Address on Eurythmy

Now, the aim in these figures is that the movement is captured above all in the plastic design of the wood. The basic color is there, which is actually supposed to express the form of movement everywhere, but just as feeling flows into our spoken language, so too can feeling flow down into movement. For we do not just speak a sound, we also give the sound a feeling coloration. We can do this in eurythmy as well. And here a strong subconscious element comes into play in eurythmy. If the actor, the performer, is able to artistically incorporate this feeling into their movement, then one will also feel this feeling when one sees the eurythmic movements. Here, it is also taken into consideration that the veil that is worn should follow these feelings. So that what is used here as a second color, preferably on the veil, represents the emotional nuance for the movement. So you have a first basic color that expresses the movement itself, and a second color superimposed on it, which is preferably expressed in the veil and expresses the emotional nuance. But the eurythmic actor must have the inner strength to put this feeling into the movement, just as it makes a difference whether I say to someone: Come to me! in a commanding tone, or: Come to me! in a friendly invitation. That is the emotional nuance. So what is expressed here in the second color and then continued in the veil represents the emotional nuance of eurythmic language. And the third brings in character, the strong element of will. This only comes into eurythmy because the eurythmic actor is able to empathize with his movements and express them within himself. The head of a eurythmic actor looks completely different depending on whether he tenses the muscles on the left side of his head and leaves the right side somewhat relaxed, as is indicated here, for example, by the third color. You can observe this: the third color always indicates the element of will. Here, for example, something is tensed on the left side, and here across the mouth; here the forehead is slightly tensed, the muscles of the forehead slightly tensed. This then gives the whole an inner character, radiating from this gentle tension, because what is gently tensed here radiates throughout the whole organism. And from this movement, which is expressed by the basic color, from the emotional nuance, which is expressed by the second color, and from this element of will — the whole element is an element of will, but the will is added to it in a special way — the actual art of eurythmy is composed.