Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

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 peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

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

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

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