Rhythmical Movement Quotes by Curt Sachs

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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…
• 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…
• It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the…
• 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…
• The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in…
• 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…
• In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one…

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