Eurythmy Address

When we have the stage in front of us, for example, we must be aware of everything that is happening on stage and what is to be portrayed in terms of a life that is understood in a completely different naturalistic way than what the stage can portray. The stage is a kind of relief of life, and we must arrange everything on stage in such a way that this is taken into account, that we are dealing with a relief of life. For example, we must know that it means something when an actor in a drama walks backwards to forwards. This does not mean the same thing on stage as when a person walks backwards to forwards in a room, because we have to take the whole milieu into account, we have to take the audience with us, because the work of art develops between the stage and what is happening with the audience.