Eurythmy Performance

Eurythmy stands in the middle—but entirely within the human being—between dance-like and mimic art. Of course, this sometimes causes eurythmy to flow over into dance-like art, just as it can flow over into mimic, expressive art. But this can only happen when, for example, something particularly emotional is expressed in a poem. If someone is to be showered with hatred, for example, then the eurythmic, which is entirely within the human being, can be transferred into the dance-like. Or if one wants to pour scorn on something, if one wants to distance oneself from something, if one were to grin in speech, for example, then the eurythmic would degenerate into mere mimicry, but into incorrect mimicry. Where the eurythmic has reason to overflow into the dance-like or the mimic, the dance-like appears brutal and the mimic appears unchaste – not in themselves, that is not necessary when they unfold as arts in their own right. Just as one destroys the art of music if one wants to develop musical painting in music, so one cannot use mimicry and dance in eurythmy without becoming unchaste on the one hand and brutal on the other.