnastics, but only stand alongside gymnastics, so to speak, also in schools, with what is aimed for through gymnastics. The aim should be to dedicate about half of the time that is currently devoted to gymnastics to what we give in eurythmy - so half of the time would have to be devoted to eurythmy. For eurythmy strives to ensure that every movement that a person, that a child, performs is inspired, that no movement is performed without the soul experience being incorporated into it. Just as spoken language cannot be spoken without the soul element being present everywhere in the sounds, producing the sounds themselves or configuring the connection between the sounds, and so on – the same must apply to this moving, silent language of eurythmy. Every single movement, every context of movement, in other words everything that constitutes a single movement, the articulation of movement, what the sentence is in movement, must be imbued with soul. Soul-filled experience underlies it.