Eurythmy Performance

Those who speak more animatedly accompany their speech with all kinds of gestures. But these gestures, which are used in everyday life, are to our trained eurythmy what a child's babbling is to real speech. For just as speech itself is drawn out of the whole organization of the human being, just as the rest of the organism is switched off and the speech organs are switched on, so too can the speech organs be switched off and what is otherwise suppressed—the trained gesture—can be evoked in the movement of the human organism.