Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-01-07/p014 ·1923-01-07 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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We must move away from this again. And this kind of recitation could not be performed in eurythmy at all. [Eurythmy] could only be accompanied by [recitation] in the right way if it were taken into account that there is already an unconscious seed of eurythmy in every linguistic accompaniment, because the whole human being is always present. When he expresses himself, he suppresses the movements that want to come out of him. It is the element of will that is in language.

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