The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance -… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
