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And the development of eurythmy is based on an intimate, sensory-supersensory knowledge of the possibilities of movement and expression of the human organism. We know that language originates from a kind of babbling, from more or less unformed sounds and sound formations. In everyday life, we always carry with us, I would say, a kind of “gestural babbling.” People who are reasonably animated, who are not fish-like in their feelings and emotions, but who have lively blood, always feel compelled to accompany what they say, what they express, with some kind of gesture. But these gestures, which then also become mimicry in a certain artistic transformation, are to what is striven for in eurythmy as a truly visible language or visible singing in the same relationship as the babbling of a child is to developed speech.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Eurythmy Performance","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-03-25","location":null,"word_count":273,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/277d/1923-03-25/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1923–1925","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA277d/English/SOL2025/19230325e01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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