Speech and DramaSteinerBooks, 2007 M10 24 - 418 pages 19 lectures, Dornach, April 10, 1921 and September 5-23, 1924 (CW 282) This course was designed for students and professionals in the stage arts and given in the Section for the Arts of Speech and Music School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum. Rudolf Steiner begins with a fundamental and spiritually-rooted appreciation of human speech and what actually takes place during human communication. Speech is a spiritual activity as well as an art form, lending itself to real interaction with both higher spiritual worlds and the human world of social conversation. Steiner shows that speech is a powerful tool for any serious dramatist in conveying the reality of worlds, whether visible or invisible, to the individual souls in the audience. This is an essential book for anyone involved in speech work, communication arts, and many kinds of therapies. This volume is a translation from German of Sprachgestaltung und Dramatische Kunst (GA 282). |
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... Suppose you wanted to say - speaking right out of the primeval impulses of speech- that someone keeps stumbling as he walks . It would suffice to say : He stumbles over sticks . For there were certainly sticks of wood lying about in ...
... Suppose you wanted to teach someone to plough , and never took any trouble to see what the plough was like , or the field , did not even stop to consider what the ploughing is for , but instead began enquiring : ' If here is the ...
... Suppose , that is , you were to take not the slightest interest in what has to be done to the field by the plough , but were merely to ask : What method must I use to bring the pupil into a certain train of movements ? ' It sounds ...
... Suppose you had learned the sounds , but were not yet able to put them together in words . If you were then to take up Goethe's Faust , the whole book would consist for you of just these thirty - two sounds . For it contains nothing ...
... suppose . But now , what does this mean ? It means that when a man is filled with wonder at some object or event , he gives himself up to that object or event , he lets himself go . For how is the sound a made ? What does it consist in ...