---
ga: 277
title: "Report on a Eurythmy Performance"
date: 1921-03-19
location: Stuttgart
words: 186
---
# The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1920–1922

## GA 277c — 19 March 1921, Stuttgart

### 25. Report on a Eurythmy Performance

*After performances in Cologne (March 6) and Freiburg (March 15), at which Leopold van der Pals gave the speeches, a eurythmy performance took place in the Stuttgart Landestheater on the afternoon of March 19, 1921, at which Rudolf Steiner gave a speech. There are no records of this, but newspaper reports were published.*

*Newspaper report in the *Schwäbische Tagwacht* about the speech Stuttgart, March 19, 1921*

Mr. Rudolf Steiner began by explaining what eurythmy is. [...] The aim is to create a visible language because the human body reveals all the characteristics of each of its limbs, including, for example, the speech organs. One can therefore - says Steiner - represent the movement intentions of the larynx as it speaks a Goethe poem, for example. In doing so, the substantive value of poetry must be dismissed as a prejudice. The “literal”, the sense, is rejected with contempt: the formal, the rhythmic, the indeterminate musical - therein lies the true value of a poem.