Eurythmy Performance

As I said, on the one hand you will see what appears on stage as visible singing or visible speech, recitation and declamation. And it is precisely in the necessity that arises again for recitation and declamation that one can see how eurythmy must once again bring back a certain artistry that has been lost in today's unartistic times. Today, even though some people are already reversing this trend, recitation and declamation are mostly treated in such a way that the prosaic is emphasized, so that the main value is placed on the prose content of the poetry. This would not suit eurythmy, which can only shape the pictorial and musical elements. The point is that even in recitation and declamation, the secret eurythmy in the sound formation and in the musical element should be brought to the fore. This type of recitation, which seeks out the musical and pictorial, the formative and plastic elements of language in contrast to the prosaic content, has been developed over many years by Dr. Steiner and appears here in the accompaniment of eurythmy. Naturally, it has the same difficulties of understanding as eurythmy itself. But these are gradually being overcome.