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

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

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

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

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

In 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.

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."