Eurythmy Performance

Now, one can reduce language to its elements, so to speak, in such a way that one observes—and this can initially be done quite well from a spiritual-scientific perspective—how human language, as we have it and as it is spoken now, is entirely conditioned by human nerve-sense development. Everything that the nervous-sensory development experiences flows into the formation of the breath—and through this, the breath becomes a kind of airy gesture. And just as in everyday life, when language is not enough, we supplement it with gestures, with signs, just as signs have the ability to express something, so too is the sign internalized, formed as an air gesture in the air expelled in the breath. And this air gesture then conveys what is carried by language. But in this air gesture, the thought vibrates, weaves, and flows—the thought that is the abstract expression of the soul life.