Eurythmy Performance

This is not to say anything against these related arts. Their value should be fully recognized. However, eurythmy aims to be something other than merely mimetic art and something other than merely dance. As in mimetic art and dance, you will see moving individuals or groups of people on stage. All the movements that occur in this context relate to the art of mime in such a way that one can say: the art of mime endeavors to clarify what is being said by adding gestures to the spoken word that are more personal than spoken language can be in a civilized society. But these gestures are actually signs for what can also be expressed through spoken language. Dance, on the other hand, is an outpouring of passion, of the element of will. And it comes about because what lives in the soul according to its nature of will is transferred into movement, just as movement in general is the expression, the revelation of human will. Eurythmy should now be a real, visible language or a truly visible song in its movements, so that what lives in the soul — lives in such a way that it expresses itself in spoken language and song when the mood and occasion are right — is revealed through gestures, through movement of the human body, in individuals or in groups of people. This comes about because, as human beings develop, they initially want to express what they experience inwardly through their whole moving being.