Address on Eurythmy

If one wanted to describe what eurythmy means from another point of view, one could imagine the following: Consider sculpture, the art of sculpting. It depicts the resting human being, that is, the human being who is completely at rest within himself, or, in most cases, the human being who comes to rest from a movement. If one has the ability to do so, one will want to describe what is depicted in such a sculptural manner in some way using language. One will say to oneself: what a real sculpture imbued with inner life conveys is the silence of the human being. But not idle silence, rather the silence that falls upon a person after a question has been asked. Speaking in response, that is, real speaking, is something that can be transferred into the moving forms of eurythmy, just as silence, but specifically the inner silence that follows a question, can be transferred into the art of sculpture. In eurythmy, one can see, I would say, the plastic coming into motion, just as, when one understands the whole human organism, one recognizes rest as the predisposition to movement.