59. Eurythmy Performance

Dear all, As always before these rehearsals of our eurythmic art, I would like to take the liberty today of saying a few words about the sources of this eurythmic art and about the new forms of expression in which we attempt to express that which can otherwise only be expressed artistically through song, music or the poetic word. We imagine eurythmy to be a kind of silent language. But it certainly creates an art form that could, in a certain way, open up paths that, it seems to me, are being sought today by a wide variety of artistically thinking and feeling people. It cannot be denied that a large number of our contemporaries are justifiably convinced that the old ways of artistic creation need to be renewed. Everywhere – in the fields of painting, music, and sculpture – a new formal language is being sought in a certain way.