Eurythmy Performance

But if we move from language to the imaginations – be they musical, plastic, or pictorial – then we find the possibility of expressing what lies in language, just as lawfully as it behaves in language itself, through real visible spatial movements of the individual human limbs or of the whole human being in space. And [we] thereby obtain a truly visible language that can reveal what in audible language can only be revealed through the how, through the treatment of language. If one is able to color one sound with another in the course of speaking, if one is able to embody rhythm and melodious themes in the right way in poetically and artistically treated language, then one gradually enters into the secrets of recitation and declamation. Dr. Steiner has tried to study this over the years in order to go beyond what is sought in a prosaic manner in an unartistic age such as ours, in order to achieve this in real recitation and declamation, that is, in the treatment of what is poetically and artistically shaped out of language.