Eurythmy Performance

The child, the very young child, whose inner experiences are initially chaotic, turns its gaze everywhere, allowing its soul life to play out inwardly from one physical impression to the next. What the child experiences inside is completely chaotic. This is also reflected in its external movements; they are chaotic, they are disoriented, they express what is going on in the soul of the very small child in a dreamlike, chaotic way. And when the small child encounters what it experiences in the outer world, what bubbles up chaotically in the soul is, in a sense, smoothed out by what is experienced in the outer world. Now, the child would actually like to first translate everything it experiences into movement according to its inner organization. If it has a pleasant impression, it wants to perform a kind of movement that caresses the world; if it has an unpleasant impression, it wants to perform a kind of thrust.