Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-02-11/p008 ·1923-02-11 · 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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When we watch a somewhat more lively person speaking, we find that, unless they have been trained not to do so, they accompany their speech with all kinds of gestures. We see gestures used for affirmation, we see gestures used for negation, we see gestures used when this or that feeling comes into play, when this or that feeling accompanies the content of our speech, and when we want to indicate this feeling in an even more expressive way than through the nuances of language itself. Through these ordinary gestures, which are also used in the art of mimicry, one actually only indicates what permeates language in terms of emotional or volitional impulses.

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