Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1924-05-04/p007 ·1924-05-04 · 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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One would never understand the entire structure of the human hand if one were to perceive it only as something at rest. [I can move the hand to point, to grasp, to shape] when I express some kind of emotional content through the hand. For example, one can express completely felt sentences through a hand movement: someone says something, one says, just once and nothing more—and yet the sentence is fully expressed through this hand movement. And if you start from this, you can see it for the whole human organism. The human organism is not primarily something that wants to be confined to form and shape; it always wants to transition into movement. Form only has meaning if we understand it in this way: How can a certain movement arise from this form?

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