75. Eurythmy Performance

This is some of what I have to say to you about the formation of the art of eurythmy. You will see that in this art of eurythmy, the true artistic quality that has been so sorely lost in our time comes into its own. Our time often looks at the content of a poem, not at the how of the structure, the beat, the rhythm, which is what really matters. I would like to remind you again and again how Schiller, when writing his most significant poems, did not first have the literal content in his soul, but rather a kind of indeterminate melody - no matter which words it should belong to - an inwardly moving music in the soul, and only then did the words arise.