52. Eurythmy Performance

In declamation and recitation, too, the main emphasis must be placed on the shaping of the language, on the formation and shaping of the sound image, on the music-like theme in the poem. Recitation and declamation will therefore be able to experience a new fertilization in eurythmy. One will again learn to understand what the artistic quality of a poem is based on; one will again understand why Schiller, for example, always had a musical theme weaving in his soul in his most important poems - without words - and why he only later strung the literal words onto the musical theme, so to speak. One will understand again why Goethe himself rehearsed his jambendramas like a conductor with a baton. An inartistic age believes such things to be something antiquated. It is precisely what is truly artistic.