Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-04-08/p011 ·1923-04-08 · 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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Well, we also accompany ourselves in other ways, especially if we are not entirely phlegmatic but more temperamental people, when we inwardly experience what we say, we also accompany what we express verbally with gestures. But one might say: with regard to these gestures, with regard to these facial expressions, one always remains at the stage of babbling. Children also begin spoken language with babbling, but babbling is gradually transformed into articulate, expressive speech. What in ordinary life is babbling with gestures is perfected and developed by eurythmy in the same way that a child's babbling develops into developed speech. So what we see in eurythmy is a truly developed language of the will.

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