Eurythmy Address

Let's take another art form that is least appreciated in our time, the art of declamation and recitation. If, in the art of declamation and recitation, one behaves in the way one believes is the most natural way to speak, the most naturalistic way to emphasize, then that is the least artistic. The art of declamation and recitation is something completely different. It is about knowing how to study: which character is in the vowels, which character is in the consonants, what special mood lies in the vowel e, in the vowel a? What changes in the mere “mood” of the m? What changes in the mere a-mood of the l? And then to understand how to extend such moods, which are already present in the vocalization and consonantization, across the entire line, perhaps even across an entire monologue, so that one can say that a particular monologue could be spoken in the e mood, in the a mood, that is, in the mood that can be developed in particular with the a or the e or the l or the m.