75. Eurythmy Performance

Here in eurythmy, we have the opportunity - apart from the one element that is present in spoken language - to completely switch off the thought and to derive the movement directly from the whole human being, from the will, so that we have something very direct, because the means of expression is made by the human being himself, comes about in the human being himself. Incidentally, it expresses itself because the human being is the instrument of this eurythmic art and what is inherent speaks directly to the senses, as all art must speak to the senses, and everything that is soul-based passes directly into movement, so that here, under all circumstances, a union of the expressionistic with the impressionistic is created. The impression is given by everything speaking to the senses, to the eye, the expression is given by the fact that it is the inner life of the human being that is expressed in these movements. This avoids all pantomime and mere mime, and one arrives at a regularity in the movements that can be compared to the inner connection of the melodious and harmonious element in the music itself. In this way, what you will hear on the one hand as recitation and on the other as music is transposed into this visible language.