Address on Eurythmy

GA 277c/1922-05-07/p005 ·1922-05-07 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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Allow me to precede our attempt at a eurythmy performance with a few words, which are not intended to explain the performance itself—that would be unartistic, because art must speak for itself, and any attempt to explain it would be something thoroughly unartistic. However, what we are attempting as eurythmy has very special artistic foundations that are still unfamiliar today and makes use of artistic means of expression that are also still unfamiliar today, so that it is necessary for understanding to say something about these artistic foundations and sources and about the means of expression.

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