Eurythmy Address

It should be emphasized, however, that recitation and declamation, running parallel to this visible language of eurythmy, must in turn be traced back to what they were in ages that spoke more artistically than today. Goethe himself, with his baton in hand, rehearsed his iambic dramas with his actors in the same way that a conductor rehearses operas, because he was more concerned with the artistic expression of language than with emphasizing the content of the prose. This is what we must return to, reciting and declaiming in an artistic manner. So that either the musicality of language or the pictorial-imaginative aspect of language is revealed through recitation or declamation. And that is the way we train recitation and declamation here, by returning again and again to more artistic ages than today's, through Goethe's vision.