Address on Eurythmy

The fact that the movement of the arms and hands in particular come into consideration is simply because these are the most expressive movements that can be performed with the arms and hands, the ones most similar to speech and singing. It is important to bear in mind that this visible language is something that is naturally brought out of the human organism in a healthy way. Therefore, it does not show a particular understanding of eurythmy when people repeatedly say that the human face should be made much more mobile and expressive than our eurythmists do. That would be like making faces while speaking normally. For what we are accustomed to expressing in facial gestures does not belong in the line of moving language, visible language, as it appears in eurythmy.