33. Eurythmy Performance

The eurythmic art, of which we would like to show you a sample, is based on a visible language that expresses itself in the movements of the human limbs, especially the arms and hands, which make it possible to reveal the greatest amount of soul expression through them. Thus it is a visible language, but one that is not based on arbitrariness. It does not come about in the same way as mimicry, pantomime or dance. Rather, these eurythmic forms, this visible language, come about through observing, through sensuous and supersensuous vision, what lies at the basis of human speech and song as inner movement tendencies of the speech and everything that belongs to the speech organs. Just as phonetic language and song express nothing arbitrary, so this eurythmic, visible language represents nothing arbitrary either, but something that arises entirely lawfully from the nature of the human organism.