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• Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
• The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive…
• Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own…
• The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance…
• 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…
• In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani…

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