Dance Quote by Curt Sachs

The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance -…

— Curt Sachs

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

— Curt Sachs

Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

— Curt Sachs

It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form…

— Curt Sachs

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…

— Curt Sachs

The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state…

— Curt Sachs

The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love…

— Curt Sachs

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

— Curt Sachs

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

— Curt Sachs

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

— Curt Sachs

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

— Curt Sachs

The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

— Curt Sachs