The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.
Curt SachsAlthough the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.
Curt SachsThe dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
Curt SachsIn the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.
Curt Sachs