{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 277d/1923-04-08/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And so in eurythmy – accompanied by recitation, declamation, and music – we have before us the strongest possible form of human expression conceivable in space. One has before one something in which the soul and spirit that dwell within the human being come before the eyes of the spectator through the whole human organism. This naturally makes it necessary that when reciting or declaiming accompanied by eurythmy, one should return to the truly artistic forms of past ages, which did not yet seek, as today's unartistic prosaic pointillism, but knew what was important in recitation and declamation: speech formation, the imaginative in onomatopoeia, the tactile, the rhythmic, the harmonious. Language can only be shaped artistically to the extent that one is able to incorporate an imaginative or musical element into it. Goethe stood in front of his actors with a baton when he rehearsed his iambic dramas with them himself. He wanted to express that he was more concerned with the shaping of language than with the mere communication of content. That is why Dr. Steiner spent years striving to develop the art of recitation, which in turn focuses on the artistic aspect of speech formation. Only in this form can declamation and recitation be combined with eurythmy, with what I would call orchestral unity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Eurythmy Performance","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-08","location":null,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/277d/1923-04-08/p014","alignment_confidence":"medium","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/SOL2025/19230408e01.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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Das macht natürlich notwendig, dass nun, wenn rezitiert oder deklamiert wird in Begleitung der Eurythmie, zu den wirklich künstlerischen Formen von Zeitaltern zurückgekehrt wird, die noch nicht wie das heutige unkünstlerische, im prosaischen Pointieren oftmals die eigentliche Deklamations- und Rezitationskunst suchten, sondern die wussten, worauf es beim Rezitieren und Deklamieren ankommt, auf die Sprachgestaltung, auf das Imaginative in der Lautmalerei, auf das Taktmäßige, Rhythmische, auf das Harmonische. Die Sprache ist nur insofern künstlerisch zu gestalten, als man ihr ein imaginatives Element oder ein musikalisches Element einzuverleiben vermag. Goethe stand mit dem Taktstock vor seinen Schauspielern, wenn er ihnen seine Jambendramen selber einstudierte. Er wollte zum Ausdrucke damit bringen, dass es ihm vielmehr auf die Sprachgestaltung ankam als auf das bloße Mitteilen des Inhaltes. Daher hat sich auch Frau Doktor Steiner jahrelang bemüht, gerade diejenige Rezitationskunst, die nun wiederum auf das Künstlerische der Sprachgestaltung eingeht, zur Ausbildung zu bringen. Nur in dieser Form ist das Deklamatorische und Rezitatorische mit dem Eurythmischen zu, ich möchte sagen orchestraler Einheit zu verbinden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/277d/1923-04-08/p014"}],"english":["GA 277d/1923-04-08/p014"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":221,"en_words":216,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2087,"original_word_count":2060,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2025/19230408e01.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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