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

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

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

The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."

The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.

The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.