Eurythmy Performance

GA 277c/1922-11-05/p007 ·1922-11-05 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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What is expressed through gestural movements – especially those of the most expressive human organs, the arms and hands, but also the whole person and groups of people – is a truly visible language. What we otherwise have as mimicry, pantomime, or dance could be said to relate to this eurythmic art of movement in the same way that the inarticulate babbling of a child relates to trained spoken language or trained singing. For in fact, the movements that are performed here as eurythmic movements are carefully extracted from the human organism.

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