Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-29/p021 ·1923-07-29 · 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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But anyone who can immerse themselves in the whole mystery, I would say, of human nature on the one hand and in all the possibilities of artistic expression on the other, must also sense the potential for development that lies precisely in this art of eurythmy, which truly makes use of the human being themselves. Namely, this art makes use of the human being in their totality, in their most expressive essence as an instrument — not external instruments, or not only, I would say, as an accompanying instrument in the mimetic arts, but it makes use of the human being in their most expressive essence, the whole human being as an instrument. One must actually feel this when considering its potential for development: how this art is predisposed to develop further and further, so that it can truly appear as an art in the world one day — now it is only in its infancy, perhaps only in the attempt of a beginning — but how it will be able to develop in the sense of an art that will be able to stand fully justified, even summarizing the other, older arts.

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