Movement is life's signature, its
own language. Every moment we breathe is filled with
pulse...rhythm. It permeates the substance we are
made of. Physical form is built out of movement come
to rest. So too our feelings, thoughts and
inspirations have gestures that are matched in the
forms we find in the world. It is one of the great
mysteries that inner experience and outer form come
from the same source.
Recognition of this connection sits
just beyond our conscious awareness. Yet, we depend
on it to make our way through life. We learn to read
the world and other people through the language of
movement... alongside the language of sound. Form -
movement - language, all "sound" the
essential nature of the world in different ways.
Eurythmy is a movement art that brings all three
together. It gives expression to the whole voice of
the human being and the world language, through
movement, color and form. When this integration takes
place through eurythmy, the spiritual nature behind
each living thing begins to have a clear voice - a
visible reality. The living mysteries that form our
body, our soul, the stars and the seas speak their
names in the gestures of language and life. Eurythmy
brings these gestures into a rich, expressive art
form.
Language
and Music as a Basis for Movement
Human sound carries
all of life within it. The earliest people understood
this truth when they developed the first names of
people, experiences and things. They knew then that a
name was not just a separate description. It was a
reenactment of the unique spiritual and physical
qualities of the wave, the tree or the snake. The
sounds chosen held the essential qualities of the
thing itself.
Though we may not
be as aware as our ancestors of this reality, it
remains true that the human voice is one of the most
remarkable of instruments. It has the capacity to
transform our inner experiences into another medium,
sound. When the sounds of language and song are
intoned, they set into motion, unique, yet invisible
gestures through the air. Artistically expressed they
reveal the specific gestures belonging to each
consonant or vowel, each musical tone or interval.
These innate forms living in sound, within our souls
and in the world become the basis for the art form of
eurythmy.
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