Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-22/p024 ·1923-07-22 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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In eurythmic art, one encounters a new kind of art that makes even more use of the human being itself as an instrument than the art of mime. And since human beings already contain within themselves all the secrets of the world, like a microcosm in relation to the macrocosm, we can safely say – even though we must still ask our esteemed audience for their indulgence before every eurythmy performance – that we are our own strictest critics, knowing that we are still in the very early stages of eurythmy. but it can also be said that precisely because of the special way in which we make use of the human being, who contains all the secrets of the world within himself as a microcosm in relation to the macrocosm, we can hope that eurythmy will one day become what it cannot yet be today: a fully-fledged younger art form alongside the fully-fledged older art forms.

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