Eurythmy Performance

The style represents, as it were, an elevation into the supersensible; the tonal language brings the supersensible closer to us as human beings. If we eurythmize at the same time, what is recited or declaimed is elevated before our eyes to style, and the style is in turn withdrawn. This is why we feel that eurythmy must be stylized as much as possible, just as we strive to bring recitation and declamation back to the good old days, when Goethe, with his baton in hand like a conductor, rehearsed his iambic dramas with his actors, thus indicating that he placed more emphasis on the treatment of language than on prosaic punctuation. Thus, in order to elevate recitation and declamation to an art form, we must return to the secrets of imaginative and musical speech formation. In this way, truly artistic recitation and declamation can be re-established in eurythmy.