Address on Eurythmy

GA 277c/1922-05-07/p006 ·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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On stage, you will see individual people and groups of people in motion. What is performed by people in movement is not gesture as gesture is usually understood; nor is it, in the usual sense, something mimetic or pantomimic, nothing dance-like, but rather eurythmy is a truly visible language, a visible language that has come about in the following way and can only be explained on the basis of these principles.

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