Curt Sachs Quotes
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The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.
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The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
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The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have…
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Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
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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 the…
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It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of…
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Every dance is and gives ecstasy.
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The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they…
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The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of…
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A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.
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If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all…
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In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus…
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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.
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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…
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Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.
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The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play,…
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The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of…
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Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.
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The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.
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A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
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