61. Eurythmy Performance

Therefore, when reciting and declaiming eurythmy, one must fall back on the good old forms of reciting and declaiming, so that what today's unartistic times as the main thing, where one says that he recites well who inwardly emphasizes the feeling that lies in the word, but who actually only looks at the prose content of the poetry and only reproduces the prose content of a poem in this way. Rather, one must be mindful of what real artists meant, for example, Goethe, when he himself rehearsed his dramas with the individual actors with a baton like a conductor, in order to orient his actors' speech towards the iambic foot. We must go back to the rhythm, the beat, the formal, formal side of what is truly artistic and forms the basis of poetry. Otherwise we would not be able to cope with recitation, which should go hand in hand with eurythmy. — Musical accompaniment should also accompany our eurythmy.