52. Eurythmy Performance

Today, the understanding of recitation or declamation is by no means correct. Greater value is placed on so-called reciters or declamators who succeed in overcoming the inner, linguistically structured structure of a poem and emphasizing the prose content, the literal content. It is perceived as very internal. That is something that must be characteristic of an inartistic age. But we must return to the artistic concept of recitation and declamation. It would be impossible to accompany the eurythmics, which bring out and reveal the subtexts of a poem, as prosaically as is popular today.