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Now we carry out a second gesture. Try to accompany the gesture you have just made with a movement of the right hand, palm outwards, as much as possible in the direction of the foot taking the step. Now you have made a second gesture.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":102,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/278/1924-02-19/p037","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alan P. Stott","identified_edition":"AMTRP1996","book_title":"Eurythmy as Visible Singing","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA278/English/AMTRP1996/19240219p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. 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And you will easily realize that the step is the foundation of everything; it is the starting point. The movement is felt as the continuation, and must be in harmony with the foundation. And the formation establishes the whole process.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":82,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/278/1924-02-19/p040","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alan P. Stott","identified_edition":"AMTRP1996","book_title":"Eurythmy as Visible Singing","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA278/English/AMTRP1996/19240219p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. 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Just as in the gestures presenting the sounds of speech you have to feel the inner content of the sound, so here, in step, movement and formation, you have to experience the chord. This is a first element.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/278/1924-02-19/p041","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alan P. Stott","identified_edition":"AMTRP1996","book_title":"Eurythmy as Visible Singing","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA278/English/AMTRP1996/19240219p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. 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The whole gesture should be done in such a way that it can actually be seen how the left arm is led inwards towards the body, the left hand being brought to the body, and how the right hand is carried over towards the left hand as though to hold it fast [ *Hand* is probably Austrian dialect for ‘arm’. Translator's note].","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/278/1924-02-19/p042","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alan P. 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It is only when you have become convinced that there is absolutely no other way of expressing the matter that you will really have felt it. You may try as you like to find some other way of doing it; it is only when another method pleases you less than the gestures shown here that you can really be said to have realized what dwells in them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/278/1924-02-19/p043","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alan P. 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If I ask you to produce an *ah* in speech eurythmy it is really the same (in speech eurythmy) as when I asked you just now to produce a major, or a minor, triad. It is simply doing vowels.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":61,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/278/1924-02-19/p044","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alan P. Stott","identified_edition":"AMTRP1996","book_title":"Eurythmy as Visible Singing","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA278/English/AMTRP1996/19240219p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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This is the *ee*. *Ee* is always the neutral feeling of yourself between the experience of going outwards and the experience of being within—both in relation to the physical body. Thus *ee* stands between *ah* and *a* on the one side, and *o* and *oo* on the other side.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/278/1924-02-19/p045","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alan P. Stott","identified_edition":"AMTRP1996","book_title":"Eurythmy as Visible Singing","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA278/English/AMTRP1996/19240219p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. 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