33. Eurythmy Performance

It is strange: one could recently read in a particularly laudatory review about contemporary stage and recitation speaking that someone has recently succeeded, has succeeded with language, in presenting something in such a way that one no longer noticed the rhythm and rhyme and so on. So they particularly praised the fact that the person in question was especially successful at killing the poetry in the prose. Today, this is considered particularly outstanding. But this is something that is quite characteristic of an unartistic age. Something that is really looking for artistic means must be introduced. We have to go back to recitation and declamation in rhythm, we have to achieve more and more eurythmy even in speaking. And in many other ways, eurythmy will be able to lead us back to a truly artistic experience, which is often very far removed from our present time, more than most people actually realize. This is about the artistic element of eurythmy.