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“Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.”

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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…

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

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Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

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

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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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