Eurythmy Performance

And so, ladies and gentlemen, we can see how attempts are being made to create something artistic in eurythmy using means of expression that were less accessible to humanity. Today's psychology speaks only of ideas, at most of emotional emphases. The will is a very minor chapter. But what is actually real in human beings is the will, only the formed will, not the indefinite, blind will that played a role in the philosophies of the 19th century. And one will perceive eurythmy as an aesthetic expression of human nature when one says to oneself: when we observe human beings and see how their will is expressed prosaically in the outer world via their legs and feet, we generally pay little attention to how human beings execute their movements in this case, how they form and shape their limbs. We say that one person has a beautiful gait and another a less beautiful gait. But we are so preoccupied with relating what the legs do to usefulness, to purpose, that we take the beauty of the gait, so to speak, only as an added bonus of life.