Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener. — 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
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. — 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
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in… — 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… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the… — 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… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders. — 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… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be… — 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
