33. Eurythmy Performance

And art must come into being when the human being takes themselves as a means of expression for what they experience spiritually and intellectually. That, dear assembled guests, is what I wanted to say by way of introduction. I would just like to ask the honored audience for their forbearance, as I always do before these performances; for we know that what can be called eurythmy is still only a kind of ideal, that we are only at the beginning of what eurythmy should become. But we also know what possibilities for the development of eurythmy lie in this striving for a eurythmic art that can be further and further developed, to the extent that this presentation in visible language will one day be able to present itself as a worthy, younger art alongside the older, recognized and established art forms.