Eurythmy is a type of performance art, pioneered by Rudolf Steiner, an Anthroposophist, in which people are encouraged to respond to hearing particular lines of poetry, and/or riffs of music, with either contorted or gymnastics-like bodily movements in a group. This behavior supposedly has therapeutical benefits.
Nowadays, this is mostly taught in the so-called "Waldorf-schools" which base their ideology of teaching around Rudolf Steiner's work and the ideology of Anthroposophy.
I have never attended a Waldorf school in my youth, and have never heard of Eurythmy before, but I have recently seen videos of this art, and immediately remembered that in my childhood, I frequently threw myself randomly into weird, contorted positions upon hearing certain parts of songs, and experiencing certain kinds of emotions, and telling my parents, that "this music/emotion feels like throwing my arms apart and standing on one leg!" so the whole thing, despite how strange it might sound, might have a basis in instinctive human behavior.
How do you think this type of performance art would have been accepted as a normal kind of self-expression by the 21st century? Would a continued Weimar Germany without the Nazis have helped?
Nowadays, this is mostly taught in the so-called "Waldorf-schools" which base their ideology of teaching around Rudolf Steiner's work and the ideology of Anthroposophy.
I have never attended a Waldorf school in my youth, and have never heard of Eurythmy before, but I have recently seen videos of this art, and immediately remembered that in my childhood, I frequently threw myself randomly into weird, contorted positions upon hearing certain parts of songs, and experiencing certain kinds of emotions, and telling my parents, that "this music/emotion feels like throwing my arms apart and standing on one leg!" so the whole thing, despite how strange it might sound, might have a basis in instinctive human behavior.
How do you think this type of performance art would have been accepted as a normal kind of self-expression by the 21st century? Would a continued Weimar Germany without the Nazis have helped?
