Curt Sachs Quotes

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• The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.
• The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
• 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…
• Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
• 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…
• 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…
• Every dance is and gives ecstasy.
• The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they…
• 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…
• A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.
• 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,…
• 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…
• Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.
• The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.
• A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

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