Eurythmy Address

On August 4, 1922, Rudolf Steiner presented the first twelve eurythmy figures, which he had developed with the English sculptor Edith Maryon (1872-1924), to the eurythmists and interested members at the Goetheanum. “At the lectern,” reports Tatiana Kisseleff, "there were two tall stands on the right and left, on which there was something covered with paper. Rudolf Steiner gave a lecture on the artistic means of the various arts [...], then moved on to eurythmy and pointed out that this art uses the expressions inherent in the human being: movement, feeling, and character, and that the artistic means of eurythmy is the whole human being. After the lecture, Rudolf Steiner stepped down from the lectern and, saying, “... in order to offer help to those who want to practice and perfect themselves in the art of eurythmy, these figurative, colored representations of individual sound forms were made,” he removed the paper, and we saw a series of cut-out, colored wooden figures."