23. Address on Eurythmy

So you will have the whole human being on stage – if I may express it in such a paradoxical way – like a moving larynx. You will see speech as you are accustomed to hearing it. Therefore, one should not expect the inner movements of the soul, the emotions, passions and so on, which are expressed in poetry or music, to be portrayed by momentary gestures. That is not the case. Some people say, for example, that they do not see the facial expressions in our eurythmy. It would be a misunderstanding to want to see the facial expressions differently than one sees them in ordinary speech. Just as one does not make faces with one's face when speaking normally, one cannot have an unnatural facial expression accompany eurythmy.