Eurythmy Alphabet - Sound O

Описание: In this video, we show you Rudolf Steiner's eurythmy gesture for the sound o.
‘O: Every rounded movement of the limbs coming together, connected with the feeling of loving embrace.’ A loving embrace with astonishment.
‘With the O, you should not only feel this closing of the circle, but also the bending. You should feel that you are forming a circle. So you should feel the circle that passes through you.’
Rudolf Steiner spoke of many ways in which the sound o can be formed. Not only with both arms, but also with the forearms, the hands, the fingers, with only one arm, for example between the hip and arm, or head and arm, but also with the legs. The toes are turned slightly outwards and the legs are bent outwards while standing on the tips of the toes.
‘The O reveals the human being as a soul.’

Rudolf Steiner: ‘The o -mood is that of embracing, of taking in oneself, of uniting with oneself. You need light colours for this.’
Here you can see Rudolf Steiner’s sketch of the eurythmy figure for the sound o.
The eurythmy figures can be used to deepen the sounds in accordance with their mood.
He specified the following colours: first for the movement (the dress) ‘reddish’, then for the feeling (the veil) ‘greenish yellow’ and finally for the character (muscle tension) ‘blue’.

Rudolf Steiner went on to say:
‘When we say O, we are faced with something spiritual that can already announce itself to us, that speaks to us through itself.’
"By making the o gesture, you form a circle with both arms. […] With the o, you step out of yourself and enclose something within yourself (o movement forward). You enclose something. […] With the o, it is important that you fall asleep while remaining awake, letting your whole being walk out into the space that you enclose with the o gesture. But now there is something else that you mean, which is also inside, so that you can feel, for example, by experiencing the o: I step up to a tree; I enclose this tree with my arms, but I myself am this tree. I have become a tree spirit, a tree soul. There is the tree; and because I myself have become a tree soul, because I have become one with the tree, I make this gesture. I step out of myself. What matters to me is in my arms. — That is the o-feeling.‘
’When he [the human being] pronounces the O, he must have the feeling, the image, that something spiritual is revealing itself before him.“

The o is an understanding stance against that which initially causes astonishment, for astonishment causes everything we perceive when we are true human beings; but the o already brings us into a more intimate relationship with that which we perceive. So that the o becomes essentially gestural when not only the human being feels himself, but also feels another thing originating from himself, or feels another being that he wants to embrace.
Now you can imagine this most purely when you, say, love a being and embrace this being with your arms; then you get the natural gesture of the o movement, the arms bent in a semicircle, embracing the other, which represent the o movement, the o gesture.
In the o, we have the gesture where the world experiences something through the human being, in that the human being perceives something else from the world. You must try to make the o gesture in such a way that you lean into the rounding from the beginning towards the end, very supple, rounding your arms from the beginning. That is the o movement in reality! Going into the rounding right from the beginning.

Literature/Source:
-Rudolf Steiner Eurythmie als sichtbare Sprache GA 279
-Eurythmie als sichtbarer Gesang GA 278
-Eurythmie - Die Offenbarung der sprechenden Seele GA 277
-Entwürfe zu den Eurythmiefiguren GA k 26
-Eurythmie - Die neue Bewegungskunst der Gegenwart tb 6420
-Tatiana Kisseleff Eurythmie Tagebuch 1914-1918

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