Eurythmy Performance

One can now also go back and ask oneself: What inner movement is required when we sing this or that or say this or that? And then one comes to the conclusion that those movements which are actually converted into air movements by the larynx and its neighboring organs, i.e., which are discharged outwardly, so to speak, can also be traced in reverse as movements toward the inner human being; only in ordinary life they are suppressed. Human beings are actually inclined to accompany everything that is said to them with an inner movement. Or [they] suppress this movement, and it is precisely this suppression that then reveals itself inwardly in the empathy we feel with the world and with other people when we hear something. In the same way, we actually always want to accompany what we ourselves express verbally with movements, with gestures. We suppress these gestures because what is to be expressed is expressed through language, through spoken language.