What is eurythmy? It is a tough one to tackle effectively without drifting into abstraction or superficiality. Who's asking, has often been my starting point.
 
Can you answer this question in less than 33 words? No prizes beyond the personal satisfaction of catching the butterfly. I will start off -
 
Eurythmy is how God created the world. It is all colour and movement and light swirling around.
 
Eurythmy is what little girls and boys are made of before their parents get hold of them.
 
Eurythmy is the whispering of the archangels to the angels.
 
And of course: eurythmy is movement that speaks and sings.
 
I promise you this is the truth.  I have not been asked this question for a good number of years. I have been proactive about it. I planned my strategy to meet the question before it was articulated. I decided that nobody would leave a single one of my classes without real experiences to wrap that question around. Try this... what did you experience? Each and every experience of eurythmy can raise the head of that question.  So I ask folk: did you notice what happened in the room just then? What happened here? What was different this time?  What brought those experiences about? 
 
What do folk say about eurythmy to me? Variations on: well, I can experience what eurythmy is, but it is difficult to talk about.  Folk move to a place where the question lives beyond the scope of language.  In some, the questioning continues as an inner dialogue, in others it curls up and sleeps.
 
Is it important to talk about these inner experiences? Is an experience that is undefined by words less self-conscious than one we can talk about?  For many, such experiences melt like dreams with the morning mist. How can we hold onto these inner experiences so that we can talk about them? One way is to say it was like this... and show the eurythmy gesture that incarnates it. My students are required to spend time reflecting and thinking about their experiences of eurythmy.  This definitely helps.  Are these experiences what we want to discuss and share in the eurythmy group?
 

Read the other questions that have been contributed to the group. If you do not have an answer, it can help to start talking about what you do know, and new insights may be called forth in others.

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