33. Eurythmy Performance

The third element of this eurythmy is what must be called the pedagogical-didactic element, which has already been introduced and tried out at the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, founded by Emil Molt and directed by me. We have introduced eurythmy into the Waldorf School in Stuttgart as a compulsory subject, like a form of gymnastics that is imbued with soul and spirit. It has been shown that from the earliest childhood, the pupils experience this soul-inspired gymnastics as something in which their organic laws can truly be lived out as a matter of course. This is what eurythmy can do in terms of educational didactics. And one can say: it is also an extraordinary pedagogical tool. While ordinary gymnastics, which is based entirely on physiology, only trains the body, the soul-inspired gymnastics that comes to light in eurythmy involves training the whole human being in body, soul and spirit. And the child feels that very deeply.