Eurythmy Performance

In addition to what can be seen, you have the instrumental music on the one hand, or the recitation and declamation on the other. This must be done as it is here, so that the recitation and declamation already contain a certain eurythmic quality. In this respect, eurythmy is still not widely understood today; but today we also do not understand the eurythmic quality in the imaginative aspect of language, in the imaginative aspect of singing, in the musical aspect of language in particular, and in the actual melos of singing. These things are taken far too unartistically today. That is why there are even people who say that one should emphasize the meaning of a poem as much as possible and suppress rhythm, meter, rhyme, and so on. But these things must come to the fore in true recitation and declamation. The musical and imaginative elements that can be found in language must be particularly prominent.