Eurythmy Performance

Allow me to say a few words before our eurythmy performance, not to explain eurythmy – art must speak for itself – but because this art draws on previously unknown sources. It is based on a real, visible language. To use a Goethean expression, through sensory-supersensory observation, one can discover how language and song come into being in human beings. Thus, if one studies the speech organs, the larynx and its neighboring organs, which [in a certain sense are also singing organs], one finds that the special arrangement of these organs brings about—in the sung tone, with the spoken sound—the volitional in the human being and the thoughtful in the human being; the thinking aspect of the human being through the organization of the larynx, but the volitional aspect through the whole human being.