45. Eurythmy Performance

GA 277c/1921-08-14/p014 ·1921-08-14 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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But just as man loses himself in the spiritual when speaking or singing, so he loses himself in the natural when he passes over into pantomime and dance. Here too the aesthetic conscience ceases. And something occurs that ultimately, when pantomime is worked out more and more to one side [to a certain perfection], makes it appear as if the person is being pulled by wires, thus being incorporated into an inhuman or extra-human system.

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