Curt Sachs

The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round…

— Curt Sachs

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

— Curt Sachs

Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

— Curt Sachs

It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the…

— Curt Sachs

In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani…

— Curt Sachs

The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in…

— Curt Sachs

The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form…

— Curt Sachs

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

— Curt Sachs

In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one…

— Curt Sachs

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

— Curt Sachs

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance…

— Curt Sachs

The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

— Curt Sachs

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

— Curt Sachs

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive…

— Curt Sachs

The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the…

— Curt Sachs

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

— Curt Sachs

The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent…

— Curt Sachs

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

— Curt Sachs

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own…

— Curt Sachs

Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular…

— Curt Sachs

If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation…

— Curt Sachs

Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.

— Curt Sachs

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

— Curt Sachs

Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be…

— Curt Sachs